Is Baldurs Gate 2 good? Cause I sure as shit can’t play 3 with my Potato 
Baldur’s Gate 2 is the reason there was so much hype for Baldur’s Gate 3. It’s considered one of the best western RPGs of all time and often included in the list of greatest video games of all time.
BG1 gets a lot of nostalgia shoutouts but BG2 had significantly better storytelling with a lot more actual choices to make and much more in-depth character interaction. Also, the voice lines weren’t quite as repetitive or obnoxious.
Also the plot of 1 and the way it presented itself was just… janky.
big upgrade in the visuals from BG1 to BG2
Personally I thought the overall plot from 1 was better because it kept you guessing “what is really going on” till close to the end where 2 basically told you what was happening in the opening sequence.
That’s fine, though for me, I personally don’t directly measure my story enjoyment by how much I am surprised by something.
Baldur’s Gate I and II are excellent.
Icewind Dale II is excellent.
Planescape Torment is excellent.
Neverwinter Nights is excellent.
Neverwinter Nights 2 Mask of the Betrayer is
It’s incredible, especially compared to the incredibly bland and forgettable storyline of the main game itself
Mask of the Betrayer stands among the greatest. Even the insufferable NWN UI cannot ruin it.
oh man Neverwinter Nights
it makes my cpu overheat very quickly lol
i’m waiting for winter : (Combination Space Heater and Gaming PC
It’s mid. You aren’t missing much. It’s 90% flash, 10% substance. Unless you’ve been a Minsk & Boo Stan waiting in the shadows for 25 years.
Personally I’d go steal Disco Elysium again. Or do the free-to-play class stories in Star Wars: the Old Republic. Light side Sith Warrior, and any alignment Imperial Agent are pretty awesome self-contained stories.
Wrong
A combatless game and an MMO don’t compare to infinity engine real time with pause.
BG3’s combat is terrible. D&D 5e is bad enough on tabletop, but in a video game it just does not work at all. D&D needs an incredibly skilled GM to paper over all the glaring problems (and any GM good enough to run D&D well probably knows enough to run something else instead), and just conflicts horrible with the rigid precision of a GM-less video game, nor does its dungeon-crawling resource attrition paradigm work with a fixed narrative world.
Ok, sure, I thought we were talking about BG2
LS inquisitor is pretty great too
In addition to being mid, it’s also super biggy atm. Some people have it be fine until the later acts, but our grouos has barely made any progress do to all of us experiences crashes super often
Just get a job that allows you to afford the PC hardware to run the latest games and then never turn it on because you’re too busy.
I don’t have the money nor the time to game. (I’m a student, life is pain.)
Pillars of Eternity, the pathfinder games.
Wasteland 2 and 3.
Tyrany.
Or wait a month. Buying a ps5 would be cheaper than upgrading
Tyranny was good but I thought the PoE games were too reliant on Proper Nouns to make them interesting
PoE were Kickstarter games leveraging Baldur’s Gate nostalgia, and kind of get held back by it. Tyranny is a great Obsidian-ass Obsidian game.
Tyranny is highly underrated and probably the quickest to finish old school style crpg
I really enjoyed Tyranny my only complaint is I wish there was more of it.
100+ gbs too. why won’t these modern studios fucking compress anything anymore
i need that space for my ever-growing collection of inefficient pdf ebooks and mod resources goddammit
I’m pretty sure they do tho
if you haven’t played them, baldur’s gate 3 is pretty much just divinity original sin 1/2 with the serial numbers filed on and flashier dragon age-style cutscenes
shit just cut out the middle man and play dragon age origins if you haven’t
It’s still expensive but you can get refurbished steam decks right now. They’re out of stock on the absolute cheapest, but that one is a real good deal. $350 and you’d want to add your own $50-$100 sd card.
You can also emulate a lot of consoles.
Just in case that’s in someone’s budget! Way cheaper than a gaming PC.
