Confession: I've always hated the railroad nature of the plot in the run-up to leaving for Spellhold, especially the fact that I'm forced to get into conversation with Gaelan "2 Coknee 4 U" Bayle, that I can't kill Aran Linvail after siding with him and in general the fact that I'm forced to take sides in a conflict where my only choices are Super Evil and Super Ultra Mega Oh My God Can You Get Any More Evil.
Confession: Related to the above, when I read I could get take a good guy friendly option using a mod, I did, and on one occasion exploited the reload potential of the game by creating a save fittingly titled "Kiss My Pixellated *** Gaelan" and amused myself for hours by going into his house, killing him easily and repeating.
Confession: I've never finished a game on pure skill - if I get to the end, it's because I've ruthlessly exploited the debug mode cheat system.
Confession: Being forced to bring him along despite my Charname being evil (and thus, forced to rave about justice along with him, which is something she would never do) simply because no alternative was presented for a warrior to soak up damage was sufficient fuel for me to grow to despise Minsc before I even left Irenicus' dungeon. Ever since, even on good playthroughs I have left him to rot in his cell.
Confession: I also despise his obsession with a hamster - I would be more magnanimous if he had an animal companion who could actually do something; Dog from DA:O may have been a joke character, but he was a joke character who could hold his own in battle on top of all the hilarity.
Confession: The epilogues for certain characters have always disappointed me. I've often dreamed of changing them around, but I have hacking and programming skills of a camel, which impedes my progress just a little.
Confession: Related to the above, when I read I could get take a good guy friendly option using a mod, I did, and on one occasion exploited the reload potential of the game by creating a save fittingly titled "Kiss My Pixellated *** Gaelan" and amused myself for hours by going into his house, killing him easily and repeating.
Confession: just rolled a sorcerer in ToB. With spells like color spray, fireball, lightning bolt and deafness, she'll provide my fireworks for tonight.
Confession: I have never played a female pc and probably never will.
Confession: I have never finished a fully good playthrough
Confession: I have never even considered letting Anomen join my party.
Confession: I EEkeeper my NPC's stats to gain the bonuses from the tomes I gave them in BG 1, I also change their class or kit, but keep it as lore friendly as possible. " Hexxat shadowdancer, Viconia fighter/cleric or cleric/thief and so on."
Confession: I add kits to my multiclass CHARNAME.
Confession: I sometimes cheese liches with traps.
Confession: I think the Jaheira romance is really good and not overly drawn out.
Confession: On my first 2 or 3 playthroughs I left Imeon in spellhold.
Confession: I always kill the silver dragon, once ive done her quest.
Confession: I played BG2 before BG1, when i did play BG1 a few years later I didnt really like it. Now thanks to the BG1 NPC project I love that game.
Confession: I find it really hard to let Haer'Dalis join my party, because I always want to use his soundset for my CHARNAME.
Confession: I have never used a mod. I wish that I could remedy this (iphone user)
Confession: I have never played as a gnome or halfling. I don't plan to remedy this.
Confession: I have never completed either game as a bard, druid or mage. I might try a druid some time...it is just that the dialogue never feels like a mage and I can't get into bards as a main character.
Confession: I have beaten BGee as a dwarven defender 3 times! My 3rd attempt was a successful solo no reload run.
Confession: I have beaten SoA and ToB as a dwarven defender once. I tried for a second time with a no reload run, but failed miserably.
Confession: I have never played any of the Enhanced Editions, and currently have no intention to. I love the original games far too much.
Confession: I play almost exclusively human females. I've played elves or half-elves only a couple of times, and never the shorties. I've played a male CHARNAME exactly once, and he was gay.
Confession: I've only finished ToB once.
Confession: I can't play any of the BG games without Imoen in my party. It just feels wrong to leave her.
Confession: I tried playing an evil character once, and I didn't even get past Chapter 2. I hate being a jerk, even if it's just in a video game.
Confession: I sometimes spam Ctrl-R, because I'm too impatient to fiddle with spells. Also, I always Ctrl-J through previously cleared maps.
Confession: I am really pissed that I have an Android phone, as all the cool games I get to play that my laptop can't (total crap) like BG:EE and Star Wars: KOTOR, don't allow mod installation on mobile versions of the game.
Confession: I haven't gotten to play a modded game since Morrowind, and the children for the cities made Balmoral virtually unplayable (crappy laptop is crappy).
Confession: After hearing so much about BGI, I am really disappointed with the lack of banter. I spend 98% of my game listening to swords swinging and characters complaining, but rarely any "You know, that squirrel is eyeing me funny" kind of dialogues. If I didn't need to gather my party before leaving an area, I wouldn't know people were missing.
