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I keep trying to play baldur's gate, but I have never made it out of the first village after your adoptive father's death. Ive only ever heard good things and the character interconnectedness interests me but the game is very poorly aged.

I've played divinity original sin, pillars of eternity and planescape torment. I just get through this one. I'm a pleb
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>>634334628 (OP)
I tried to play it, but there wasn't enough diversity fr fr ong
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>>634334628 (OP)
BG 1 and 2 are my all time favourites. what about it do you find poorly age? 1 is a bit slower paced and the combat is not very involved so maybe 2 would be easier to get into
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>>634334628 (OP)
You can play on story mode. I won’t tell anyone.
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>>634334628 (OP)
Create a Cavalier (Paladin) in BGEE and steamroll the game in a comfy way Anon.
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Retarded zoomer
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>>634338223
I think you meant to say Archer
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I'm playing through Divinity right now, god it's amazing how shitty the writing and world building is.
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>>634334628 (OP)
>90's baby struggles to play bg1
many such cases
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I am playing rn as well and just cleared the mines.
What I have a hard time is every time I meet a new potential companion I don’t really wanna leave anyone behind. 
Only once I met this really strong looking half orc who I wanted to take in but the others went super angry so I again left him behind.
What’s a good way to do companions quests? Does it makes sense to go back and take them or do they not level? 
(What’s the „canon“ team?)
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>>634339451
dont worry too much about it. either have a canon of 5 you like and do all the quests or just ignore them and replay the game
canon party according to the events in BG 2 would be Imoen/Minsc/Khalid/Jaheira/Dynaheir
pretty boring one
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>>634338223
This. Just get him 18/90-18/00 str and 18 for dex and con. For Paladin it's not hard to get a roll over 95 with decent str. Grab a two handed sword and have fun.
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>>634339858
>Jaheira 
yeah she seemed canon which is a shame cause I made my character a Druid and now I have two and I am thinking about tossing her for a more interesting option but gorion wanted me to hang out with her.
Can I turn her into sth else?
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>>634340341
>Can I turn her into sth else?
No, she's already a multiclass.
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>>634340341
nope. only humans can dual class. she is already a multiclass anyway. I think the game is doing a pretty damn good job at letting you pick whatever party you want or even solo though. so feel free to use someone else if you find her boring. if you are worried about having two druids I would not sweat it though. druids are incredible good in BG1 (and 2) so having two is not a bad thing at all.
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Alright then. It’s only my first run anyway and only on normal/default difficulty so it doesn’t matter too much anyway I guess
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>>634334628 (OP)
If you don't enjoy travelling in vast forests with fellow adventurers, maybe this game is simply not for you
>>634339451
Minsc and Kivan's quests are timed, so don't wait too long. Otherwise travel at your own pace.
I like the canon party mentioned above, only swap Khalid for Viccy, there is a trick to do that without killing him.
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>>634341665
bitch you weak af why are you wearing full plate?
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Baldur's Gate and RPGs in general are terrible. Bad gameplay and fucking awful cartoon superhero movie tier dialogue. Some of them are good, but most of them are liked because of complete nostalgic attachment.
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>>634341665
Sex with drow women
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BG2 was one of my favorite rpgs of all time and back then BG1 felt too dated to finish for me.
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>>634334628 (OP)
I have also tried to get into these games a few times in the past and the gameplay is just quite boring. There's not much going on and it's too slow. I feel like there must be a good story in there somewhere but it sure as hell takes too long to get to.
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>>634340341
her or any other NPC being "canon" in your party really doesn't matter one bit you know
freedom to choose your companions is there in both games
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I made Crom Faeyr and now Jaheira has a measly 19 Strength. 
There's the belt in Suldanessellar, but then I have to play all the way to after Saradush before coming back to Watcher's Keep, and I remember the end of Saradush being hard as balls with SCS.

/end blogpost
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>>634342728
just turn into an earth elemental???? why you wanna have her be strong in elf form bro
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>>634334628 (OP)
The game doesn't really pick up until you get to level 3 or so, until then you'll die way too fast
Look up a guide to find easy quests and level up a bit before going to the mines
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>>634342870
She's not even up to HLA levels yet, long story.
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>>634342870
Not him but druid forms fucking suck, specially on a druid/fighter.
You can spec her into either spears (impaler is godlike and there is a great crafteable spear later on too) or scimitars + flails so she can use belm + flail of ages
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>>634343152
ah, shame
>>634343227
>Not him but druid forms fucking suck, specially on a druid/fighter.
thats completely wrong in case of the earth elemental anon. in fact the elemental is better on a fighter/druid than a regular druid because of HLA stacking
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>>634342728
>19
Is it due to mods? I'm sure that hammer gave 25 STR to her in my playthroughs. Never played scs and similar stuff because some fights were hard enough even in vanilla.
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>>634343537
Crom Faeyr consumes 2 of the strength enhancing items you find, and I'm (stupidly?) running a melee-heavy party this time, so now there aren't enough to go around.
She does have a belt at least, the one from Adventurer's Mart.
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Crom Faeyr is a bard chad weapon. everyone else should just use the belt
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for me it's web and stinking cloud cheese
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bump
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>>634334628 (OP)
BG2 is the interesting one. BG1 is super generic, but it's well liked because it LEADS into the more interesting game, and it is "good enough".
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>>634334628 (OP)
how were able to get out of the mortuary but not the first bg village wtf
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my beautiful wife Nalia
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>>634346912
I think even Mazzy is more popular than Nalia.
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>>634348645
well, they are all wrong!
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>>634338223
I'm just going to say it, class kits have no business in BG1.
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>>634334628 (OP)
Why does he look like Billy?
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>>634349052
based and fuck beamdog
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>>634334628 (OP)
RTWP sucks. It's a horrible combat system. It died for a reason.
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>>634349284
TuTu and BGT did this a long time before Beamdog. They're garbage, but we can't blame them for everything.
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>>634334628 (OP)
>and the character interconnectedness interests me
That's BG2. BG1 has better questing with the semi-open world but it's a fucking slog that's mostly uninteresting. The dungeons I'm convinced were never actually playtested. 

