I was 12 when I first played the game and it's safe to say I was terrible at it at first.
One thing I distinctly remember was reading something in the manual about speed factors and not quite understanding it. I believe it said that speed factor 2 means your attack occurs at 2/10 into the game round. I assumed that this meant you would be able to attack five times per round. Naturally I gave my paladin the fastest weapon in the game, a dagger. I was super excited when I bought the dagger of venom, speed factor 0. Not sure if I thought it would allow me to attack infinitely many times per round.
I also had only the vaguest sense of what people were talking about (I knew roughly 50 words of English). I distinctly remember finishing the game and restarting. To my surprise, I understood what the people in candlekeep were saying now. Baldur's Gate taught me English faster and more effortless than school ever could.
so I just made one recently, and it was in real life, so my co-worker and I were staying out of town for work, and avril lavigne was on tv, and I said to my co-worker; whoa isn't that aran linvail? haven't seen her in ages, then he my co-worker looks at me with a puzzled face and says; don't you mean avril lavigne? and I face palmed myself and went wooops, been playing waaaaaaaaay too much bg2 recently, ah good times
When I first started I thought it would be good to be a fighter\cleric/thief i thought 3 classes in one is the best thing to do! Untill I never left level 1 and got one shotted by more or less every monster
Took me awhile to figure out you could assign different battle scripts to your party members. After doing so I didn't know you could turn them off quickly via the bottom lower left AI button.
Never noticed you could also drink potions at their description tab.
Never tried to talk to my familiar, and had no clue it can go into your backpack.
Didn't know that the thief's Detect Illusion ability is tied to the Detect/Disarm trap icon. When activated and your Detect Illusion skill is high enough invisible enemies are detected!!
Lol Mr nameless been playing baldurs gate from the time it came out and didn't realise you could turn off the script AIs from the char bar, went into customise for each guy when killing drizzt earlier. This shows you keep making mistakes and learn from them even after playing for years! Thanks!
Oh gods, the list is endless (the joys of playing a game meant for adults when your age is still in single digits)
This sums it up lol. I started playing Baldur's Gate when I was five. O_o;
Umm, first mistake was thinking that Wisdom was the Mage's most important stat. So my mage had an 18 Wisdom and like a 15 Intelligence. Not bad, although his 3 Charisma didn't do him any favors.
Funnily enough I didn't make too many mistakes when I first got hold of Baldur's Gate (I was 12 I think), but then again a friend of mine had it first and I spent time watching him play it before I managed to persuade my mum to buy it for me.
I have made a few daft mistakes recently however. Someone on these forums recommended to me that I try the Bard class out a few months ago. Never really played one in BG before so I figured why not. Being used to 3rd edition and the NWN games, I raised my bards charisma right up and kept his intelligence at a relatively average '10'. I didn't figure it out until I had just finished the Nashkel Mines.
1. I used to think Turn Undead was a power that allowed you to become an Undead Monster. 2. I felt it was morally wrong to summon a dog just so you could send it to die in battle. 3. I would get Dynaheir killed and then remove her corpse from the party because I only wanted Minsc. 4. I would do the same thing to Montaron.
Also, about plot thingies in BG1, when I first played the game, I thought you were Wotan's son, and that the game had something to do with norse mythology, also, I thought you were going to hell because of the word "gate". The first time I've managed to exit Candlekeep, I got killed by a wolf, in the second time I made it, I played as a Druid, and casted Shiellagh, and I thought that it had only 2 uses, and I spend one with the wolf (who got easily killed), and then tried to kill Gatewarden, lots of time I've tried to!! LOTS!!! LOOOOTS!!! Till I found out he was immortal in BG:EE, and in BG:EE, in chapter 6, I realized that you were Bhaal's son, and not Odinn's. I thought that non-magical treasure was giving bonuses. I thought that I could win the game with a STR 9 DEX 15 CON 12 INT 17 WIS 12 CHA 14 Mage/Thief (and I did it, also taking Dorn in a good run, and asked WHY IS HE LEAVING???), my second play-trough also had an Elven M/T, but with STR 10 DEX 19 CON 10 INT 18 WIS 15 CHA 15, just to finish BG2 like a Demon-slayer, Beholder-eater, Troll-kicker, enemy-destroyer, world-braker, star-killer very OP M/T with 21 in 2 different Abilities Scores.