And I can say without a doubt it runs great on my steam deck. I don’t just mean the graphics - I prefer it over my laptop because it’s easier to see - but they also got the controller support done almost perfectly. It’s the first game I’ve enjoyed this much since Baldur’s Gate II.
Pathfinder Kingmaker or Wrath of the Righteous are probably better alternatives, since Pathfinder fixes at least some of the problems with D&D (Pathfinder 2e fixes more than 1e did, but those games are both 1e). Kingmaker at least has some dogshit brainworms (haven’t played Wrath of the Righteous so I can’t comment on its brainworms), but is probably the best CRPG I’ve ever seen apart from that problem.
WotR is about leading a war against the demons, instead of ruling a kingdom under siege, so it has fewer
.However, there is a radical centrist Lawful Neutral brained path lol
Idk about aeon being radical centrist, so much of the mythic quests are about you having people executed for, like, petty crimes and stuff and
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Eventually exiling the majority of people from the crusades because none of them are morally pure enough in your eyes.
The vibe I got from it was that it was that being lawful puts you at odds with doing good, especially when the laws are unjust.
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Even moreso in act 4 when you enter the abyss and are then tasked with punishing people based on their laws.
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For fucks sake, you get a literal devil as an advisor in act 3.
I admittedly have only played a full Azata run and like mid chapter 3 of a Lich run. Then Baldur’s Gate 3 had it’s full release lol.
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Even moreso in act 4 when you enter the abyss and are then tasked with punishing people based on their laws.
If you didn’t want to be a slave, maybe you shouldn’t have been born in demon land.
Azata’s a good one.
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The part in act 4 where you murder the slavers at the market and then grow a gigantic tree over their corpses.
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First it’s John Brown time, then you Ookami dab on the haters.
BG2 is awesome. Play BG1 first
I will!
Then play Planescape: torment and say “Hi” to my man Aoskar
Bg2 is good as is planescape torment. The UI for both are not good by today’s standards but they are both cool.
Torment has an especially good story and the combat in that game is pointless busy work anyway so just put it on low difficulty, put all your points in wisdom/charisma/int in that priority and then enjoy the story.
The icewind dale games are good if you like the tactical combat elements of this type of game. ID is all tactical combat, torment is all story, bg1/2 are a great mix of both.
I torrented the whole-ass thing because I now have too much storage but aint shit I got gonna play it, lmao
You’ll have to torrent it again after they patch more stuff
(spinning up my storage drives in anticipation)
Real talk: does it run on wine?
It runs pretty well on wine and proton for me! i5 2500k and 2070super using Heroic Games Launcher and linux Mint. 10 or so hours played and maybe 2 ctd’s is all
Nice, hate to ask but doesn’t the 2070 super bottleneck the 2500k?
Also based mintchads assemble! (although I’m thinking about switching to Debian btw)
I’m sure it does, I built this computer back in 2011 (probably actually closer to 2013 thinking about it) with a 980, a few years back the 980 died and I replaced it with whatever I could get, ended up being a 2070super. Hopefully it’ll keep limping along, I’d like to get a new mobo/cpu going at some point
I love how simple and reliable mint is, but I’ve been playing around with arch to branch out, I’ll have to check out debian!
I built this computer back in 2011 (probably actually closer to 2013 thinking about it) with a 980
The 980 was only released in 2014 though.
What is time, lol, drugs fried my brains. Checked my newegg account, late 2014-early 2015 I bought the various components.
Been playing for about 20 hours on wine 8.1 + dxvk 2.2
You just have to use the --skip-launcher option to avoid the atrocious Larian launcher
Got two crashes in that time (one from the game, one kernelspace nvidia driver crash), but otherwise it’s extremely fluid on ultra quality on a 1070ti (no lag at all). It’s fucking awesome.
You’re still in a good spot. There’s lots of great CRPGs that you might not have played available for free, cheap, or easy to 🏴☠️.
With low system requirements!
