Grats on Beamdog for creating the 2nd best BG title
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I just wanted to make a thread congratulating Beamdog on SoD being generally excellent. To my eyes, it's easily the second best piece of Baldur's Gate content (only behind BG2) released. The writing and gameplay is far and away better than BG1, TotSC, and ToB and I think that deserves a lot of props. They've actually added a meaningful entry to the series that I will look forward to every time I start another BG1 -> ToB playthrough.
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I've not gone back yet since encountering a bugged quest. Desperately needs a patch unfortunately.
How blind one has to be to write such bollocks?
BG2 lacks the open world aspect that I really enjoy about BG1. BG2 is "guided" and there seems to be a plan as to how quests work. (strong hold related, start in the city, takes you to new areas that you can't access beforehand) I'm not a fan of that part of BG2. BG1 also has a great self discovering aspect imo, there's a lot to learn by going out of the path.
Meanwhile BG1 entirely lacks the living party aspect that is great in BG2. I'm not a fan of early level D&D, it makes the game very cheesy and luck based while the number of tools available to solve a sticky situation is much bigger in BG2.
To me, SoD strikes a middleground as there is much exploring to be done inside each area but the party still feels alive so from my point of view, wether you're more of a BG1 guy or a BG2 guy, SoD can take the second place.