Originally Posted by The Red Queen
Originally Posted by Sozz
Getting Tweaks Fixes and Cheats mod is helpful when you're trying to maximize your runs, you can change things like gender/race/alignment blocks and make multiple concurrent romances possible. Of course, back in the day I would just cheat in a stack of remove curse scrolls and the belt of masculinity/femininity, and cobble it together like that.

These days I play BG on my iPad, which I love as I can just lounge around wherever. Which I guess I can with my laptop as well, but the iPad is comfier. But that does mean no mods ... I think. I have read somewhere that it is possible to mod the iOS version of the game if you have BG on a PC as well, but I've never got round to trying this. And I've only got "normal" pre-EE BG for my PC and I don't know if that makes a difference. I guess I could just buy EE for PC as well, but I've already bought the games at least four times over the years and I'm balking at a fifth! Perhaps I'll get round to experimenting one of these days, I definitely want to try to get the KotOR2 restored content mod on my iPad so if there's a similar process then that might help.

But my next run will just be vanilla BG. Well, vanilla BG EE anyway.


I run vanilla, vanilla Infinity Engine games smile It just looks amazing.
(just widescreen mod to fit my laptop, without being way too small so at 1280x800 for a 16inch).
I really dislike the EE versions of all IE games. They butchered the UI look, the snappiness, its not as sharp, etc...But I get it. People now play on pads and phone and care more for conveniences. I care more for authenticity and preservation of the hard work the devs put into these games. EE is a big middle finger to that, not even an option to keep the old look and mods do a poor job at it.

I don't believe in the "but these EE editions help get the new generation of gamers to know these games!". The new generation of gamers would be more interested in the original retro look/feel of these games than a half baked "modernized" version. Its like trying to modernized the original PS1 Tomb Raider, keep the original graphics but smooth out all the jaggies, increase the draw distance, change the UI, and sell that as an EE edition. No more charm from the original.
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Last edited by Count Turnipsome; 19/06/23 02:44 PM.
It just reminded me of the bowl of goat's milk that old Winthrop used to put outside his door every evening for the dust demons. He said the dust demons could never resist goat's milk, and that they would always drink themselves into a stupor and then be too tired to enter his room..