Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition playthrough begins, using same character as the first playthrough
ManchildKart
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I'm so excited, BG2 is solidly in my top 3 games of all time and so far it seems like the changes have improved quite a bit! You might have crossed paths with my playthrough of Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition which I started last year, when I was just starting out on YouTube, so I hope you'll appreciate the improvement in quality since then!
Using the same bg2tweaks as before, will be exploring all of the new content, and my main character is a Kensai soon to be Kensai/Mage.
More videos coming today for a total of 4, any questions or feedback is appreciated! Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqk6JMv4Anw&list=PLdeWZilAwE9B1t3DVj3sqg_qXS1g72cci
For the curious, here's the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition playlist that started last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZO6-awAu6o&list=SPdeWZilAwE9CgEVOfpj1gJWTnqMEgKBg6
Using the same bg2tweaks as before, will be exploring all of the new content, and my main character is a Kensai soon to be Kensai/Mage.
More videos coming today for a total of 4, any questions or feedback is appreciated! Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqk6JMv4Anw&list=PLdeWZilAwE9B1t3DVj3sqg_qXS1g72cciFor the curious, here's the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition playlist that started last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZO6-awAu6o&list=SPdeWZilAwE9CgEVOfpj1gJWTnqMEgKBg6 Post edited by Cuv on
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is this really EE. All the foot circles are white
The circles are indeed white, and it is indeed the Enhanced Edition.
I am not jealous of you at all right now.. Not even one bit, Nope.. Not at all.. Just plain normal envy levels at the moment..
Here's a request then, play the game on Twitch..
And send us a link to it?
Good times, cant wait for this!
IT'S AMAZING! We can already watch BG2:EE playthrough! Everyone, just everyone on this forum and in the universe MUST see it NOW.
@ManchildKart , I love you!
It's unbelievable, not 15th of November yet but new enhanced UI of BG2:EE is available to be seen already! Ahrrr! You've just made me MAD! I'm already on your youtube channel having watched the 2nd part and waiting - waiting - WAITING - for the next parts, especially with new NPCs.
EDIT: seriously, you'll miss not seeing these videos when (if) the Moderator deletes this thread.
EDIT2: I like the starting screen and the cinematics looks great. Also you can see the transparency of the UI is a little bit modified (if compared to the 1.2 patch) so that the text is seen better. Like the changes. And then of course, the brown color are good, from my POV, better than the blue ones from BG1:EE.
Part 3 is now up, with Part 4 coming soon, then I'm filming more today for release tonight/tomorrow.
(Also, any tweaks to HLA's/Spells/Class abilities you're aware of? That's one of the things I'm most curious about)
The Devs keep playing with us giving us the artwork of Hexxat instead of her portrait at one of the starting screens while there're normal portraits of Dorn, Neera and Rasaad at the same screen. Interesting, most interesting!
Maybe she'll even swap portraits during her quest?
Also it's worth to mention there seems to be original voicesets at the character creation stage. It's hard to tell though, taking into account the amount of time the screen with the voicesets takes in the video.
Love the fact now there's no memorize tab (write spell button) if the spell is already in your spellbook. Also, the experience you get from scribing spells and opening locks/disarming traps is like it was in BG2, so you can erase already known spells, memorize them again (when available) and get much XP already in the starting dungeon.
Moreover, it's now confirmed that while the XP cap for BG:EE was 161000, the experience you get after reaching this cap in BG:EE is saved and if, for i.e. you got another 39000, you start BG2:EE with 200000.
Although somebody would say it's no surprising, I'll still (just to give a proof) mention this here: you start your journey in the dungeon without new NPCs, as usual having only Minsk, Jaheira and Imoen (later Yoshimo as well) to make your party-members.
The items transferred to BG2:EE are the same as it was in BG2: pantalons, Balduran's Helm (a general rule), Mail of the Dead (a general rule). We are still to find out (possibly in the 4th video) if there's Sarevok's sword as well.
I had hoped they would be changed as it was in vanilla
I like the BG1 paperdolls far more than the BG2 paperdolls anyways, and I'm sure several people will agree, especially since BG1 paper dolls are actual pictures of the doll in the inventory screen, and it shows the armor and stuff you are wearing, instead of those ugly blotchy things which were in BG2.
I don't know about other people but I like elf paperdolls of all classes in BGII much more than BGI, especially armor. Someone should make a poll which ones are better.
Compare Dwarves, Halflings, and Gnomes between the two. I didn't really like the Human or Elven inventory images either. I'll throw up a poll to see which was better.
Ok, great, do so. I don't think there was a poll about this.
The first 4 videos are in the same time can give you some VERY useful information in terms of if this game is worth it (yes, and greatly), how the graphics is improved and so on. If you still don't know whether to buy this game or not, the first 4 videos, from my point of view, really show you should do it because it is - yes, indeed, - enhanced.