The Universes's Most Lazy Let's Play

Moczo

Hey, all! To distract you all from my intense lack of progress in actual writing, I've been doing an LP of the Enhanced Editions over on my Tumblr. Since I have a... complicated relationship with 'remembering to post things' here, I've not thought to post it here as well. And in fairness, it's a screenshot LP so posting it here would be a MASSIVE annoyance.

But I can LINK it here.

To start with, here's what we've got so far:

Intro: http://moczothe1st.tumblr.com/post/113067453927/lets-play-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition
Part 1: http://moczothe1st.tumblr.com/post/113634849997/lets-play-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-part
Part 2: http://moczothe1st.tumblr.com/post/114366393607/lets-play-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-part
Part 3: http://moczothe1st.tumblr.com/post/114979646337/lets-play-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-part-3
Part 4: http://moczothe1st.tumblr.com/post/115527665097/lets-play-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-part
Part 5: http://moczothe1st.tumblr.com/post/116247786382/lets-play-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-part
Part 6: http://moczothe1st.tumblr.com/post/116939415779/lets-play-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-part
Part 7: http://moczothe1st.tumblr.com/post/117551174822/lets-play-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-part
Part 8: http://moczothe1st.tumblr.com/post/118060314432/lets-play-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-part


PHEW! That was a lot of work, posting all of those links. You have no idea how complicated it was to hit Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V literally nine times. In a row! Yeah, it says 'Part 8', but the intro was its OWN PART.

Madness. Freakin' madness.

In any event, though, I do have real work that I'm doing. New posts usually go up on Sundays, and one will be all set to go up tomorrow, as planned. And fun times will... probably be had by all!

Moczo

http://moczothe1st.tumblr.com/post/118705676167/lets-play-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-part

So here is part nine; in which our intrepid hero Zuko and his merry band kick out some longtime companions for being unpopular with the readers, then go roaming around the countryside slaughtering endangered magical creatures in order to help Imoen learn magic better. Then they recruit a sociopathic drow who kidnaps people for forced gladiatorial competitions, and don't go to the Cloakwood because it is dark and scary.

Y'know. HERO stuff.

Moczo

http://moczothe1st.tumblr.com/post/119221620117/lets-play-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-part

Part 10 now live! In which our erstwhile heroes enter the Cloakwood and face terrifying horrors, including Centeol the awful naked gross spider woman, Branwen getting melted by wyvern venom because she WOULDN'T DRINK HER POTIONS, and Faldorn's creepy-ass character portrait. On the plus side, we do murder Eldoth, so we achieved some good for the world too.

Moczo

http://moczothe1st.tumblr.com/post/119783438087/lets-play-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-part

Part 11 live! In which Coran... look, I know that people voted to bring him along, but he's starting to worry me. He really is. Look at his dialogue and just... just look at it. We need to replace this man, stat.

Also, Davaeorn I guess.

Moczo

http://moczothe1st.tumblr.com/post/120385396557/lets-play-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-part

Part 12 live, in which 70% of the way through a game called 'Baldur's Gate', we actually get to see the city of Baldur's Gate. Shocking!

Moczo

http://moczothe1st.tumblr.com/post/120968755542/lets-play-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-part

Part 13 now live! In which Scar is the most awesome character in the game, we end up encountering a greater than average number of evil wizards, and somehow nobody noticed the biggest brothel in the city was literally next door to a giant pile of corpses.

Also, dopplegangers still suck!

Moczo

Part 14: http://moczothe1st.tumblr.com/post/122104127772/lets-play-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-part

Part 15: http://moczothe1st.tumblr.com/post/122800573002/lets-play-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-part

That's right, two updates for the price of one this time! And because I love you guys, not just because I forgot to post last week's here on the masterpost.

Because I didn't.

Really.

Stop asking questions.

Moczo

http://moczothe1st.tumblr.com/post/123325837272/lets-play-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-part

And with Part 16, the main storyline of BG is complete. This was a surprising amount of fun to do, although it had very few readers throughout; my Tumblr is not hugely popular, and I am getting the sense the 'fan creations' thread was not the place to post this here. But, hey, I'm glad that those who followed it had a good time, and I hope you'll stick around.

For now, though, voting is open on if you'd like to see Tales of the Sword Coast, or if we should just jump straight into BG2. By all means, anyone who wants to vote, please do so! I love audience participation.

Drugar

Reading through it right now, actually pretty damn funny.

I vote; Tales of the Sword Coast, because of Durlag's Tower.

Good luck!

Moczo

Thank you for voting! Unfortunately, the vote ended up being 4-1 against ToTSC, but... you know, it's neat that you participated anyway because people who vote are awesome. Glad you are enjoying the LP and I hope you enjoy the next game too!

BelgarathMTH

Hey, @Moczo this is pretty good and funny. I just had time to read up to the FAI, the ogre, the spiders, Silke, and back to FAI, but I'll probably read the rest later.

I recommend you move this thread to Challenges and Playthroughs, a sub-forum in small type located under General Discussion. You should get a lot more attention there.

That's the thread people here post this sort of thing in, since you have a completely journaled playthrough here with pictures.

This Fan Creations forum doesn't get much traffic, and it's the place people look for unusual art and stuff that may or may not have anything to do with Baldur's Gate, while what you have is a straight-up playthrough of the game.

Also, when I hear "Let's Play" I think video with audio commentary. People around here call what you have a "journaled run", so, just to be clear to everyone, this is something to read, not something to watch.

EDIT: Oh, and something else that needs to be promoted about this piece is that it'a a darn good game walkthrough in addition to being funny and entertaining - lots of information about game secrets and whatnot, as well as concise summaries of information on how to play, albeit with some editorial opinions mixed in. Very, very interesting read, though.

Moczo

@BelgarathMTH Thank you for both the review and the advice! I just posted the first part of the second game, so I will go start that thread right now.

And up! Check out the new thread right over here: http://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/42312/the-continuing-and-newly-relocated-adventures-of-zuko?new=1