Baldur's Gate: EE - Is it still the best RPG of all time? 

I'm sad that I never really comprehended the game back then. I tried it a few times and eventually gave up when I was a kid. I think I missed out on what could've been a life-long interest. While I do like it now, it just isn't the same as discovering something when you're young.

I have beaten BG1 no less than 20 times, and I had no idea Charm could be used outside of combat.

Minsc is Rashemi. If you know anything about the lore of the Forgotten Realms, you know what he and his witch are up to. It's basically a test of manhood. The witches of Rashemi are sent on a pilgrimage of sorts once they get to a certain point in their studies, and a young beserker is tasked with guarding said witch until they complete their journey and return home. If the Witch dies, generally speaking, the berserker isn't allowed to come home- though exceptions can be made on occasion. Dynaheir and Edwin don't get along not just because personal differences- but because Thay And Rashamen share borders- And they don't get along in the least. (Rashemen trends towards Chaotic Good, while Thay trends towards Lawful Evil. There are generations of bad blood, as you would probably expect.)

I empathize with the whole "self indulgent hobby" thing, I'm so jealous of people who had friends growing up that had very similar interests. I had my gaming friends but they were all on console, and I had my music friends but none of them ever wanted to get good enough that we could actually sit down and have a real band. I do think my tastes are more fringe and unique because of it though, I definitely got into some weird games and music because I didn't have to get on Counter Strike every night, or practice Red Hot Chili Peppers songs for the battle of the bands.

Finally, someone who said that about arrows and how deadly they actually are. I've been tired of how bows and arrows are portrayed in a lot of media as being relatively weak as someone who practices traditional Archery. Thanks Strat!

HOLY SHIT I JUST REALIZED...Minsk's hamster's squeak made it into Mass Effect when you interact with the hamster in your cabin.

I like the walk towards the friendly arms inn tho. Being a lone rogue, bard or wizard going through that trail is so frigging scary. You are just a kid that has never left candlekeep basically. And everything can one shot you. Good times :)

As someone who just got into the Pathfinder games, it's amazing to see how much stuff is taken from this game. I had no idea they were so similar.

Pro tip for anyone starting a BG:1 playthrough. Get access to the protection from petrification spell. Find the map cell to the east with the basilisks and gnome mage, apply and then kill the basilisks and mage for a ton of early xp.

I will be honest. I kill Neera outright. That stupid ambush quest she drags you into is fury inucing. "Thanks for saving me. Can I join your party?" "Sure. Come over here with us. *Murder. Loot scroll or gem bag whatever she has. Boot corpse from party.* Thanks Dad!" As for burglary in this game? 19 strength half-orc fighter thief. The best burglary tool is your bare fist, the game does not treat unarmed combat as murderous armed assault. I've gone into homes and punched every man woman and child into unconsciousness then punched their drawers and storage trunks open to take their stuff. When they're unconscious they don't witness crime.

I would love another Wrath of Righteous video especially with all the updates they have given it. It is also on sale right now for anyone wanting to get it like 60% off I think.

In the original game, the cloak of Algernon has a infinite number of charms to be used on each and every creature (contrary to the cham spell, which only works on humanoids) as long as it isn't magic or breath resistant. When I was a kid, I did a "charm everything" run, where in each map, I charmed every creature I encountered. It was indeed very fun and I got to read many alternative dialogues that way.

Just played through this game for the first time ever in 2022. Definitely lives up to its legendary reputation. The hard early lesson is equip your whole party with bows and slings.

I wanted to add something else: new characters aren't bad, but they stick out due to having quests and much more voiced dialogues and banter, it's weird to play party that's half mute and half chatty, however if you play full Beamdog party, you'll actually have some fun and won't see them as so out of place. I've done such a playthrough, and it was very fun, much better than a mixed party, and I'm an OG l33t 90s fan, I very much recommend doing that sometime. Also, well, in BG2 we have much more dialogue voiced and lots of companion quests, so Beamdog NPCs won't stick out there as well

I miss the era of time where RPGs were actual, honest to God RPGs. Actual choice and consequence. Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 hearken back to that era of time I desperately crave for.

