Game's pretty good, huh? For being the first BioWare IE title. Preceding all Dragon Ages, Planescape Torments and Mass Effects.
Yeah, I mean I see where all this stuff came from and I appreciate that BG was doing a lot of groundbreaking when it came out.
It's definitely clicking more and I'm enjoying it. Started reading the lore books last night and I probably will at least check out the expansion area before going past the point of no return. I hadn't messed around with stealth much until Baldur's Gate city where I had to infiltrate the Iron Throne HQ and I had Imeon stealth and go solo up to the top floor and get the plans and stealth back down. Was pretty fun.[/quote]
D&D is pretty good, huh? THAC0, Dice Rolls, memorizing spells, +1/2/3 enchantements etc. It all makes sense.
Haha, yeah I don't know about this yet. It's ok but I feel like everything D&D is doing gameplay-wise, Pillars of Eternity with their fake D&D did better.
It's neat seeing where Dragon Quest's coffin-dragging to church revive death mechanic comes from though!
Also in old-school D&D like this how the fuck are you supposed to even use AoE spells like Fireball since they don't differentiate between friend & foe and the enemies will rush your tanks so if you fireball the enemies your tanks are going to eat the fireball??
If you want to play the best turn-based, isometric, D&D title please buy Temple of Elemental Evil. It takes the awesome D&D rules and IE's RTwP combat, blends it, and outputs pure turn-based bliss. Heavily recommended but mind you it is 100% dungeon crawler (almost no questing/ talking IIRC but has some great puzzles).
For reference:
- Baldur's Gate = 50% talking, 50% fighting
- Icewind Dale = 10% talking, 90% fighting
- Planescape Torment = 90% talking, 10% fighting
- ToEE = Icewind Dale
Yeah, I own all the IE games on GoG because I've been wanting to play the ones I haven't yet at some point. Lore-wise, do all of these take place in the D&D universe lore? I feel like Planescape is a separate thing, right?
I'm actually more excited about BG3 now because I feel like I'd probably enjoy this D&D combat more if it was true turn-based and not all this swing, swing, swing and everyone is missing until they hit and you lose 20 HP in one attack.
Since FF14's new expansion is out in like 16 days, for now just gonna finish up BG1, World of FF (which is great), and Super Robot Wars T. After done with FF14 in a couple months will do a Planescape & BG2 run and then I'll see about playing other IE stuff after. Plus I wanna play Divinity OS1 & 2 before BG3 comes out.