Your greatest moment in Baldur's Gate?
Frostiken
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This has got to be mine:
http://i.imgur.com/bTV5V.jpg
Minsc got killed, so I raised him with a Rod of Resurrection. I forgot to reequip his weapons, and sent him right back into the fray.
The very first thing he did was 'go for the eyes' and cold-clock Firkraag with a single punch.
I paused the game and 'WTF'd' for a good minute.
My #2 moment - and only because I don't have proof, was when I finished Baldur's Gate 1 with the following in the log:
WILD SURGE: COW!
Cow: Mooooooooo!!!
Sarevok: Damage Taken (45)
Sarevok - Death
http://i.imgur.com/bTV5V.jpg
Minsc got killed, so I raised him with a Rod of Resurrection. I forgot to reequip his weapons, and sent him right back into the fray.
The very first thing he did was 'go for the eyes' and cold-clock Firkraag with a single punch.
I paused the game and 'WTF'd' for a good minute.
My #2 moment - and only because I don't have proof, was when I finished Baldur's Gate 1 with the following in the log:
WILD SURGE: COW!
Cow: Mooooooooo!!!
Sarevok: Damage Taken (45)
Sarevok - Death
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Me: What?
"You leveled up. See? It worked!"
Although that's probably because Montaron got a backstab in there...
Long story...
One of the wild mages (we had 2 I think) ended up summoning a Rhino which my Ranger was able to direct towards a lich which ended up totally smashed by the Rhino.
Xzar to Edwin: "But you're lying! You couldn't be thinking! I was thinking EVERYTHING! There's nothing left for you!"
Had me howling with laughter just before my naive, so far relatively good wild mage plummeted into darkness and evil by encountering the Dryad trying to protect her tree and Xzar going ballistic and imprisoning her in a jar.
Definitely my most unexpected development i'd faced and made the whole experience the most enjoyable i'd had since first playing the original game.
@Frostiken - damnit, i'll have to resurrect Laisha my wild mage at some point now, she'd REALLY want that killer cow! heh heh.
I still loved visiting Baldur's Gate for the first time and being completely lost lol.
Also, in BG2 when you come out of the underdark and meet Drizzt's party, was so awesome. I ended up attacking and killing Drizzt to prove to my friend that I was the ultimate dual welding badass, buttttt was still a epic gaming moment.
Xzar: HaHAR there, Montaron! Quite the fight, eh chum?
Montaron: My "equal" is a talent of many men: all of them fools.
Our party had just finished fighting, we had gotten hit but everyone was alive and good. I sorted out my inventory and noticed Minsc had gone a sickly green colour. "That's weird" I thought, then a few seconds later he just randomly exploded????
I've never ever had that happen again. I don't know if it was a glitch or something one of the ooze/puddings can do. I was just thanking my stars I hadn't quick saved yet because he was beyond raising from the dead. So weird.
Just the idea that someone had had that idea and wrote it into the game.
Also the big metal unit. Everything about it, from the randomness of the golden pantaloons, to the insanity of the bronze pantalettes (quick, cast magic missile!) to the awesomness of the unit itself.
Aerie: Casts Breach
CHARNAME: Critical Hit, 56 damage
Minsc: Critical Hit, 46 damage
Warden dies.
The perfect 'generic' creepy dungeon crawl music:
The atmosphere of BG1 can't be topped
BG1: Going through the Cloakwood for the first time, trying to find those blasted Mines.
First time I played evil, had my first evil dream, and recruiting Edwin (thought he was just a quest giver.)
Going to the Werewolf Island for the first time.
BG2: Taking out the Shadow Thieves. It remains an awesome dungeon crawl to this day.
The Underdark.
TOB: The Lum the Mad level of Watcher's Keep.
My dad and I are playing a Co-Op game. He never really played before. So he's handling his Half-Orc Fighter and Minsc and i'm playing an Elven Mage and running all the team's spellcasters and Imoen. Up to this point I haven't had enough magic to really be impressive. I've made some fights a lot easier by getting Command to stick but nothing really impressive.
So a couple nights ago, we're jumped by those assassins/bounty hunters in the wilderness. I cast a few spells, and the fight is over. They're silenced, and feared, and we killed 3/4 of them with a quickness. And the thief we have to chase halfway across the map. Finally, it's like, "Yeah, that's magic."
It's stood out in my mind even all these years later so it must have left an impact on me.
My most recent playthrough of the saga, I recall getting out of the Nashkel Mines and buffing up my party to take on the people who assault you on your way out of the zone. I always recalled that fight being particularly difficult. As soon as it started, I lobbed in a Hold Person with Xan or Branwen or someone, and it affected the entire enemy party. Fight was over before I knew it and I was just laughing at the amount of time I spent buffing my party up before hand.