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*spoiler* The First time I played BG1 original

TheWiSeFooLTheWiSeFooL Member Posts: 124
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I remember taking 365 days before getting to the city of Baldurs Gate. This wasn't even including the GNOLL fortress or Durlags Tower. (The copied CD I had was glitched and could not visit the Gnoll Fortress)
I was so greedy I made sure I looted every nook and cranny and went bark and forth just to sell trash that was literally worth 1-3gold LOL

But thats where it also screwed me over. GREED for the first time just didn't pay.
This was when I met Marek and Lothander.
I wanted to LOOT Marek so I decided to SHOOT him in the back before he was able to walk away into the building.
Leaving him dead in the gutters of the city.

I wasn't able to load to a previous save because I'd overwritten it and the ones before were way too far back. So I doomed myself. Of course I could of CHEATED the antidote back into my inventory but back then I was too nooby to learn how to use CHEATS.

Because of that I missed out on a whole section of the game 'The Sea Charts' that takes you out into the sea!!! I thought DAMN!

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  • SchneidendSchneidend Member Posts: 3,190
    You can lockpick your way into the building with the Sea Charts, if I recall.
  • EudaemoniumEudaemonium Member Posts: 3,199
    I did that but the sea charts themselves (and the encounter to get them) did not spawn until I got the quest. Instead I had to fight a bunch of different people.
  • LemernisLemernis Member, Moderator Posts: 4,318
    edited February 2013
    The first time I played BG I rolled up a custom party of six, having come across a review beforehand that detailed how to do it. (And it looked neat. I figured cool, I'll do that.) So I missed out on all the NPCs. It was still great fun, though. I had found excellent custom portraits and sounds for them, and they really did take on a life of their own-just no banters.

    My main character was a half-elven Fighter/Mage (whose name I chose as a forum nick and have used ever since) that I heavily armored and he mainly wielded the bow and wands, though he would sometimes wade into melee with a long sword. I barely used his spellcasting at all, though, so the class was a bit of a disappointment due to my ignorance. (For my first BG:EE run I recreated him, but this time unarmored and casting spells in melee as a dual-wielding swordsman, and that was more like it.)
  • EudaemoniumEudaemonium Member Posts: 3,199
    @Lemernis: I did exactly the same thing with my half-elven Fighter/Mage! sadly, I haven't rolled another one since, but at least I know how to play them now.
  • redlineredline Member Posts: 296
    Eudaemonium said:

    I did that but the sea charts themselves (and the encounter to get them) did not spawn until I got the quest. Instead I had to fight a bunch of different people.

    Right, that building actually just has a no-name guard and some blink dogs until you talk to Thendas. Kinda weird.

    My first time through, I did OK mechanics-wise, but totally botched the story. Killed Rieltar, so no letter from Gorion. Believed the Elminster-ganger, so he shapeshifted off-screen and I was left confused as to who was actually alive and who wasn't. Lost all kinds of party members to the Candlekeep basilisk (not story-related, but still a rookie mistake), and then didn't end up catching on to the whole Bhaalspawn thing until Tamoko started referencing it in Chapter 7, and at that point it was less of a cool revelation and more of a source of confusion.

    I wasn't terribly good at reading between the lines in those days.
  • reedmilfamreedmilfam Member Posts: 2,808
    I'm still no good with mages. I hoard potions/spells and wands and don't use them in case I need them later. Same with spells.

    Magic is impressive, but, now, Minsc leads. Swords for everyone!
  • BigfishBigfish Member Posts: 367
    The first time I played this game I was brutally accosted and killed by bandits between the first area with Imoen and the area south of FAI.
  • KidCarnivalKidCarnival Member Posts: 3,747
    My CD5 had a scratch and I couldn't access one part of the city... one where I need to go to get the antidote after being poisoned. Of course, I had no save from before picking up that quest and since I couldn't reach Marek, I died. :|
  • EudaemoniumEudaemonium Member Posts: 3,199
    redline said:

    Eudaemonium said:

    I did that but the sea charts themselves (and the encounter to get them) did not spawn until I got the quest. Instead I had to fight a bunch of different people.

    Killed Rieltar, so no letter from Gorion. ... and then didn't end up catching on to the whole Bhaalspawn thing until Tamoko started referencing it in Chapter 7, and at that point it was less of a cool revelation and more of a source of confusion.

    I wasn't terribly good at reading between the lines in those days.
    In all fairness, Gorion's letter is *really* easy to miss unless you know it's there. I think I missed it the first time as well.
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