With mods it's definitely a lot better in modern day. People are making apps with built in modlists to auto deck out your game. I like to spice up the game by getting more kits. Currently playing a ranger/mage

During the candlekeep tutorial you can go in the house with the practice battles, take all the equipment from the characters inside, save, and load that save as a new game. Then you get to keep all that free equipment to start the game.

This was the first game I ever played where I could make my own character. Me and one of my friends loved it, especially when we discovered we could play with two of our own made characters on my PC and pause the game and choose what we wanted our little men to do. Some great little stories in the game, though the second game took many, many hours of my teenage life.

[15:00] Fun fact, in original BG1 this character was named Elminster, not an Old Man like in BG1:EE.

The secondary reason for melee weapons breaking all the time in BG1 is that it "encourages" the player to use ranged weapons instead (which are much better in the early game anyway). It's pretty clever game design.

The game actually gives you non cheesy ways to beat high level forced fights. It rewards exploration and you can find numerous potions and magical items in the two "empty" areas before you get to the friendly arm inn. Use your potions when you get them.

Hide in shadows was great. It was more than by chance though. Standing in a shadow made a big difference, at least at lower levels, when hiding or staying hidden successfully

Strat, you madman, you managed to slap in an arrow-to-the-knee joke when there was nary the sight of Skyrim to be seen. Glorious. For real though, I'm glad you put this out. I used to adore BG and play the hell out of it back in the day, but recently thinking back on it I pretty much couldn't remember a single thing in the game. The only thing I remembered was Viconia, and even then that's primarily because she was a popular Skyrim mod for a while lol. It's nice being reminded of all the things I loved (and hated) about the game.

Ayyy great timing!!! i literally just started playing this game two days ago, before this vid came out, for the first time. (And just found your channel/videos about a week ago - digging them) Had a bit of a learning curve even though i got into/loved pillars of eternity…. but after getting thru the first two chapters ive got the hang of it and can’t put it down! Absolutely love it, excited to go thru all the follow ups - II, iWD, planescape torment. Thank you for having such in-depth and interesting analyses on such great games. Not only giving some ppl nostalgia/replay inspo; but also introducing a bunch of ppl to games they might never stumble across otherwise!

the thing about freezing/disintegrating enemies makes me think of all the piles of ash in fallout from which I've looted complete pieces of armor and intact weapons

Do baldurs gate 2 next. I absolutely love both baldurs gate games

I have to point out, your review is very in accurate because of your assumptions about the game. As an example; at the Friendly Arm Inn there are litteraly 7 quests and 1 easter egg, with 4 instances of world building. QUESTS: One guy upstairs wannts his boots and wine from his home in beregost, beset by giant spiders One guy wants the belt from the ogre One guy upstairs on the 3rd floor lost a cloak in Cloakwood, which gets recovered in ch4 On the ground floor you can talk to the innkeep and learn he was an ex-adventuerer who cleared the keep of baddies and setup an inn, his friends went on with life. Worldbuilding. There is a noble who you can lie to to get the Golden Pantaloons, a useless item that gets imported into Baldurs Gate 2, where you get the Silver Pantaloons, before going onward to Throne of Bhall and getting the Coppeer Pantalones, then merging all 3 into the Prismatic Pantaloons that let you turn into an Adamantine Golem. There is a quest from a woman who was robbed on the road, lost her ring, you can go north of the inn on the same map and get it back. You could argue its repetative, but the dialoge is great, the writing is great, and alot of the things they do is to sell you on the idea that your playing dnd, with a dm, at a tabble. Its also meant to world build. "The Friendly Arm Inn is a boring place with 1 boring quest and nothing else" is just inaccurate.

mount and blade:warband had a simplified but similar companion mechanic. all of the companions have backstories, but they were little more than text blocks. but there were usually two potential companions who had similar skills but, due to their in game lore, wouldn't get along, and one of them would eventually leave. you could overcome this sometimes with a charisma check, but it added an element of role play in that you could tailor your party to those who fit the type of character you were playing, since your decisions would either improve or reduce your relation with certain characters

BG1 was always my favorite of the two games. I loved BG2 (not Throne of Bhaal), don't get me wrong, but there was always something more mysterious about the first one. I played it for the first time back in 1998 and was very apprehensive when the Beamdog EEs came out. I like the features that have been added like the improved map screen, highlight all, quick loot, and quick load. Things can be improved with a few tweaks and mods: * Convenient EE NPCs (Remove Beamdog NPCs) * BGEE Use classic movies * LeUI BG1 EE * and CDTweaks Also, avoid Siege of Dragonspear like the plague. It doesn't fit the story and game at all and it has no bearing on BG2 whatsoever.

