The Story Of Baldur's Gate 1 - Supercut 

I remember having to put in a new cdrom each time an new chapter started. I accidentally broke the chapter 4 one and I called Interplay and they sent me a new one free of charge. How things have changed!

This is great! Thank you for the extensive recap. Never played BG1 and 2 as a kid, and now it's a little too late for me to enjoy them and disregard its age. I'll watch your BG2 recap as well. This will get me ready for BG3 in case it references the original stories.

I have played BG1 and 2a long, long time ago and have very little memory of them aside from rough outlines and vague images. This series you've made is a godsend as I would not have had the time to otherwise get back into those games just to refresh my memory. Thank you so much for making these, it's quite clear you put in an immense amount of time and effort to put these together. With BG3 release in mere 3 days, I don't think there's any place better to spend my free time than here, listening to you. Really thank you, you - and these videos - are very much appreciated!

You’re the only person I’ve here heard pronounce “Kobold” like that: “kuh-BULDZ” 😂😂😂😂

Thank you for doing this. I’ve tried playing this so many times and could never get into but. I’ve always wanted to know the story though.

I had played all the way up until I stepped foot in Baldurs Gate for the first time. I enjoyed the game, I just never got the chance to continue it again. I was enraptured by the story, and the mystery of my heritage. Baldurs Gate 3 came out, and I played it. I finally beat the game, and I had a HELL of a time doing it. However I did not go down the Dark Urge path. There were moments and references to the previous games, obviously, especially when speaking with specific characters. However there was a certain part in Act 3, and if you have beaten BG3, you know the moment I'm talking about, when my entire world shattered and I had an enormous realization about who the player character in BG1 was. After that moment, I told myself immediately, that I had to understand the story of the previous two games, and thus, here I am. I am tempted to finish my playthrough of BG1, as well as go all the way through BG2, but I just do not have the time. I am also just too interested to play Dark Urge in BG3, seeing as it now seems like it might be the 'true' story of the game. Sure, your own origin character is fun, but based on what I went through in BG1, as well as finally getting the full story of the game, it just makes sense that Dark Urge is the 'true' story.

Thank you for taking the time to put that together

Wow, what an intriguing setup. Now I want to play it!

This is so good. Thanks. And it's pleasing other people are saying the same thing to you. You deserve the praise.

Longer than I thought . Wonderful

Kobbolds?!

Ah baldur's gate EE. I played the game a lot, but somehow never could finish BG2EE. Every time i was halfway of the game, in BG2EE, i ended up wanting to restart all over and play a new BGEE playthrough for some reason.

Amazing.Thanks!

One big thing I hate, is picking a class, then having an NPC with the exact same class show up later in the game who can join your group. There is zero reason to have them in, and I feel like I missed a bunch of content, especially if they look cool! A list of 'safe' class choices would be great!

Where is the art in the thumbnail from?

BG3 is soon. Need to cach up!

I left Jaheira or Khalid killed or the wizard girl from troll fortress and would laugh when the other character moan for the dead one...

Cool even more. Thanks 😂

I just get bg2 and literaly Lost at My first enemy, at least i could watch this excelent recap 👏

Good exploit. There is a way to make enough tome to cap almost all your stats save i think it was wisdom. 1: get a stat boosting tome 2: save 3: export THAT character 4: remove a different character 5: import the character with the book. 6: transfer book to 1st exported character. 7: repeat steps 1-6 until you have enough books to cap stat 8: cap stat for each character in turn. 9: enjoy an easier time of game knowing you expolited the game.

Thank You for This !!!!

Basically, Dopplegangers are OP

Thanks for the videos, I forgot what happened, and in poe1

ty for the video

superfree comment.

What a shitty way to narrate a story within a videogame. Cutscenes of text instead of in-game dialogues.

Warm memories of playing a lvl 1 mage with exactly one spellslot, taking 5 steps outside Candlekeep and getting immediately killed by the wolf because my magic missile didn't do enough damage. 10/10 game

This game is a reason why the first thing when a character or a mysterious word is introduced in a story, I always read it backwards. No luck so far.

I know this is old, but you're actually supposed to meet Elminster again in Beregost before the friendly arm inn. That's where he tells you his name.

Thank you for making a super cut of Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2. Was playing 3 and met Jaheira with Karlach fangirling. Some mentions of Saravok and Ketheric Thorm so I knew I missed something.

