Few questions. Mainly GoG vs BG:EE
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1) Why doesnt this forum have a search button? If it does why is it hidden?
2) I am considering of purchasing baldurs gate games, but seeing that GoG is selling BG1 and BG2 at half the price this is, I need to ask if new content is really worth 10$? Note that I dont care about graphics.
3) I never played BG1 and I was wondering if your characters and decisions continue in BG2 or do i get default things once i start BG2? GoG and BG:EE.
4) I am guessing this has been asked 10000000 times by now, so why wasnt it added to FAQ?
2) I am considering of purchasing baldurs gate games, but seeing that GoG is selling BG1 and BG2 at half the price this is, I need to ask if new content is really worth 10$? Note that I dont care about graphics.
3) I never played BG1 and I was wondering if your characters and decisions continue in BG2 or do i get default things once i start BG2? GoG and BG:EE.
4) I am guessing this has been asked 10000000 times by now, so why wasnt it added to FAQ?
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3) No it don,t, Bg2 assume you had take the canon decision only thing that is imported is the character with his stats, and equipements... It was too early and complicated back in thouse days to have all the decision accounted for like they did for masseffect and Dragon age series
2) BG:EE is BG1 with the BG2 engine + enhancements. There are mods which run BG1 through the BG2 engine but none of them made a particular effort to keep the game somewhat balanced, and as mods they don't have input from the guys who legitimately created the games in the first place. Lack of creative control of the license and all that.
It's also not out yet, so no one can really say if the extra $10 bucks is "worth it."
3) Your main guy does, but that's about it. Very, very few other things carry over from BG1 to BG2.
NO!!!
I ONLY HAVE ANSWERS!!!?!!!
Q1: It's at the bottom of the bar on the right. (Because they don't like you)
Q2: Many players believe yes, Many players believe no. (You need to buy bg1+bg2 from GOG then get the widescreen mod and the tutu mod but even then you still don't get the 3 new npc's, the new adventure and you don't get the future DLC their making.)
Q2.5: Rumors suggest the first DLC "Adventure Y" will come with the game free
Q3: Your characters are imported. However you lose all your items and your Decisions don't matter.
Q4: What wasn't added?
2. There is absolutely no reason why you shouldn't get the original version of the game as well as the enhanced editon. Hell, even ig BG:EE is an unqualified success, I can still see myself occasionally going back to play the originals
3. Just about the only character/decision that carries on between the 2 games is your main character and his stats/class/abilities/alignment etc.
Some of the NPC's will appear as joinable characters in both BG1 and BG2 but they won't remember what decisions you made.
4. I think most of the information on these forums is given under the assumption that everyone has played the originals, since they are 14ish years old. Hence the lack of spoiler tag usage.
2) It depends on your perspective. The enhanced edition has been recoded to run more smoothly on modern machines, which means several things: Everything else is mostly code clean-up. The way I look at it, it's like a new Windows operating system. Can you do a lot of the same things with Windows XP that you can do with Windows 7? Sure. Does Windows 7 run better overall? Yes.
In this case, we're talking about a 14-year-old game versus a brand new game. The content is largely the same (except for the GUI and the new adventures), so you can judge for yourself which one is more worthwhile. The original will already be compatible with any mods that have been released up to this point. However, the enhanced edition will probably be what the modding community shifts to moving forward, meaning that in the future, you might run into compatibility issues if you want to use a new mod.
Also, Zoom! I can't say it enough. The zoom feature is awesome. And cross-platform gaming is always fun. If you have an iPad, and I have a PC, and our mutual friend has a Mac, we can all play multiplayer together. If you've got five other friends with iPads, you can all get in a car (or a bus, probably), drive for several hours, and play multiplayer the entire time.
There are a bunch of reasons why the enhanced edition is better. You can decide for yourself whether those reasons are enough to convince you. It was enough to convince me.
3) @Talvrae has it right--for the most part, the games are independent of one another. You import your character, which brings in your abilities, level, class, and certain specific pieces of equipment. Everything else is assumed to be the same.
There are a handful of items that if you have them show up in Irenicus' dungeon. Golden Pantaloons for one. I believe the Claw of Kazgoroh shows up in one of the boxes if you have that item too, but I can't remember what did and did not show up again.
I wasn't aware of the claw of kazgoroth one though
in BG1 according to ur reputation at the time, u gain different bhaalspawn abilities
and those abilities are pass forward into BG2 with some tweaks
(create a new CHARNAME in BG2 gives u those abilities randomly)
but mainly, no nothing changes...mainly ur CHARNAME self
unless u install some mods that let u carry over ur npc stats and weapons
but still no major plot difference
The main selling points of BG:EE:
- existing game entirely bug-fixed
- uses the ToB engine (implements dual-wielding, kits, BG2 spell selection)
- hi-res graphics
- zoom feature
- new GUI
- new cinematics
- playable on PC, iPad, Android, and cross-platfom
- fixed multiplayer
- three new professionally crafted NPCs with quests and interactions with existing NPCs (Monk, Blackguard, and Wild Mage)
- new Blackguard kit
- new (additional) voice sets for PC
- new (additional) PC portraits
- new areas
- 6 hour stand-alone adventure module, The Black Pits
- DLCs of new content to be released regularly post-ship
- when BG2:EE is released you'll need BG:EE to integrate them both into a single platform to play the entire Enhamced saga in one go
- dev team working with modding community to support mods
- a bonus feature yet to be announced
- success of BG:EE and BG2:EE will make development of Baldur's Gate III possible
And hopefully an official mod manager of some sort will be released as DLC in the near future.
Main selling point of Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga and Baldur's Gate II Complete at gog.com:
- classic versions
- bargain bin price!
- you can get them both now, whereas BG:EE is scheduled for release Nov. 30, '12 and BG2:EE some time next year
- a plethora of mods currently available for the TuTu and BGT platforms (however most if not all will be eventually available for Beamdog's Enhanced Editions as well, just will take some time)
So if you love playing the entire saga with lots of mods installed won't be able to do that with the Enhanced Editions until next year
"Q1: It's at the bottom of the bar on the right. (Because they don't like you)"
Doesn't matter if you're left or right... ;-)