I am running a Baldur's gate 1 campaign with my wife. The lore tidbits were very helpful, thank you!

Man, Strat. I REALLY appreciate your emphasis on actually ROLE-PLAYING the games you review, your character voices are a nice touch at times as well! For real though, I've seen I don't know how many RPG game videos and reviews that don't seem to get into the roleplay themselves, which in turn impacts their review because they aren't fully engaging with the systems like you HAVE TO DO with DnD and other Pen and Paper tabletops of ye olden times. Watching your videos reminded me to stop trying so hard to beat the game and actually remember to use my imagination a little bit and PLAY THE GAME. So thank you for that, buddy ol pal, it's much appreciated and a breast of fresh air!

I really like these long videos on CRPG's, because there aren't many to go around. And yes I would 100000% want another Wrath of the Righteous video from you given that it's my favorite post kickstarter rennaisance of CRPG's.

Never played the EE's. However, the original BG and BG2 are some of the best RPG's ever. So many things to do, particularly in BG2, outside of the main quests

STRAT-EDGY Do Neverwinter Nights next please. It is like Baldur's Gate but with 3D Graffics. And a sequel to Baldur's Gate.

Having just read the novels and not having played the game yet, I see the names Jaheira and Khalid. UHOH

Played it and the second one all the way through first time in 2020. It rules, played 400 hours per game. Shit is dope

Wrath is amazing, really feels like the BG2 to kingmaker IMO

17:33 that's why you don't go to Friendly Arm at lvl 1. *Learned that very early on with BGEE.* First thing I do, is ditch Imoen (and everyone else along the way), and spend some quality time killing wolves, gibberings and bears in the first two areas. They're all slower then the PC, you can kite them. Bears especially give a nice chunk of XP. Just don't let them hit you, they're VERY LIKELY to 1 shot you. With just one character, you get XP fast for that 2nd level. Even 3rd one, if you don't mind grinding some more and sleeping a few nights in the open. Also you can do the first quest at Friendly Arm w/o even needing to meet the mage (the first house on the left past the drawbridge has a questgiver in it). Another 500-so XP. Hobgoblins in that area don't have anything ranged, which makes them easy pickings. Trick is to be able to use a ranged weapon and have a lot of arrows/bolts/darts whatever. And avoid fighting kobolds (they usually pack bows) unless you can get the jump on them. Once you're at level 2 or 3, that mage is a breeze to kill 1 on 1. You can even cheese him out, there's a couple of houses you can go in-out of whenever he's about to cast a spell, but usually I don't have to, I just rain arrows at him and disrupt his spellcasting. I don't even make a party until I'm level 3. I'm soloing the first two levels. Because you're right, getting one-shot by a random spell or hit at lvl 1 is NOT fun. And having a party leech away that critical early XP is frustrating as fuck. Honestly the game itself should start with the PC at level 3, IMO. Those early assassins in Candlekeep should give you way more XP when you kill them. You don't really lose much of the 'beginner experience', starting at 3 instead of 1. And you can actually take an odd hit or two.

