Wow this short really popped off! Couple updates: 1. I have in fact finished Baldur's Gate 1 EE recently (Illusionist/Fighter), however my attempts to try to play it over the years was similar to the short lol. 2. I plan on continuing through BG2 EE when I get the time. 3. The Dan voice sounds shockingly similar to mine. Thanks everyone! Have a good one.
This was me with Fallout 1&2 my love for 3,NV,4 made me want to play them but boy those games did not age well or I’m just too young and I never had pc in my life so I can’t be nostalgic about old pc rpgs
@@sirpaillasson2671 oof true. My first time on bg1 was mobile(didnt have the sense to give it an honest try on PC when it came out cuz I was uninitiated to dnd), I wasnt a munchkin then but yea that dice lottery really gets you. Even now on PC plays I know I can ee keeper it but I still cant help but reroll for like 10 min lmao
Currently do that after 2 fights on bg3 lol... Maybe if I was still unemployed I wouldnt feel the hours disappearing with little to no progress happening.
The very first time I played I didn't know you could reroll, so I accepted the first set of rolls that came up - and still managed to finish the game with a very sub optimal character.
You need to go back time to 1998. Then, understand why it was so great. For Baldur's Gate, forged a lot of the games you love today due to its greatness and still continues to this day since 1998.
I played it for the first time in 2012 and I love it it’s actually so ahead of its time especially compared to fallout where the journal is a literal piece of paper you write in that game 😭
YES. YESSSSS.YESSSSSSSS!!!! HOURS UPON HOURS on that stat roller, vision blurring, just seeking the godly stats of a hero ... And then playing the actual game the next day because you're exhausted
@Awoken, not woke 🏳️🌈⃠ To me that’s part of the fun, it genuinely is rng and you’re whole playthrough is affected because of it. I went full chaotic evil after playing on the hardest difficulty, definitely made the game more fun.
I still remember the first time I played this game in ‘01 and it blew me away. Till then I’d only really had eye of the beholder and ultima underworld as far as RPG’s went and when I discovered this I skipped school for a week
it is definitely not the game if you want instant gratification, kinda like table top dnd, you are supposed to spend an hour or two on character creation alone
I started it, because of the BG3 release and I love it (watching some gameplays), but I have a potato pc, I can't play it currently, so I decided to play the bgee then. :') I bought the game when I was 10 years old, now I plan to finish this game 10 years later. xD
I really struggled to play the game outside of Storymode...I just can't do it, I don't like the combat mechanics and I think it's just unfair in places.
Y’all do realize the full roster ain’t on the cover right? That’s what they did for the first game. They only showed a select few characters on the cover art.
I feel this. I’ve tried playing it a few times. I like everything about it but a 20 year old game with no nostalgia is just a 20 year old game with a good story. But it takes so long to get from one side of the first town to the other. The way I feel about boulders gate three being a beauty to look at and explore is probably how people felt about this game back in the day.
bruh CTRL+8, I roll 100 times and I just hit the Ctrl+8 and roll down to a reasonable number usually something under the highest natural roll I've ever seen which is a 96
Ya could just accept your roll and play the game, but no, people complain about their own need to make the game easier for themselves when they could just… Get good.
@@honey-hunterslimefanno.3257 I hate it when the game tries to force upon me garbage stats. The weakest roll is only 75. Unplayable and not fun. You will have a character worse than any of your companions and certainly worse than any named enemy. You spend several hundred hours per character in BG1 and 2. Why waste it on a character not worth playing, that cannot achieve much of anything or use decent gear with ability score requirements? D&D with second edition rules already is extremely punitive by default and a lot boils down to dice rolls. It is not a skill only game. A character with garbage stats is dead on arrival in a game with random rolls for every single encounter. Your character also is a demigod, not the weakest runt in a litter of goblins. Bad stats wouldn't even make sense from a role playing perspective. You are not an illiterate peasant who narrowly escaped the destruction of their village. You are the child of a god (Bhaal, CE with the portfolio of murder ) and one of his priestesses.
I mean it keeps balance in the game with the pace of storytelling, so you're encouraged to think of other choices past steam rolling. No DM enjoys a min maxer
@@honey-hunterslimefanno.3257 First of, wtf? You realize BG3 as a whole is almost completely random? Every encounter is resolved by random dice rolls. Sure, you decide how you tackle it, but the result of success and failure is random. BG1+2 let you roll stats and even the indie-game Solasta managed to implement it and was balanced pretty well. Every game that let's you roll dice or draw shuffled cards is practically a form of "gamble" if you call it that way. Did you even think before writing?
For DLC, I would just like extra storylines. We don’t need anything soon, as the world is so big and you can make multiple characters and have completely different playthroughs. Im nearing the end of act 1 in my solo play through so now my friend and I are getting ready to do a multiplayer on in which we play a couple nights a week. We’re gonna take it slow it and plan out how we want to play.