FACE ME!!!! FACE THE NEW LORD OF POWER GAMING!!! (how I feel now The power of knowing what you're going to face. Do not forgot my Lich-Slayer title, nor Jan and CHARNAME's traps :
EDIT: when I started to play this game, I was 7 YO, and I had to ask my father about the meaning of "GATE" and asking him lots of times if he played the game (I do not know how, but I found the 5-CD version in my house, and my father never played the game nor heard about it before, I was amazed, that he had such a game and he never knew!! I think somebody gave it to him and he left it somewhere, I found it and started to play it). I think I learned 68% of the english I know from BG, KOTOR 2, some interesting Wikipedia articles (yes, I read a lot ), some other internet pages, books, etc).
First time I played I took Minsc with me. I stuck him in studded leather and had him dual wielding maces. Since I actually played 2nd ed years ago, I assumed rangers couldn't dual wield in heavier than studded leather. Whole time I could have had him full plate and packing steel.
When i first got the game i was 9, i thought reading was dumb and pausing was boring. Killing people was my main purpose. Going lone-wolf was my thing and party members were only there for baiting purposes. i didn't get very far. 240 xp was epic and i wasn't going to share it. boy did i learn. I'm now 24 and i got back into BG when the enhanced edition came out. It all makes sense why all i saw was the prologue and the problems at nashkel mines never got resolved.
I have to ask... did vanilla bg2. Have the tab to see secrets, because I use to scan every room for items, it was really cool when I found something, and I though it was a "feature"
This is so weird. All these people keep saying my childhood and saying it's theirs. I started playing bg with my dad before I could read, and, yeah. I got into the ee's in June when I saw our old computer sitting in the basement and thought to myself, I wonder if we still have that old game. We had thrown out all the discs except for the one that was left in the disc drive, and I started up the windows 98' machine and played for a few hours. That evening I looked on the App Store to see if there was an iPad edition. "Enhancing" my favorite game sounded dubious, but I gave it a shot. Sure am glad i did now. Got the ToB for windows 98' over the summer, and after that mistake I got SoA, and was able to play the game. Thats how I play until the 15th!
When I made my first character Reggie the dwarven fighter, I didn't understand 2nd edition and had not roleplayed yet at that stage of my life. I didn't notice the REROLL button and just moved his first roll of stats around, giving him high Str and Con and low Dex and Cha. I specialized into warhammers and didn't find Ashideena until near the end of his career. It took me a while to know for sure that THAC0, AC and saves were all better when they were LOWER numbers (AC I learned the fastest, since I figured it simply must be better to have armor than to be naked so the lower number obviously meant it was better). He made about as many dialogue and quest mistakes as you could reasonably expect an intelligent newbie to make, and finally my carelessness with saved games and quest timers led to his death at the hands of the 24 hour poison in Baldur's Gate, ending his quest.
The first time I went through BG2, it was with a character I had recently beat BG1 with that was a min/maxed fighter/cleric, I had to fight the mindflayers using 100% missile weapons and baiting since my regular spell casting tank kept instantaneously dying.
The first time I went through BG2, I also helped out the Shadow Thieves, I later found out that helping the vampires is so much more satisfying and fun since you kill them anyways, and fighting your way through the same structure twice is not that great.
Other than that, I found BG1 rather easy to figure out for me at 8, I managed to reach Chapter 3, and gave up when I couldn't find the Bandit Camp.
When I was about 12 and played BG1, whenever there was pathfinding trouble, e.g. a character going the wrong way to get somewhere, I thought it was because the character in question had a too low intelligence score.
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He made me sit and re-roll, until his character had the best stats, while he did his homework and later I could watch him play.