I found this game around 18 when I was looking for new DnD video games. I'd played the Gold Box series as a kid, and low and behold, SSI was making a new PoR! There was also an ad for a game called Galdur's Gate coming out first, from a team of 13 or 14 people named Bioware. I bought it and expected very little. Then I was hooked. I didn't get bored, and must've spent 150 hours on my first playthrough. Oh, to get the command line you had to edit the .ini file in the original btw. I believe it was just setting a value to = 1. Or 0, I forget now. You mentioned being able to do a lot in the game, especially for it's time, but one thing you didn't mention was the Basilisks. Those things had me carrying party members back to cities so many bloody times it was ruining the game. Then I remembered a scene from "Clash of the Titans" where Pericles (or Theseus, I forget which) used the silver shield to reflect the Medusa's gaze back at her. So I equipped everyone in my party with a mirror, and what do you know, the gazes were reflected back and the buggers turned into statues. Yep, they thought the encounter through well enough to have the gaze reflect off the mirrors, assuming you weren't looking because you were smart enough to use mirrors in one of your hands, and "Gaze Reflected" would actually show as the result of an action, then the Basilisk's save, and whelp, it certainly made that encounter much, much easier. Flesh to Stone was also a 4rth level Cleric spell as well, so unless you were level 4 and had a scroll or were level 7 and had it memorized, you were trekking back to a temple if you didn't have that option available. Or loading a save. I heard in the new version it's a level 1 or 2 spell which is crazy cheesy, but whatever. I guess expecting people to think through the encounter is too much? I remember Bioware being *INCREDIBLY* cool back then as well. They used my old message board nickname as a character in _"Throne of Bhaal,"_ along with a bunch of other regular posters like "Gromnir", "Hrothgar Firehammer", Detry Greyhiam and a few others. Heh, I got to be an annoying yet unkillable imp. Go figure. We begged for horses so badly because of the damn wooded areas you mentioned, where there were few areas of interest, MMO style fetch quests and just that slow drag of levels 1-3. They didn't give us horses (or pointy hats), but they did invite us to GenCon in 2001 where they were showing off Neverwinter Nights, so that was cool. Lol, I thought Milwaukee was like _"Happy Days,"_ but I'll be darned it was a real city of just over 1m people. I ended up meeting a booth girl, moving her back to the East Coast, but that's a story for another day... Back to BG1. I remember finding that level 1 ring of wizardry in my 2nd playthrough. Oh my word did that extra level 1 spell help immensely. It was also on 1 pixel which could barely be seen if you went over it on a 14" CRT. 1 bloody pixel. Under a tree! Ugh. There were so many Easter Eggs in that game it is ridiculous. You also left out bumping into Drizzt. You could fight him, and if you won get his armor and 2 scimitars along with his Boots of Speed. Only one scimitar was labled btw. I believe it was Twinkle, and Icingdeath was listed as a +3 Frostbrand/Sword of Frost. Or, you could pickpocket him and get Twinkle in which case he isn't hostile to you in BG 2. I suppose that's enough rambling from me. Great vid and keep them coming!

Jim Cummings has done so much voice acting in video games, always a treat to hear him.

Baldur's Gate is one of those games that is so good, as soon as I see a video on it, I just want to go back and play it again.

This was the second in the series I played while waiting for throne of Bhaal. Irenicus's dungeon was such a good intro to the series, but 1 had to happen so 2 could really shine.

My experience with BGEE: walking into a room full of basilisks without any way to counter or stealthy pass them, had to sacrifice all my companions to pass my protagonist through them and then gave up one the game with my character completely alone

Still haven't beaten Baldur's Gate 2, but Ive beaten Bg1 EE like 7 times with my cousin. I loved the multiplayer additon and even though it wasn't perfect, It enhanced my enjoyment of the game 10 fold.

1:08:55 the teleporting spider bit gets me every time

A new video? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the world, localized entirely within my timezone?! May i see it?!

I was a Baldur's Gate, then Fallout, baby. God, I miss those days so hard. I basically start a new Baldur's Gate (1) playthrough every other Fall - and a new Fallout playthrough every other Spring.

Just started playing through BG now. Getting real drunk so I don't remember any spoilers. If anyone needs any convincing to play this, if you get caught stealing in the tutorial town you can call the guard a bald virgin before he kills you.

I've spent the summer playing _all_ of BG I and II (essentially every possible quest + a lot of great mods). The age definitely shows, but the gameplay and story still holds up. Very excited for BG III!

"side quests are not worth doing" and "I'm level 1 at Nashkel Mines" might be connected.