I've watched all of the five parts you published, and now here is my 'like' in the supercut. Great video! I'm looking forward to the BG2 story!

I love the videos, especially this one. It brings back so many memories of my childhood playing and beating baldurs gate when I was like 10 years old. I remember beating the final battle with Sarevok as a kid by summoning a million monsters before the battle began 😂 safe to say that baldurs gate shaped my interest in video games and books moving forward and I still love this kind of stuff today (33 years old)

Used to be a cod and fortnite gamer. You opened my eyes to crpgs, I've knocked out kingmaker, wotr, dos2, wasteland 3 and poe2, on baldurs gate 3 now. You are always a source of great quality content!

I remember reading somewhere that in the beginning of the game because of the iron shortage and the iron that gets excavated being tainted, all of the weapons you buy in Nashkel have a like 20% chance of breaking on every strike to represent the tainted iron in the area. cant remember if other weapons in other cities reflect this but i read that many low level items in the beginning have a debuff on them that they break easy.

I played this back in the day and got to the final fight where I got stuck in a cinematic loop where the game would play the cinematic over and over and over... I never got to finish the last fight 😓

Thank you for your great work! May I suggest to put names of the characters you talk about somewhere in the corner of the screen along with short descriptions of who they are and cross them out at the moment they die in your narrative. That would help a lot to follow some really convoluted game plots.

Thanks for uploading this and the BG2 one as well. I really wanted to hear the stories of the first 2 games before BG3 releases.

What a wonderful game back in the day. BG 1, The swordcoast add on, and 2. Then they had a cheat app which you could use and edit the save game. I am 51 now so it was OMG....like 20 years ago.

I hate how the narration isn't synced to the on screen text. As someone who isn't native to an english speaking country, it confuses me. Anyway, great video!

Heya, its me, Imoen!

Its amazing how I remember the narration. Its been so many years. Great videos mate. Thanks for this one, it was a trip down memory lane. Cheers

Excited to watch this; I have the EE editions of BG1 & 2 on Steam but it's the UI/UX that gets me...just the way information is convyed feels awkward to me (plus I dislike AD&D) so this way I can find out some jucy lore and story!

Nashkel being the town best known for it's Country/Fantasy style bards, who sing about horse drawn wagons, crossbow slingers, and broken hearts. You can find them at the Ye Olde Orcery

Thank you for this this is helpful for me as I want to play baldurs gate 3 but tried to play the OG game and I just struggled to play with it, the UI not being well suited for me along with struggling to recognize the many spell symbols for when in combat made it awkward to use to having an abridged version of the story is super helpful for understanding the background plus some of the future characters I may encounter in the game without prior context :)

Awesome video! But the pronunciation of these names are so off, it’s funny

Awesome - just finished main story part. It's exactly the amount of depth I wanted from a recap (unlike those 10 minute ones elsewhere!). Cheers.

Take these words as a huge token of gratitude for summarizing the plot and all the job, covering not only the main game, but also the expansions. It was a pleasure to go through it, being accompanied by your calm and solid voice. Going forward to the BG II recap of yours!

Ah Mortismal Gaming. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. Appreciate the story knowledge my dude ✌️

absolutely great job sir, I will play bg2 after beating bg1 15 years ago and don't have time to replay with all the other games going on at the moment. Very useful!

i played this when i was like 12 and i'm surprised at how well i remember it. thank you for this video

Been watching all your vids. Amazing content!

Whats the name of the illustration used in the thumbnail?

BG3 was just announced for PS5, watching this too catch up on story. Thanks for taking the time too put this together. Hope to find a BG2 story breakdown as thorough as this.

Is that the soothing gruff but gentle voice of kevin Michael Richardson I hear?😲 That guy was one of the voices of my childhood!

Life is so hollow.

The game is unforgettable. the dialogues in Candlekeep's library, the atmosphere, the music and the bizarre German voice acting in Low German, Rhenish and Bavarian. But I love it :)

This is crazy. I was 6 when this game came out and I used to play it all the time - just clicking and fighting and running around. Never getting particularly far. I always thought it was so interesting. To finally understand how complicated the story is and how this game was clearly not intended for small children is so interesting. Also, makes me appreciate my teenage brother who beat this game as a minor genius lol

Well done. Played it 5 years ago, and a decade before that. Great refresher

When God of Murder gets murdered, you know the world is in trouble.

