If I could change one thing about Baldur's Gate ...
Permidion_Stark
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Baldur's Gate is a great game, almost flawless in my opinion, but if there was one thing you could change about it what would it be?
For me it would be Shoal the Nereid and the fact that if you talk to her you die. There's no saving throw, no chance to avoid it by choosing the right dialogue option. You just die. The first time it happened to me I sat there stunned, thinking you have got to be kidding me. And it still bugs me that the only was to get through the encounter is to choose one of your NPCs to sacrifice (albeit for a very short time).
So, that's my bugbear; what's yours?
For me it would be Shoal the Nereid and the fact that if you talk to her you die. There's no saving throw, no chance to avoid it by choosing the right dialogue option. You just die. The first time it happened to me I sat there stunned, thinking you have got to be kidding me. And it still bugs me that the only was to get through the encounter is to choose one of your NPCs to sacrifice (albeit for a very short time).
So, that's my bugbear; what's yours?
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Really though, I can think of many things but I feel like each one of them would still anger some people. I really like the game as it is, and I hope I'll like BGEE even more!
And add twenty hours of gameplay to Throne of Bhaal
I'd probably settle on 4 unlimited Bag of Holding though, just to be able to keep sellables/keepables apart from eachother while adventuring.
If you mean the entire saga, I'd like to get the chance to import my party into BG2 and expand ToB. As for BG1 I agree with @mch202: I would like more NPC banters, especially with Imoen.
Download and play the mod "Unfinished Business" and you've got pretty much all cut content.
@TheCoffeeGod
Download the "Ease of Use" mod which allows you to stack almost all items, including jewlry, potions, unlimited arrow stacking, etc.
@mch202
Download the "BG1 NPC Banter Pack" which adds party banter, dialogue trees, and other options similar to BG2.
@Ulfgar_Torunn
Crank the frame rate to 45 or 60 and don't pause if you need a little bit more excitement with close combat classes. Having said that, this is defintely a cool idea - essentially you'd have to incorporate some ideas from 3rd and 4th edition D&D
That was in reference to actually changing the content of vanilla BG rather than modding it.
Edit: @paheej any suggestions for me other than a buggy icewind gate?
Loved BG1. Hated going into Firewine Bridge, Ulster School.
List of still unrestored content. I've played UB a billion times :P
I'd say about 60% of the cut content has been restored, but looking through that list there are some items I'd find to be gems. Also the Haer'dalis and Valygar romances were never properly restored (and that mod for Haer'dalis is SOA only). Those would be major restorations and add depth to characters I've found to be rather bland (well, not Haer'dalis...)
Also, I wish they had David Warner make more dialogue for Irenicus. Perhaps it's not too late yet though. Come on you BG2EE!
They probably had no idea what direction they were taking with BGII. Remember the scene at the end of 2 where the cloaked men are around a table with the Bhall symbol on it. Didn't make much sense and was most likely an abandoned concept.
one of those would be useful period, but if i could change anything about the game, it would be that each copy of the game comes with one.
Edit: although, if time stopped outside of the dimension, and someone died in there (say from not eating) would time come to a freeze outside of the dimension or would an infinite amount of time go by, then somehow, time would start up again outside and things would resume like normal? hmmmm, will have to think on that one....