[18:00] It could be intentional since old school D&D somewhat expected players to use their own intelligence rather than roleplaying your character at its INT score. Death came so easy at level 1 that players tried to give themselves every possible advantage in a fight. Every character had a ranged weapon as soon as they could get one, and flaming lantern oil was a staple - so much so that later editions had rules for it. (Yes I know what edition of D&D Baldur's Gate is based on, I'm just calling anything before 3rd old school.)

Love your commentary. Best critiques on the platform. Thank you

I still play this game relentlessly, but as a nod to issues of slow leveling and pointless sidequests you brought up in your review, I mostly play the game as a solo character, complete the fastest / easiest talking (no combat required) quests, then then grab the greenstone amulet and kill sirens or potions of mirrored eyes and kill the basilisks for huge xp that's relatively safe. Then I'm usually high enough level to solo / speedrun the rest of the main quest, with occasional diversions for tomes and the best gear. I hit max level by the end of the game and usually the only tricky part is the boss battles (especially the end boss), but when you are soloing you can usually afford enough potions to cheese those fights too. I don't know that I've even played a lot of the fetch side quests. And I think I've probably forgotten about all of them that aren't directly in my regular route and/or don't relate to what gear I want for the endgame. One of these days I really should play for a set of characters I haven't played with before to learn their stories and see how they interact with other characters, but honestly, most days it just feels like an xp drain and padding out the runtime.

You may want sword coast strategems for more interesting fights in another playthrough. I use a mod to bring back the classic movies, they were just so well done the new ones struggle to capture how well they worked for setting up the story. Eg the final movie was much better in the original

The farmer's kid quest is actually a VERY good and quite basic quest design to use for newbie players after a few 'yay heroes and quests and money and things!' and let them know that, yes they might be 'important fated people' or whatnot, but they are only a small group of people and they cannot be everywhere and in time to help... some times it's too late and all they can do is bring back the body of a child and let the father bury the remains with some peace of mind that at least his son could get a good burial and he'd KNOW that his son isn't out there and lost in some scary place anymore. His son is at peace... even if that's little comfort for the overall loss of a child. I had a similar quest done for a group I DM'd for back, oh, what, 10 years ago now I think? It was of course 3.5e back then I used and the players were a bit miffed initially with the result of the quest, but after a while as we RP'd past it all and the little village of people saying thanks for at least giving some closure to the mayor whose wife had been lost for a day or two in the nearby woods. They hadn't expected her to still be alive, but they hoped, alas for naught, that she was just hiding somewhere in a cave or some such and would thusly be found. Alas not. However using this kind of poor-feeling end-result for quests TOO often can have a negative effect as well of ruining the enjoyment for players that they are 'always too late', especially if it's with an overarching villain that just keeps always escaping and going 'next time gadget!' at them - cuz that crap's just frustrating (I recommend using a minion of the Big Bad or like a Captain of it's forces or a 3rd-party force the Big Bad had influenced into causing trouble).

I remember playing Baldur's Gate for the first time at my local library. They had some older PC games installed for people to come in and play when I was in high school. I think I was one of like 3 people who took advantage of that. I really liked it, but obviously never finished it. I might have to go back for a full run.

"best" depends on what you want. I still love Baldurs Gate 2 more than any other game I can think of right now. It replaced a lot of the aimless wandering in barren countryside with more dungeons and varied city zones. And a better story.

"If you have more than 4 legs I dont fuck with you." Ive never felt more seen in my life

I love Boulder's gate 1 and 2 and icewind Dale, I'm currently doing a playthrough with my wife in which we read all the character dialogue out to each other with voices. Great time, often very funny. The added content should have just been a DLC tick box. I would have checked it but I understand needing to preserve the original history of the game.

one of the things ive always found funny is people talking about time limits on quests before the companions f off to someplace else is that you can complete around 75% of the game and beat the final boss before triggering those limits so its not a real big concern to do them unless you really want to. in the case of minsc i have never done his companion side quest, i tried it and died then i left and forgot about it. first time i played the game it felt slow, but after that i knew where to go for loot and companions so that sped things up a lot. the game never really felt long and enhanced feels like its easier to level up so still doesnt feel like a long game. probably spent 28h as my longest run just walking around trying to get 100% map explored and do everything. theres so many ways to cheese the fighting in BG 1-2. nice video ^,^

Playing BG1 and BG2 with a friend when it came out on local network over an LPT cable was the best gaming experience I've had.

