I said DSA in the sense of "the P&P" and DSA:Schicksalsklinge as mentioning the first game of the Nordland-triology.
The issue with DSA is that it is not known as such outside of germany, that is why I used both the abbreviation and the written out title and the english version.
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BG1 is full of joke characters, I do not particularly like any of them. They tried to emulate the goofiness of some P&P sessions, I get that but nah.
To make that clear I played through the game, twice, and that it more than enough for a lifetime for me.
That's a bit of an exaggeration. There are some joke encounters, but I wouldn't say that characterizes the game. Even in those the humor is a lot more subdued than what passes for humor in modern games.
I later replayed it in the "enhanced edition" to for once play through the series in full and in order, I still did not enjoy the experience.
They just added so much crap to the game, in addition to all the mods they stole, its barely the same game.
Ah yes, but should I use Gem (?) or not? Am not sure TOS runs well a newer system?
It does run on modern systems, I am playing it right now. You asked about the ultimate classic experience, and that's it. Everything else changes it quite a bit.
Wish I still had my own mods which among other stuff made Semaj and Angelo real PITAs. Good times, but it's ... 23 years ago or something.
Also made a BG2 mod that changed Bhaal powers.
Don't think I will be able to recreate them; don't even remember which tools I used...
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Ah yes, but should I use Gem (?) or not? Am not sure TOS runs well a newer system?
It does run on modern systems, I am playing it right now. You asked about the ultimate classic experience, and that's it. Everything else changes it quite a bit.
Right. Was only thinking of widescreen (or its modern equivalent) mod at least. Nothing that changes the game,/original content - especially nothing EE at any rate.
The only exception would be my own old mods.
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There is also this for BG: Dungeons & Dragons Anthology.
I own this title physically, haven't seen any old-school DRM code.
Haven't tested it with GemRB yet.
Ah yes, but should I use Gem (?) or not? Am not sure TOS runs well a newer system?
It does run on modern systems, I am playing it right now. You asked about the ultimate classic experience, and that's it. Everything else changes it quite a bit.
Right. Was only thinking of widescreen (or its modern equivalent) mod at least. Nothing that changes the game,/original content - especially nothing EE at any rate.
The only exception would be my own old mods.
Don't get me wrong, I even finished EE three times, all good. But there is only one original BG experience
Even widescreen only would change it a bit. The game was designed with a very small window in mind.
Speaking of EE, will there be a rule on which version to play? Asking because I recall there being discourse (outside this site) that Baeloth is overpowered, but I always love to have him around to hear him speak since trying the EE version (though I hate everything else it changed similarly to how I hated the forced content for Bloodlines added by the Unofficial Patch in the past).
For us not in the know (anymore, not since TuTu) what is the best way to install the game nowadays for the ultimate classic BG1 experience?
Let me rephrase that. I want to play a BG game which is as faithful to AD&D 2e as possible and at the same time as close to the original game (meaning not EE).
Any mod recommendations for such a venture?
Voted Gothic 2 since I've just finished BG1 recently, and is also playing BG2 right now. I'd say that BG1 is a much more enjoyable experience than BG2 but I don't think I'd like to touch it again for a while tbh, although the fact it's relatively short (~30 hours vs 60+ hours to beat the base game of BG2 and still have ToB left to do) which makes it less a hassle to replay.
Voted Gothic 2 since I've just finished BG1 recently, and is also playing BG2 right now. I'd say that BG1 is a much more enjoyable experience than BG2 but I don't think I'd like to touch it again for a while tbh, although the fact it's relatively short (~30 hours vs 60+ hours to beat the base game of BG2 and still have ToB left to do) which makes it less a hassle to replay.
Just load an endgame save, beat him again and take a screenshot. You would still get the badge.
That's a bit of an exaggeration. There are some joke encounters, but I wouldn't say that characterizes the game. Even in those the humor is a lot more subdued than what passes for humor in modern games.
I later replayed it in the "enhanced edition" to for once play through the series in full and in order, I still did not enjoy the experience.
They just added so much crap to the game, in addition to all the mods they stole, its barely the same game.
I have the disks but I skipped a CDRom drive on my rig, I'm pretty sure I have some flying around but eh. But yeah the enhanced edition content sucks.
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Yeah well, I got that link from here, I replayed the series in 2017 and got the enhanced edition then and I do not plan to play the first one ever again tbh,
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Any rules for the difficulty? Everybody keeps talking about this TACO guy. Who is he and what does he do?
In case you are being serious, it is THAC0 and it is a mechanic best explained by someone more eloquent than me.
You can read some of that here https://baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/THAC0
Was only thinking of widescreen (or its modern equivalent) mod at least. Nothing that changes the game,/original content - especially nothing EE at any rate.
Was only thinking of widescreen (or its modern equivalent) mod at least. Nothing that changes the game,/original content - especially nothing EE at any rate.
