Originally Posted by Fox of Embers
Originally Posted by JandK
You can't go home again, as the saying goes.

I really tried, though. Wanted to play BG1EE up to BG2EE ToB - especially considering that I never played the EE of ToB.
But I just can't really get into it. Partly because having the story and most of walkthroughs memorized, partly because I dislike the mechanic side.
Even the character generation, which I found awesome 20 years ago, feel overly restrictive. Especially playing evil is so meh.

I am the person that likes to play a character that is at least partially similiar to me, so certain stuff like the over-importance of Dexterity is annoying.


But, like I said earlier, BG is a very different thing to different persons. So someone who might still enjoy BG a lot today, might just not be interested in the options that BG3 offers over BG1&2. So to them it is still fun to play and has lost nothing of its radiance.

First impressions are the most important for me.
I do not want to be told, "wait wait 20 hours in he will be GREAT!"

The first impressions I get from nearly ALL BG3's companions are bad. I did not play the game past 3 hours, not to spoil myself, but thats my limit to judge such a thing.
Having more companion options would of been great, but oh well we are stuck with this lot.
Unfortunaly, unlike past Baldurs gate games, mods cannot change that fact.

Notable exeption, "newly written" Wyl and the Bear guy (hopefully...) Still not sure who the fourth member will be...but my main gaming party will probably be :
ME, Jaheira, Mynsc and Wyl.

Last edited by Count Turnipsome; 22/07/23 04:08 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..