For me the fact that I played first BG2 completely ruined my experience with BG1, they really extended everything in BG2.

unless it's a bug that will crash the game or lock you out remaster devs need to leave games as PURE to the original as possible and just update the visuals! period!

I binged your videos in my headphones an entire 12 hour shift. Thank you!

47:10 In a game where resurrection services exist.. sure you have to take a 3rd mortgage to afford it, but.. they do have them. could you take the kid-corpse to a priest and get his soul shoved back in his husk? maybe take him to a necromancer and have him reanimate him.. still be able to do the farm work until you can produce and raise another crotch spawn.

as a kid the original version of this game was just beyond me, I couldnt make it past the first few screens without dying and the (german) voice acting was so weird ... it still is super weird btw. later, when I found neverwinter nights and loved it, I came back to baldurs gate and yet again found it was much less accessible than nwn and I dropped it again after the friendly arm inn. and finally in 2018, I bought the EE and fell in love, its a great game, great series and I now understand why it is such a milestone and why so many people love it so much.

With mods, like EET, and especially Sword Coast Stratagems for the Ai, it's still epic 20+ years later.

BG 1, DRAGONSPEER, BG2, Planescape, IWD I loved these games. I'm trying to learn to develop games so I can make CRPGS faithful to this style one day. I absolutely love the new BG3 but I prefer this old style that Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny brought. What's amazing is these guys had no idea how to make this game when they started, they did some concept art in photoshop, started the kickstarter, and then quickly realized they have no idea how to make this kind of game outside of Beamdog's Infinity Engine and had to figure it all out again inside unity.

"I skip all the exploring and side quests" "If you do side-quests, you get trapped in a room with spiders on level one" Gee, I wonder if experience, as one might receive for doing side quests, could do anything to help here! Jokes aside though, Baldurs Gate was designed with a "mess around and find out" philosophy. The game will absolutely let you stick your nuts into the campfire if that's what floats your boat. You can try to rob Elminster, if you like. You can skip all the quests and fight encounters on level 1 when you ought to have been level 4. You can run past petrified people and tackle a basilisk encounter with zero preps or remedies. You can click a grave too often and get blowner' upper'd by some lvl 9000 cheese wizard. Half the fun of the game was in seeing where you could or couldn't mess around. That and exploration was pretty rewarding because of how much experience you need to level, the rarity of magic items or the gold to buy it and how much difference levels made in combat. Fetching a ring from a hobgoblin wasn't that exciting, but getting your hands on your first magic item paid for with the reward gold or getting access to level 2 spells because of the experience you gained was!

hey I know people praise your voice and narrative critique storytelling. but I'm noticing your spicy fun editin, so just wanted to let you know that its not going unnoticed.

I know nothing about these games but I’m watching cause you make it entertaining. I really liked your Prey video and you’re a great creator hope you’re doing well sir.

Never apologise for long videos, guy! This is excellent pre-bedtime stuff!

Great video Strat. I especially appreciate the length of your videos because I like to do this thing where I play long, entertaining videos about a game in the background while I play similar games. I don't do this with every game as sometimes the tedium with some games that videos like this take the edge off of is cleverly exploited by the game devs and is used as a game mechanic. Anyways high quality channel! I've been watching since that How to Daggerfall video (I'm very much into Daggerfall) and I'm looking forward to what you do in the future.

Just started the vid, and I now realize I caught a lucky break since I went to a school where I was able to befriend a few fellas who actually knew and were into similar video games as myself. That was back in middle school and our small crew talked about RPG's a fuck-ton because it was fun just having discussion as we hadn't been able to do so up to then.

love your thumbnails + you´re f*ckin funny, keep it up man!

41:41 In the Golden Sun duology for GBA, you could mind-read people. Also had stuff like plot points and sequel hints.

The 1st time I played the original version I didn't pause the game during combat, the wand of summoning is great for cheesing but doesn't work on the final boss I think he's a sword that heals him when he does damage. The good thing about the EE is you gain xp for learning spells and disarming traps you didn't in the original.