Confession: I am saddened that I haven't seen many good lances/spears/halberds yet as I always love those kinds of weapons. And they're always overlooked in gaming.
Confession: I finally got my party to Cloakwood for the Bandit King, realized I'd have to clear the area to find him and promptly lost almost all interest in the game. This is what, Chapter 3? 4? I've been all over just exploring and questing and burned myself out here.
Confession: Noober was more annoying than funny. Yes, you ask dumb questions, great, but interrupting me repeatedly when I'm trying to leave town? Nope. You die today, Noober. And no one shall mourn your passing.
Confession: I'm fairly sure I bombed Imoen's dual classing as I can't go from mage back to thief, and the only other Good(ish?) thief isnt until Baldur's Gate itself. Balls.
Confession: I love Jennifer Hale (FemShep FOREVER!!). I do. But after an hour, I killed Dynaheir off for being both incredibly boring and making me cringe every time she'd use 'thee' and 'thy' wrong.
Confession: I want to drop my Good party for a Lawful Evil one, but I like Rasaad and don't really want the story to drag so much again...
Confession: The only time I did the maze level in Watchers Keep without a walkthrough was on my first playthrough with ToB installed.
Confession: I only found out the EE versions have bindable hotkeys this morning.
Confession: On my current playthrough, everybody started with boots of speed. First time I've done this, but from now on it's going to be the standard.
Play a CN character. Have a party made out of EE NPCs. Raasad, Neera, Dorn and Baeloth. Add in an extra healing for necessity.
The EE NPCs have some actual dialogue, owing to their quests. The quests are spaced out and they talk some more based on time. Dorn as a little bit of banter he initiates. It isn't much but for us IoS-users, it is the closest we can get to a fleshed out BG1.
Confession: I did romance in BG2 only once in my life, on my first playthrough, with Aerie and I screwed it up. When women say they want to have sex with you, THEY LIE! Lesson learned.
Confession: Since my first playthrough of BG2 and ToB, I have never played with a party. Once you go solo you aren't coming back.
Confession: I really don't like Minsc. He's a bad excuse for a Fighter, being a Ranger and only limited to specialization, and his stats are bad too. His lines are mostly idiotic and the whole Boo schtick is inane.
Confession: I think Inquisitors are overrated. They basically give up almost all their Paladin extras just to be able to cast that Dispel Magic... and ANY Paladin can simply pick up the Carsomyr and achieve largely identical effect.
Confession: I actually have no idea how to fight mages. I don't know which spells pierce what spells and the order in which you should cast them. I kill mages by hitting them with enough stuff that they simply run out of Stoneskins(Thief's Detect Illusion takes care of Mirror Image).
Confession: I did romance in BG2 only once in my life, on my first playthrough, with Aerie and I screwed it up. When women say they want to have sex with you, THEY LIE! Lesson learned.
Confession: Every time I see someone complain about Aerie's SoA romance ending, this meme pops into my head:
(Not only that, but end it happily the first time? Without any help?)
Confession: I never been anything but humans with dark skin, brown or dark golden.
Confessions: despite my obvious racism towards elves in general. I can always respect an individual over its race.
Confessions: I'd rather play a caster a thousand times before playing a warrior archetype or dual/multiclass one in any game!
Confession: I played the original BG 1-2 but never got far due to multiple reason surging from computer breaking to having to give the game back to my friend.
Confession:I want to punch people who try to claim xyz rpg isn't a rpg because it doesn't follow a similar formula as Baldur Gate or games similar to Baldur Gate.
Confession: I try to make Viconia and Neera fight for my love XP
Confession: despite the fact I'm looking at divine casters for my next play through, I'm more the likely going to pick the Sorcerer or general mage again.
Confession: I never been anything but humans with dark skin, brown or dark golden.
Lol, I'm the complete opposite. I only play elves or half-elves when I want to romance Viconia. The half-elves I generally RP as self hating, they secretly curse their mother or father for tainting their pristine elven line with the refuse that is humanity. When learning of the nature of their true Father, they start cursing their grand parents instead.
Confession: I have not yet killed Karoug without cheating. Having issues with him right *now* and am close to giving up again.
Hold Person might work.
@DragonOfShades The trouble is not so much me staying alive, it's more about me not dishing out enough damage to get past his crazy regeneration rate. But that's for another topic.
