Well, I'm sure he's coming your way. And I didn't know you wanted the blonde girlfriend to double up as a follicle source; well, just leave her a landing strip and you'll have enough for the "on parole, working as a lifeguard" fuzz.
I started playing with my dad back in the day. I started out just messing around with character creation (still my favorite part). I actually do play with the sprite outlines, they have grown on me over time.
Ah follicles. Well, looks like I'm not desperate enough after all. I'll just get me an avatar without hairloss and romance Jaheira. And Imoen. And maybe Neera. And Nalia. And get a castle and a guildhouse and a tardis in stead of a flashy car. This game is PERFECT for my 40's :-D
I'm 26. Though definitely not new to the BG series. I started playing BG when I was 8 and have been playing on and off since then. I think part of the reason I have a good vocab now is because of the countless hours I put into these games and other older RPGs.
I'm kinda surprised my age bracket is in the lead here! Dunno why, but I figured both the one younger and the one older would both be bigger than mine!
52. Began PnP AD&D in 1981. Played ever since (email-based, CRPGs) with some interruptions due to child raising in their early years. Now raising them on D&D in their teens, too: the torch must be passed on to a new generation. And yep, my folks let me stay up late to watch the first moonwalk, too.
i'm 25. i knew about baldurs gate when i was 15 [ watched a gamespot video review of tob] but never got around to playing the series until 2012. to put this into perspective my first wrpg was kotor in 2007.
I am 25 as well. My introduction to the series was through Icewind Dale when I was about 11 years old or so, I played it with my oldest brother back then.
46 and (slowly) counting. After discovering AD&D in the very early 80s, I drifted away from PnP over the years as our group left for university, got married, etc. I picked up BG back in '99 (age 29) at a Best Buy in Phoenix while looking for a brief summer distraction before moving overseas.
At the time, I had no idea what it was but was intrigued by the ability to play D&D solo. I still remember opening it up and inserting the discs to play for the first time. I was very quickly hooked and I then upgraded later to SoA/ToB, played IWD, NWN, then full circle back to the BGEEs.
So you were there when the first issues of the Dragon Magazine were coming out. I only have them as an archive. But what wonderful ideas, occasionally. Letters to the editor, home rules... That was a different world... As always, I'm both happy that I'm younger and sad that I didn't catch the good old times.
I played various PnP RPGs in the 70s and 80s before coming across Baldur's Gate a while after it launched. I wasn't hooked by it at the time due to a dislike of the small screen and slow walking, but a few years later after discovering BGT and other mods that became my favourite game and I've played it pretty regularly ever since ...
@chimeric , over Christmas holidays I was visiting my parents and found a box of my old AD&D manuals in their attic, together with boxes of miniatures and numerous old copies of Dragon magazine. They really took me back!
Well! It's different for me! Maybe it's because I wasn't around early enough for those things to evoke nostalgia in me, but I'm completely ahistorical. I look at those issues of the Dragon from 1983 and all I care about are the story ideas, creatures, magic, mechanics and excitement. I would put them to use immediately if I had a group of friends to play with. Who cares about time anyway.
Ahhh, the classics - Ultima, Wizardry, Bard's Tale. I still remember how pissed off I was when exiting a certain dungeon (sewer system?) with a ton of excellent drow gear only to have it crumble to dust in the sunlight! Now, I fully knew that drow gear was *supposed* to do this but said to myself, "There's no way they would put that into the game." Oh, and I had already saved over the game right before I started dropping all my cool stuff for the better drow gear.
My C64 and game floppy disks were extremely lucky to avoid my wrath that day. Joysticks, graph paper, and other odds-n-ends on my desk not so much.
37. First non-arcade game was probably Zork, and then Atari 2600/Colecovision/Intellivision.
First played Baldur's Gate I & II in the early 2000s, but by that point I was kind of tired of D&D's setting and ruleset (having played it in PnP since junior high) so I never got far in either game. I beat both of them for the first time after buying the Beamdog versions.
I am deeply suspicious of nostalgia and love the sprite outlines.
I thought I was 24 earlier today (that thought seriously went through my head) but then I remembered I'm 26. That's the problem with my age; it keeps changing.
