When do YOU burn out?

revaar

When Playing through BG, when do you typically get bored/get bitten by the new character bug?

revaar

Usually when on the cusp of Durlag's Tower, that dungeon is just SOOO LONG.

ZanathKariashi

Ususally Tob....the drop quality is very apparent and I just hate how utterly linear it is, to the point I dread starting it.

redline

In Baldur's Gate. I'm the type of person who tries to play through every quest available (don't want to miss out on XP!), and the entire city is just a series of glorified fetch quests. No dungeon romps, no interesting story developments, just 9 districts of "go retrieve this thing from this person".

Mortianna

Baldur's Gate becomes very tedious with all of its "Fed-Ex" mini-quests, and I'm too much of a perfectionist to not do them, so I tend to burn out and either start over or do the TotSC content. I did play BGEE all the way through for my first game (which I really enjoyed), but I haven't done so since. I seem to be waiting for that "perfect game" so I can finish it and feel similarly satisfied. *sigh* I know, it's not very functional behavior. ^.~

Dee

I usually get to Beregost and then think "Ooh, wouldn't it be cool if I were this class..."

Tetraploid

Normally shortly after finishing Nashkel mines. By that point I've had the character long enough to start wishing I'd done something slightly differently, or had simply picked a different class. It's also the point at which I start thinking about long term party choices (I normally just head to Nashkel with the first few people I can grab), and then realise that my PC is not a particularly compatible 6th member of my ideal party. Which is silly, since I reckon you can play BG with pretty much any party combination, but there you go!

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lunar

Whenmy char dies stupidly. I tend to lose interest and start anew. I think I'm becoming more and more of a hardcore gamer. ^^

Klorox

I'm a chronic restarter. I have so many games saved right after character creation, and others I get bored of right away.

SapphireIce101

I try to take my characters all the way. I've only failed at doing so a couple of times...usually because I don't touch that game for a couple of days.

Edit: Grammar was bad.

CaptRory

I get burned out in or right before Baldur's Gate. I try to do almost everything before going there (I leave the TOSC stuff off til after i go through most of the city of Baldur's Gate) but its basily retreading everything I've already done up and down the sword coast but with more fetch quests and random buildings to explore 'cause I'm a crazy completionist.

Mordeus

Within BG1 I burn out around Cloakwood, that part is fairly tedious for me. Within BG2, it is definitely the whole Spellhold quest line. I might get up to the underdark but I always feel compelled to do all three mini dungeons and that can take a while. As for BG2:ToB, it is after leaving Saradush, I get so bored having to chase down the Five.

MERLANCE

I often finish from the start, but when I dont its usually in TOB around yaga shura time, because you gotta go to the swamp, then his fire giant caves, and thats just not a very fun area.

Kamigoroshi

Irenicus Dungeon. Thank the Elder Gods for "Dungeon-Be-Gone"!

CaptRory

@Kamigoroshi I'll agree with you there. Its not so bad occasionally but if I find myself having to do it over and over and over again for whatever reason... Blurgh. The old saw that "A game should be fun from the start, not twenty-hours in." comes to mind.


The first time you play Irenicus' Dungeons, it does a great job setting up the mood of Irenicus. His personality. The mad wizard thing. And really helps differentiate the second game's mood from the first's.

The fiftieth time its just beyond annoying

Gish

The bandit camp's always been a make or break for me. I feel like if he isn't able to face a heated battle against low level bandits without drinking potions each of his turns then its time to "see other people".

mylegbig

Looks like I'm not the only one whose interest in a character typically only lasts so long...

Lemernis

I'll get that feeling of ennui around the time I'm considering whether or not to take on Durlag's tower. It's a long dungeon crawl (a great one, but long). Because once you enter it feels to me like in for a penny, in for a pound.

In the BGT games I used to play I'd get a similar feeling around the time the party entered the Underdark.

Quartz

To anyone who said, "I take most of my Characters ALL THE WAY!" I envy you.

Like others, I have issue with all the ridiculous number of silly quests in Baldur's Gate; but what's worst for me is how many wilderness areas I tend to have left at that point as well, because I seem to be fond of picking up any NPCs I want before I do a whole heck of a lot of exploring, including someone SUPER late game like Alora or Skie. But I like to explore said areas around levels 3-5, sooooo that's kind of a problem.

Guess I'll have to find a way to deal with all that. I don't think it'd be such a problem if I didn't insist on hitting the experience point cap.

franco

I've left two parties part way through Durlag's Tower. It no longer feels like the same game there. I get no feeling of adventure just the tedium of getting through the next trapped room. I don't feel the excitement of adventure any longer. All I feel is "Let's get through the damned thing".

Also, it feels anti-climactic. Actually frustrating. If ToSC is installed and you're excited because you are getting close to finishing Sarevok, instead you have to trek through hell with no meaningful relationship to the overall story before you can finally get to the real climax of BG1.

Durlag's Tower seems like a one-off game that I feel should have been offered separately, at a reduced rate, to tide fans over while waiting for BG2.

ShadowHunter

I love the whole BG2 but after doing spellhold for the 99th time I get bored of all the riddles

Aristillius

I dont play BG that often, but when I play, I play all the way.

mylegbig

franco said:

I've left two parties part way through Durlag's Tower. It no longer feels like the same game there. I get no feeling of adventure just the tedium of getting through the next trapped room. I don't feel the excitement of adventure any longer. All I feel is "Let's get through the damned thing".

Also, it feels anti-climactic. Actually frustrating. If ToSC is installed and you're excited because you are getting close to finishing Sarevok, instead you have to trek through hell with no meaningful relationship to the overall story before you can finally get to the real climax of BG1.

Durlag's Tower seems like a one-off game that I feel should have been offered separately, at a reduced rate, to tide fans over while waiting for BG2.

After the first time, I never completed Durlag's again. It just seems completely unnecessary since it has nothing to do with the main story and more importantly, none of the items carry over to BG 2.

OneAngryMushroom

I'll go through a phase where I restart half a dozen times before I really get to like a CHARNAME and finish a game

CoM_Solaufein

Before the end and then I start a new game.

Sylph

As much as I love Cloakwood as an area, I cringe every time I come to that point of the game, knowing I'll have to trek across 4 maps of forest, deal with those horrible shrieking web traps, and then go clear out ANOTHER mine when really I just want to start nosing about the big city.

CoM_Solaufein

I like Cloakwood. After playing the game many times you know where the traps are and can have them disarmed.

But those spiders are annoying with their poison.

Not to mention you are far away from any stores to sell your loot.

CaptRory

I usually have to trek back to the Friendly Arms Inn at least once during the Cloakwood portion to sell and buy mroe ammo.

sarevok57

I have save files with characters freshly started in candlekeep, saved FILES, as in more than one, sometimes I burn out as soon as I click new game, ah getting older sucks

element

if i burn out its usualy at the start of the game usualy because i struggle to make characters that interest me after 10 plus years of baldurs

if i make it thru the intro though i usualy go all the way