I've done so much powergaming and file-reading that I know many of the opcodes by number: 0, 1, 3, 5 12, 13, 16, 20, 25, 42, 45, 55, 58, 62, 98, 101, 109, 175, 185, 188, 189, 190, 218, 241 AC, APR, berserk, charm, damage, vorpal strikes, haste, invisibility, poison, wizard spell slots, stun, slay, dispel magic, priest spell slots, regeneration, immunity to opcode, hold I, hold II, hold III, improved alacrity, casting speed modifier, attack speed modifier, level drain, control critter... and there are probably more I can't think of right now.
Confession: On my latest run I have installed the trap and lock removing mod in BG2tweaks and I don't feel bad about it at all. Honestly I'm sick of having to detect traps, I know where they all are, so waiting for the detection to go off so they can be disarmed is just annoying.
Confession: On my latest run I have installed the trap and lock removing mod in BG2tweaks and I don't feel bad about it at all. Honestly I'm sick of having to detect traps, I know where they all are, so waiting for the detection to go off so they can be disarmed is just annoying.
Confession: I have considered this so many time, but then always worry that I won't need a thief at all.
@booinyoureyes , I also tried activating that Tweak once. It took a large percentage of fun out of the game, as I quickly realized that it made the entire rogue class a wasted class, especially when I also turned on "automatically identify items", which took away one of the best things about bards.
I've never been tempted to activate either of those components of Tweaks again. It changes the game radically, to a three-class system instead of a four-class system. I'll take the four-class system, thank you.
@BelgarathMTH: I had a post explaining why thieves and bards were useful for stuff besides disarming traps and identifying items, but I just lost it and am too lazy to type it again.
But it was a really convincing and insightful post, trust me.
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Confession: Related to the above, when I read I could get take a good guy friendly option using a mod, I did, and on one occasion exploited the reload potential of the game by creating a save fittingly titled "Kiss My Pixellated *** Gaelan" and amused myself for hours by going into his house, killing him easily and repeating.
Confession: I've never finished a game on pure skill - if I get to the end, it's because I've ruthlessly exploited the debug mode cheat system.
Confession: Being forced to bring him along despite my Charname being evil (and thus, forced to rave about justice along with him, which is something she would never do) simply because no alternative was presented for a warrior to soak up damage was sufficient fuel for me to grow to despise Minsc before I even left Irenicus' dungeon. Ever since, even on good playthroughs I have left him to rot in his cell.
Confession: I also despise his obsession with a hamster - I would be more magnanimous if he had an animal companion who could actually do something; Dog from DA:O may have been a joke character, but he was a joke character who could hold his own in battle on top of all the hilarity.
Confession: The epilogues for certain characters have always disappointed me. I've often dreamed of changing them around, but I have hacking and programming skills of a camel, which impedes my progress just a little.
It's Aussie, not cockney.
Confession: I have never finished a fully good playthrough
Confession: I have never even considered letting Anomen join my party.
Confession: I EEkeeper my NPC's stats to gain the bonuses from the tomes I gave them in BG 1, I also change their class or kit, but keep it as lore friendly as possible. " Hexxat shadowdancer, Viconia fighter/cleric or cleric/thief and so on."
Confession: I add kits to my multiclass CHARNAME.
Confession: I sometimes cheese liches with traps.
Confession: I think the Jaheira romance is really good and not overly drawn out.
Confession: On my first 2 or 3 playthroughs I left Imeon in spellhold.
Confession: I always kill the silver dragon, once ive done her quest.
Confession: I played BG2 before BG1, when i did play BG1 a few years later I didnt really like it. Now thanks to the BG1 NPC project I love that game.
Confession: I find it really hard to let Haer'Dalis join my party, because I always want to use his soundset for my CHARNAME.
Confession: I have never played as a gnome or halfling. I don't plan to remedy this.
Confession: I have never completed either game as a bard, druid or mage. I might try a druid some time...it is just that the dialogue never feels like a mage and I can't get into bards as a main character.
Confession: I have beaten BGee as a dwarven defender 3 times! My 3rd attempt was a successful solo no reload run.
Confession: I have beaten SoA and ToB as a dwarven defender once. I tried for a second time with a no reload run, but failed miserably.
Confession: On my current run I have also installed the bgtweaks Romance cheats, so CHARNAME is a harem king at the moment.
Confession: I play almost exclusively human females. I've played elves or half-elves only a couple of times, and never the shorties. I've played a male CHARNAME exactly once, and he was gay.
Confession: I've only finished ToB once.
Confession: I can't play any of the BG games without Imoen in my party. It just feels wrong to leave her.
Confession: I tried playing an evil character once, and I didn't even get past Chapter 2. I hate being a jerk, even if it's just in a video game.
Confession: I sometimes spam Ctrl-R, because I'm too impatient to fiddle with spells. Also, I always Ctrl-J through previously cleared maps.