One thing I distinctly remember was reading something in the manual about speed factors and not quite understanding it. I believe it said that speed factor 2 means your attack occurs at 2/10 into the game round. I assumed that this meant you would be able to attack five times per round. Naturally I gave my paladin the fastest weapon in the game, a dagger. I was super excited when I bought the dagger of venom, speed factor 0. Not sure if I thought it would allow me to attack infinitely many times per round.
I also had only the vaguest sense of what people were talking about (I knew roughly 50 words of English). I distinctly remember finishing the game and restarting. To my surprise, I understood what the people in candlekeep were saying now. Baldur's Gate taught me English faster and more effortless than school ever could.
Also why is everyone on this board either Edwin or Sarevok?
Umm, first mistake was thinking that Wisdom was the Mage's most important stat. So my mage had an 18 Wisdom and like a 15 Intelligence. Not bad, although his 3 Charisma didn't do him any favors.
I have made a few daft mistakes recently however. Someone on these forums recommended to me that I try the Bard class out a few months ago. Never really played one in BG before so I figured why not. Being used to 3rd edition and the NWN games, I raised my bards charisma right up and kept his intelligence at a relatively average '10'. I didn't figure it out until I had just finished the Nashkel Mines.
Rage quit.
2. I felt it was morally wrong to summon a dog just so you could send it to die in battle.
3. I would get Dynaheir killed and then remove her corpse from the party because I only wanted Minsc.
4. I would do the same thing to Montaron.
I used to overlook the spell sleep.
I never used to bother using turn undead.
The first time I've managed to exit Candlekeep, I got killed by a wolf, in the second time I made it, I played as a Druid, and casted Shiellagh, and I thought that it had only 2 uses, and I spend one with the wolf (who got easily killed), and then tried to kill Gatewarden, lots of time I've tried to!! LOTS!!! LOOOOTS!!! Till I found out he was immortal in BG:EE, and in BG:EE, in chapter 6, I realized that you were Bhaal's son, and not Odinn's.
I thought that non-magical treasure was giving bonuses.
I thought that I could win the game with a STR 9 DEX 15 CON 12 INT 17 WIS 12 CHA 14 Mage/Thief (and I did it, also taking Dorn in a good run, and asked WHY IS HE LEAVING???), my second play-trough also had an Elven M/T, but with STR 10 DEX 19 CON 10 INT 18 WIS 15 CHA 15, just to finish BG2 like a Demon-slayer, Beholder-eater, Troll-kicker, enemy-destroyer, world-braker, star-killer very OP M/T with 21 in 2 different Abilities Scores.
FACE ME!!!! FACE THE NEW LORD OF POWER GAMING!!! (how I feel now
EDIT: when I started to play this game, I was 7 YO, and I had to ask my father about the meaning of "GATE" and asking him lots of times if he played the game (I do not know how, but I found the 5-CD version in my house, and my father never played the game nor heard about it before, I was amazed, that he had such a game and he never knew!! I think somebody gave it to him and he left it somewhere, I found it and started to play it). I think I learned 68% of the english I know from BG, KOTOR 2, some interesting Wikipedia articles (yes, I read a lot
Made it frustrating to try to find the "secret" items.
I started playing bg with my dad before I could read, and, yeah. I got into the ee's in June when I saw our old computer sitting in the basement and thought to myself, I wonder if we still have that old game. We had thrown out all the discs except for the one that was left in the disc drive, and I started up the windows 98' machine and played for a few hours. That evening I looked on the App Store to see if there was an iPad edition. "Enhancing" my favorite game sounded dubious, but I gave it a shot. Sure am glad i did now. Got the ToB for windows 98' over the summer, and after that mistake I got SoA, and was able to play the game. Thats how I play until the 15th!
The first time I went through BG2, I also helped out the Shadow Thieves, I later found out that helping the vampires is so much more satisfying and fun since you kill them anyways, and fighting your way through the same structure twice is not that great.
Other than that, I found BG1 rather easy to figure out for me at 8, I managed to reach Chapter 3, and gave up when I couldn't find the Bandit Camp.