Came here from your blood omen video, I had just started playing BO and really enjoyed. I Love BG as well, but only ever played BG 2, number 1 is on my list! Anyway, you have a new subscriber

I played it first time in 2021 when I was 21 and finished this game again in 2022. Baldurs Gate is so good even today. Although I didn't really like Siege of Dragonspear.

wow i have never thought of hobbies as a way to be social as opposed to self indulgent...damn

Dungeon Master on the Atari 512 STE was my first foray into the new age of RPG style games, yes of course i loved BG , BG2 and other classics along the way such as Elder Scrolls 1 , Morrowind, Skyrim, Divinity Original Sin 2, Planetscape etc etc , these days i have around 5k hours in Path Of Exile and still loving that

Hey , you ever thought about a cursed Deadly Premonition DC vid? Love the video . Great job. Keep it up and keep healthy.

I want a Wrath of the Righteous video! I love Wrath of the Righteous. Such a good game. I love the different mythic paths and stories.

Sad to see these Ankheg husks being left behind. I buy that whole armor shop in Berengost selling those shells over there.

Deus Ex mankind divided had a command line, until they realised you can't charge or cheat dlc if people can just do it for free

hearing you talk about how you would "Play to a crowd of none" and simply for the joy of acting and roleplaying things out yourself had reminded me of when I was in middle and high-school. Playing Fallout, elder scrolls, hell even fucking GTA games. It was just fun you know? especially in an RPG where I had a little more freedom to think and make choices unique to my characters train of thought. but you know what? I lost that after I got a job, I would bring back the stress of whatever the fuck happened that day and I would just play games to escape, but not into a character, but into a mind numbing state just to cope until I had to clock back in. I miss those old gaming days man.

Goddamn 18yo strat-edgy was a fucking chad

You're opening comments are exactly how I felt about this game

As someone who saw the enhanced edition ending first, I got the exact same impression from both wndings. That there were tons more children of Bhaal out there. You see the other statues to the left and right snd the camera pans down to show all the other reliefs in the wall where more statues are. I'm not sure what you were missing.

Oh, yes. I remember that part when Sarevok bestowed Eliza Thornberry the power to talk to animals.

I have tried to get into this game at least 3 times. I had no idea that the reason I was having a hard time was because of the new content. I'll have to give it another try

wouldnt want our videos to be too long would we. Hey man, just fyi, the more you prepare what you want to say, the less time it takes to say it. "if you want me to speak for an hour Im ready right now, if you want me to give a 10 minute speech, Ill need a week to prepare."

To anyone watching this later - the Balur's Gate Trilogy mod is absolutely awesome. It's been made MUCH easier to install, as well.

I have been playing Baldur's Gate for almost 20 years and today is the first time i have heard of the Evermemory Ring. So many tedious magic playthroughs. So much early level struggle. For nothing! I could have enjoyed this game so much more. I feel like a fool, especially cause you know im gonna start a new playthrough tomorrow lolololololololololololol

Ancient memory, when I was a kid my dad had this game on his PC, and we didn't have an internet connection I would make full parties in LAN with "gamer names" like butterfly999 or xxxNINJAxxx and pretend I was playing online

When you said that traps are treated like claymores, thanks to the setting of the game, I was just watching for two minutes straight before realising you didn't mean the two handed sword and it was not a joke about some obscure D&D rule with zweihanders

I'm just starting this video but I remember opening that three-part sleeve with all the CDs in it and just feeling stress 😅, I might have been 14 at the time. But then I got about an hour into the game and everything clicked, and I could not put that game down no matter how many times it brutalized me. Or how difficult it was wrestling with my own adhd. I absolutely love the enhanced edition for this entire series, I even bought an extra copy for my phone. I'm about halfway through it now and I'm having a lot of fun and I like the ability to zoom in and out. I wonder how he's going to talk about one of my most beloved games...

I love this channel. A sisters of mercy reference in the last one i watched, and a skinny puppy one in this one?

Great vid. I might finally play it, the old edition with widescreen mod and bugfix patches that is. Also would love a How-to of Pathfinder: WotR!

“Every extra dollar keeps me off the stripper pole” aye aye, capm!