Confession: I haven't gotten to play a modded game since Morrowind, and the children for the cities made Balmoral virtually unplayable (crappy laptop is crappy).
Confession: After hearing so much about BGI, I am really disappointed with the lack of banter. I spend 98% of my game listening to swords swinging and characters complaining, but rarely any "You know, that squirrel is eyeing me funny" kind of dialogues. If I didn't need to gather my party before leaving an area, I wouldn't know people were missing.
Confession: I am saddened that I haven't seen many good lances/spears/halberds yet as I always love those kinds of weapons. And they're always overlooked in gaming.
Confession: I finally got my party to Cloakwood for the Bandit King, realized I'd have to clear the area to find him and promptly lost almost all interest in the game. This is what, Chapter 3? 4? I've been all over just exploring and questing and burned myself out here.
Confession: Noober was more annoying than funny. Yes, you ask dumb questions, great, but interrupting me repeatedly when I'm trying to leave town? Nope. You die today, Noober. And no one shall mourn your passing.
Confession: I'm fairly sure I bombed Imoen's dual classing as I can't go from mage back to thief, and the only other Good(ish?) thief isnt until Baldur's Gate itself. Balls.
Confession: I love Jennifer Hale (FemShep FOREVER!!). I do. But after an hour, I killed Dynaheir off for being both incredibly boring and making me cringe every time she'd use 'thee' and 'thy' wrong.
Confession: I want to drop my Good party for a Lawful Evil one, but I like Rasaad and don't really want the story to drag so much again...
@semiticgod I do that as well all the time.
Confession: I only found out the EE versions have bindable hotkeys this morning.
Confession: On my current playthrough, everybody started with boots of speed. First time I've done this, but from now on it's going to be the standard.
Play a CN character.
Have a party made out of EE NPCs.
Raasad, Neera, Dorn and Baeloth. Add in an extra healing for necessity.
The EE NPCs have some actual dialogue, owing to their quests. The quests are spaced out and they talk some more based on time. Dorn as a little bit of banter he initiates. It isn't much but for us IoS-users, it is the closest we can get to a fleshed out BG1.
Confession: Since my first playthrough of BG2 and ToB, I have never played with a party. Once you go solo you aren't coming back.
Confession: I really don't like Minsc. He's a bad excuse for a Fighter, being a Ranger and only limited to specialization, and his stats are bad too. His lines are mostly idiotic and the whole Boo schtick is inane.
Confession: I think Inquisitors are overrated. They basically give up almost all their Paladin extras just to be able to cast that Dispel Magic... and ANY Paladin can simply pick up the Carsomyr and achieve largely identical effect.
Confession: I actually have no idea how to fight mages. I don't know which spells pierce what spells and the order in which you should cast them. I kill mages by hitting them with enough stuff that they simply run out of Stoneskins(Thief's Detect Illusion takes care of Mirror Image).
(Not only that, but end it happily the first time? Without any help?)
Confessions: despite my obvious racism towards elves in general. I can always respect an individual over its race.
Confessions: I'd rather play a caster a thousand times before playing a warrior archetype or dual/multiclass one in any game!
Confession: I played the original BG 1-2 but never got far due to multiple reason surging from computer breaking to having to give the game back to my friend.
Confession:I want to punch people who try to claim xyz rpg isn't a rpg because it doesn't follow a similar formula as Baldur Gate or games similar to Baldur Gate.
Confession: I try to make Viconia and Neera fight for my love XP
Confession: despite the fact I'm looking at divine casters for my next play through, I'm more the likely going to pick the Sorcerer or general mage again.
I have never had a druid or bard Charname. They are the only strongholds I have never done.
I have tried to make a bard Charname, but can't get one past third level. The class just doesn't speak to me.
I have tried to make a druid, but my standards on what acceptable stats are, are so high, then I can never seem to make one.
I can't make a Charname without perfect stats...I just can't...
0, 1, 3, 5 12, 13, 16, 20, 25, 42, 45, 55, 58, 62, 98, 101, 109, 175, 185, 188, 189, 190, 218, 241
AC, APR, berserk, charm, damage, vorpal strikes, haste, invisibility, poison, wizard spell slots, stun, slay, dispel magic, priest spell slots, regeneration, immunity to opcode, hold I, hold II, hold III, improved alacrity, casting speed modifier, attack speed modifier, level drain, control critter... and there are probably more I can't think of right now.
I've never been tempted to activate either of those components of Tweaks again. It changes the game radically, to a three-class system instead of a four-class system. I'll take the four-class system, thank you.
But it was a really convincing and insightful post, trust me.