You can get mods to make BG1 slightly less bland but it's not exactly "canon".
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>>634339094
Yeah. DivOS's gameplay is pretty cool, especially the interactivity with everything, but the world/characters/writing are fucking awful and it makes it difficult to give a shit about anything going on. That's the main reason I have zero interest in DivOS with BG's face stapled to it.
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>>634349052
Why?
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>>634339451
Neera, Dorn and Rasaad are Beamdog OCs with somewhat proper quests. Pretty much everyone else either have no quests, or minor fetch quests at most. Most companions just exist to fill party slots, so if you don't want them there's no loss in leaving them behind.
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>>634334628 (OP)
The Icewind Dale games offer the superior Infinity Engine experience.
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>>634350620
I forget specifics, but I think they're insanely out of balance for low level D&D.
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>>634334628 (OP)
Thank god for that.
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>>634346912
Nalia makes me angry due to her perspective of the world, so she's quite well written. Very believable.
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>>634351091
It's the kind of game you can only play if you're autistic. 
t. filtered by lizard wizards spamming hold person.
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>>634351091
Never played them. Redpill me. Are they more fun/engaging?
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>>634349052
I've played BG1 both vanilla and with BGtutu more times than I can count and honestly it makes no difference.
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>>634352062
IWD is more dungeon crawling, less story. You always make a full custom party as there are no premade NPCs. They're fun but it is a different experience to BG.
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>>634352062
IWD2 is my favorite of all the games. It has combat & story. IWD1 I had no story motivation for my actions.
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>>634334628 (OP)
Read the manual.
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Why does adventuring and exploring wilderness without a map automatically marked with of hundreds of collectables filter zoomers?
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>>634334628 (OP)
>I keep trying to play baldur's gate, but I have never made it out of the first village after your adoptive father's death.
holy fuck same, friends told me it was just like dao but it's horrible to play
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>>634357721
They've been memed into thinking they have to be "efficient" at all times, which means they can't handle time when stuff isn't happening or they're not advancing some progress bar or another.
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>>634334628 (OP)
I tried playing it and wanted to be a gray-haired old man wizard, but immediately they say I'm le so original 18 year old youth orphan whose adoptive father is murdered before his eyes, so I dropped it. I know it's a masterpiece, but I am 30 and tired of playing as meddling kids. Supposed to be a role playing game. It's as much a role playing game as super mario bros is.
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>>634358629
Fuck off theaterfag, D&D doesn't even have aging mechanics.
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>>634339094
>god it's amazing how shitty the writing and world building is.
maybe because you picked up one game out of like literally 20 in the franchise?
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>>634360279
None of them are good though.
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>>634357839
>>634334628 (OP)
https://youtu.be/tgPyY0X5jmg [Embed]
just watch this you cunts
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>>634334628 (OP)
don't post spoilers what the fuck
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>>634334628 (OP)
BG1 is a perfect game. It starts simple and quaint and slowly the layers pile on top of each other. Also unless you want to spend 10 years discovering everything you should just follow a walkthrough. I use one of the gamefaqs walkthroughs from the 90's, it's kino.
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>>634360074
>theaterfag
uh, care to elaborate? you sound like a dipshit.
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>>634360074
Yes it does. Some undead creatures and some spells age you significantly. There were rules for aging as far back as AD&D grey box.
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>>634360074
Do your two brain cells audibly rattle when you walk?
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Personally I believe the game picks up when you get past the mines and the magical items start flooding in - if you don't feel compelled by the game after the mines I would honestly not bother but it does get pretty great. Each act is better than the last.
I may like BG2 as a game more but I love BG1 more as an adventure.
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>>634343227
My brother, earth elemental is reason alone to take a druid - shit is pretty fricken good I implore you to try it one day. Take Cernd and Jaheira for a playthrough.
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Either skip BG1, or play it as a Fighter with a bow. The combat in BG1 is not enjoyable, and the maps/explorable is full of empty areas with each map maybe having 1 thing. BG2 is alot better in that regard, and you can just make a new character immediately. 2's problem, is just how archaic the UI is for tracking buffs, buffing, and all that shit.