Age is really relative. At family reunions, I feel rather old, because there are always four kids under 20 at each one. But at the homeless shelter where I work (I'm the TA for the workplace readiness class), I feel rather young, since a lot of the people I work with are twice my age. On these forums, I'm just a shade younger than the average, since I grew up playing BG2, and most people here grew up playing BG1.
I actually look 36. Thin hair adds five years (unusually high testosterone runs in the family, which is surprising because we're rather mellow people), and the beard adds another five years. Before I grew the beard and lost the hair, I always looked years younger than I was. I'd trade the beard for my old hair back, but it would be a tough trade. Beards are just so warm and fuzzy!
My boss is in her 40s, but she looks a lot younger than me--in her 20s, really. She's very short, too. Every month when the new trainees roll in, everyone is surprised when they find out she has 7 kids and spent 18 years as a business consultant. I like her. She's nice to me.
In fact, basically everyone is. One of the graduates of our program just gave me a couple of caramel candies today, since I offered him some cough drops when he was sick a while back. My brother and I also helped him get in contact with his family; he had trouble reaching them to let them know where he was. He's a sweet guy.
Last week he gave me butterscotch treats. I ate them after finishing a third pacifist run of Undertale. Life is good.
Buhahaa, for a Finn, this explains a lot! ;-) You do know I like yer style generally Finneous, so just teasing a little... Only I sort of assume us as the gamers from BG first experience onwards... often.
But yuup, nice to see the next gamer generation coming along... (an exaggeratedly wizened and winking smiley here)
Charmingly put, I like yer style brus - but surely it is more to signal against perma-unkindness that knows no age: yet, at maturity we are supposed to be at command post of our actions. ;-)
I hope Jagger doesn't feel like he's 20, not really. That would make him delusional. If he feels very vigorous for his age, the more power to him, but if a person thinks "I'm a 20 year-old soul in a wrinkled sack," then that soul hasn't learned much since turning 20, and what was the point of all those after-years?
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At the time, I had no idea what it was but was intrigued by the ability to play D&D solo. I still remember opening it up and inserting the discs to play for the first time. I was very quickly hooked and I then upgraded later to SoA/ToB, played IWD, NWN, then full circle back to the BGEEs.
I still remember how pissed off I was when exiting a certain dungeon (sewer system?) with a ton of excellent drow gear only to have it crumble to dust in the sunlight! Now, I fully knew that drow gear was *supposed* to do this but said to myself, "There's no way they would put that into the game." Oh, and I had already saved over the game right before I started dropping all my cool stuff for the better drow gear.
My C64 and game floppy disks were extremely lucky to avoid my wrath that day. Joysticks, graph paper, and other odds-n-ends on my desk not so much.
First played Baldur's Gate I & II in the early 2000s, but by that point I was kind of tired of D&D's setting and ruleset (having played it in PnP since junior high) so I never got far in either game. I beat both of them for the first time after buying the Beamdog versions.
I am deeply suspicious of nostalgia and love the sprite outlines.
Age is really relative. At family reunions, I feel rather old, because there are always four kids under 20 at each one. But at the homeless shelter where I work (I'm the TA for the workplace readiness class), I feel rather young, since a lot of the people I work with are twice my age. On these forums, I'm just a shade younger than the average, since I grew up playing BG2, and most people here grew up playing BG1.
I actually look 36. Thin hair adds five years (unusually high testosterone runs in the family, which is surprising because we're rather mellow people), and the beard adds another five years. Before I grew the beard and lost the hair, I always looked years younger than I was. I'd trade the beard for my old hair back, but it would be a tough trade. Beards are just so warm and fuzzy!
My boss is in her 40s, but she looks a lot younger than me--in her 20s, really. She's very short, too. Every month when the new trainees roll in, everyone is surprised when they find out she has 7 kids and spent 18 years as a business consultant. I like her. She's nice to me.
In fact, basically everyone is. One of the graduates of our program just gave me a couple of caramel candies today, since I offered him some cough drops when he was sick a while back. My brother and I also helped him get in contact with his family; he had trouble reaching them to let them know where he was. He's a sweet guy.
Last week he gave me butterscotch treats. I ate them after finishing a third pacifist run of Undertale. Life is good.
Or at least, I am that age that young(er) people thinks is old.
I remember being young, and looking at people like me, and thinking 'you are so old!'.
And now I'm here, and I realise why Mick Jagger keeps singing. Cus he still feels twenty!