When did you realise that the original Baldur's Gate is on of the best cRPGs and infinitely superior to it's sequel?
For me it was when I replayed 2 and realised it was a railroaded romance sim and not a proper RPG
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you made this same thread yesterday. Also, can you go ahead and tell your discord server that this strategy is never going to work? Everybody who likes BG1 also likes BG2. You are never going to pit those fanbases against each other because it's the same exact fanbase. We all agree that BG1 and 2 are great games and that BG3 is shit.
>if you don't like my cringe romance sim you must be a larian shill
Cope
>Everybody who likes BG1 also likes BG2
False, read this
https://lilura1.blogspot.com/2020/12/Baldurs-Gate-1-vs-Baldurs-Gate-2-BG1-vs-BG2.html?m=1
>Everybody who likes BG1 also likes BG2.
BG2 sucks, man. It's proto-KOTOR. I enjoyed BG1 in spite of Bioware's terrible writing, but BG2 doubles down on it.
how is BG2 a rail-roaded romance simulator?
literally all romances require you to do a quest that you can ignore, miss or break if you kill an npc related to it
>how is CoD arm rail-roaded game?
>literally the game requires you to follow a path that you can ignore or you can get killed by the NPCs
>empty maps
>zero build variety
>boring low level combat with zero decision making
>moronic plot "hurr surr I will call myself Koveras no one will notice its the Sarevok backwards!"
>Companions could be as well custom made npc, they have zero dialogues and impact on the story
>you are either playing a good character or every guard wants to kill you, evil path is pretty much non-existant
"no"
>"no"
>evil path is pretty much non-existant
The vast empty maps is what lets evil survive in BG1 actually. You could easily go into the wilderness and camp after dropping an extinction event on Beregost or the Friendly Arm and still progress the story.
In BG2, you absolutely cannot do that because you cannot hide in Athkatla, and the railroaded story prevents you from killing the factions unlike BG1. I wished I could kill Ellesime and depopulate Sundanessalar but you couldn't, and if you try you are immeditely punished with a game over.
All RPGs are bad and not worth discussing.
Never, I have a functional brain.
>and realised it was a railroaded romance sim
Ahh, so you noticed that, too, huh? I'll add this. The people who followed that game were different to the earlier scene. It's BG2 where the roots of the cancer started. Romance shit.
As someone who likes BG1, it isn't superior to the sequel.
Certain creative and writing choices might be preferrable, there's a lot more attention to detail in BG1 and the art style is more uniform, but by and large it is inferior to the sequel.
It's the difference between Wolfenstein 3D and Doom.
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One of the best crpgs not even close, that's a troony take
I'm playing BG1 right now and I'm in cloakwood however these fricking SPIDERS literally instafreeze my characters and I have no fricking choice but to let go of my keyboard and load a previous save PRAYING that they miss that entangle spell.
Other than that, now that I'm leveling up pretty fairly the fights aren't as bad, however my MC is still missing hella fricking hits while Khalid seems to make every shot count and its sad because I think him and Jaheira are gonna leave me because I have Dorn on my team.
Phase Spiders are possibly the strongest monsters in the game. Dimension Door lets them teleport and in a game where you have low foot speed, jumping across the map is devastating. They will usually target your mages, poison them then teleport away.
Just use an invisibility potion or spell on a thief and clear that map of web traps first. That map is easy once you do that.
Im not even in Baldur's Gate yet in BG1 and im alreadt level 9 is that normal?
Seems high honestly, but maybe you cleared every possible thing you could do first.
>romance simulator
BG2 romances are convoluted as frick, you need to have a spreadsheet going to know what to say and when to say it and can lock them out for the entire playthrough easily
>BG1 superior to BG2
...no
Played it a few years ago, dropped after tutorial.
Picked it back up yesterday, got to the tavern, want to drop it again.
The game feels like some dudebros' first DnD campaign where every companion is some OC you get to talk for a whole 30 seconds until they never talk to you again and have zero development, every NPC is there to create illusion of the world not being empty with whole 2 sentences to repeat to the player, and the combat is a savescum simulator because the system was made up by dinosaurs.
Well, yeah?
That's CRPGs
Nah, BG3's world actually feels alive
Icewind Dale is more like dudebro's first campaign because the NPCs are just there to direct you toward things to kill, which is why I like it way more.
That's Bioware games, yeah.
okay so we're doing daily threads of this now, cool
>this is the hip, new full moron contrarian take
Cool, another series on Ganker that will never have decent threads ever again.
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