Just found this chanel, loving it great job 👍

Elminster is one of the greatest wizards created in the Forgotten Realms. He features in many of the novels in this world.

thanks for this hard to go back and play some of thses old games now do to pacing

The jump in presentation and mic quality from ye olde Mortismal to more current Mortismal is really endearing. Got on during the Pathfinder WotR times and loved your content ever since. This is perfect to get background for BG3. The Devs said something among the lines of it not being a direct sequel but that bg1&2 very much put brought the events of bg3 rolling in the years since.

Your videos have become like comfort food to me, I can put on one and just be absorbed into it. Thank you

The game of thrones references is strong in this game

Only thing wrong with BG1 is that in the remake they didnt include an option to choose the original cut scenes, which in some places are better than the remade versions.

Thank you for this Supercut! Great to remmember the main plot! :)

ahhhh, this is exactly what i was looking for 🙏🏽

Less than a week before a release of BG3 and i find this 😍 what a gem of a video enjoying it af and gonna enjoy the supercut of bg2 after this one thank you so much❤️

was the mention of Irenicus added in the EE at 28:32?

when you got to the part of Voks name spelled backwards, why did i immediately think of how imoen's name is literally neomi spelled backwards

Cheers for doing this...I've been trying really hard to play baldurs gate one because I heard that and bg2 are some of the greatest RPGs ever but it's a struggle trying to play the first...I have no idea what I'm doing..and the graphics are pretty painful 😂

Thanks...I like the lore even if I'm not going to play the game

I still have the cdroms. I never went much far in the game. I always got killed by the first fight. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing lol Thanks for bringing back memories! Awesome video 😊

Damn, Siege of Dragonspear's story feels so disappointing in comparison to the other games. Thank you for being a beacon of shining light through the forgotten, dim lit cavern that is this game.

Is that Jolee? That's pretty sweet.

25:30 you talk about eliminster and I was listening to this as I was doing something else. You made a comment that it’s weird he never gives his name but somehow you know it. He’s like the most famous dnd wizard and equivalent to Merlin

Still around the beginning of the video here 14:50 but thanks, want to get BG3 when its out but dont wanna play this lol, I got other games I need to pass

I am pretty sure the dream abilities are based on the protagonists alignment. I am playing the enhanced edition playing a Blackguard but I donate alot of gold to the temples to have a okay rep (jumping from 9 to 11 normally) and I only get the offensive powers from them. Good vid as always good sir

Great having these two videos before BG3

Just found your channel! Liked and subbed, after a few related videos came up searching for Baldur's content.

The multiplayer on GameSpy Arcade was good times for this game. Also I remember it as your first dream giving you lay on hands for some reason.

thank the Algorithm!! Been loving your content since probably right after this came out but excited to watch these in preparation for BG3!!!

The fact that people were playing this all the way back in 1998 is just insane to me.

Ah man you missed the most sijister bit where he goes "im sorry you feel that way old man!"

Damn it’s crazy to see the similarities between the the dlc and Baldurs Gate 3

Your awesome

I would love a return to Candlekeep and the greater sword coast area in a future bg game.

Where can i find the thumb art?

Whoa that takes me way back. And I only just acted watching.

Amazing! Will you make the same for BG2?

It's weird how much games have changed. I remember BG1&2 being an amazing, shiny, well-built-up experience. Looking back at it now, the graphics are aged as expected, but what I did not expect is that the story, the dramaturgy, and the storytelling tools would feel dated as well. We like to complain about "games nowadays", often rightfully so, but at the same time, they improved a lot in many aspects. I still love the memory of BG1&2, and most probably, they really were mindblowing at the time, but it's good to realize (after seeing a lot of new junk and the entire microtransaction-hellscape) how far some of the current games came.

I didn't understand any of the story because I'd kill all 'bad' guys immediately. I didn't use subtlety. I didn't even add the two P.Cs who were of evil alignment, preferring to remove their HP instead. I'd just go from area to area ending the reign of all the bad guys with any guidance coming from the cut scenes.

Good game

RU-vid jazz

But what about Dark Alliance 1&2?

the old BG1 intro was better, idk why they made the new one

Bingeing your supercuts! The most disappointing thing is that they can't make games fast enough and soon I will be all caught up ....

Can someone explain if Minsc snd Boo are in the first game? I was really interested in learning about this charecter but it seems they are not in there?

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