When did you have begun to play those games?
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When did you have begun to play those games?
- When did you have begun to play those games?77 votes
- 1- At the very beginning (Like I started before the creation of SoA or the creation of its expansion).66.23%
- 2- Long time before EE (like when Tactics was THE mod).25.97%
- 3- Few years or months before the EE era.1.30%
- 4- I started after EE, but on an original version.0.00%
- 5- I started with EE.5.19%
- 6- This year (not EE users please vote the option number 4)1.30%
- 7- I don't play them for now, i just enjoy reading the boards or I read them because I plan to buy the games.0.00%
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The rest is history.
Then Weimer come into the scene, coded Weidu, and made that big collage of pre existing mods and material written by him that is the Tactics mod. That become the standard for those who was not playing vanilla. If you read the boards active at that time you see that almost everyone that was not playing vanilla had Weimer's mods installed, Tactics and Item Upgrade.
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With THE mod I don't give a quality related judgment.
In the recent years SCS was THE mod, scroll back this board and read the topics of an year ago, most of the players was playing it or playing vanilla. Other really good ones like IR and SR had never become so, but just because there where, and there are less players using them. And IA never become THE mod.
In the future maybe LOB will become THE mod, even if is not a mod.
I hope that now is more clear.
For decades the Baldur's Gate games and Master of Orion 2 have been the touchstones of my PC gameplay. I'm really tickled pink about Beamdog doing the EE versions. Now if they could only take a look at MOO2
All these years later and here I am on these forums discussing the Baldur's Gate universe...
"Wow, this game is really cool!"
I am joking.
The criterion that I have used can be seen as players that began when the games where new, few years after, in more recent times, in the EE era and recently, adding a couple of special categories.
I could have done differently, creating more choices for the very early players, it would have been a good idea, but as it is not possible to add options to an existing poll we have to take it like it is.
Anyway if someone want he can tell more about his personal story in a post, like is happening right now.
Though I wouldn't consider that playing it fully. I again bought BGII from GoG but never played it.
Well back in like 2013-2014 I remember telling myself I would play through both these games. So I bought BG:EE and beat it with a Human Blackguard. I then used that char in BGII:EE and beat SoA. I still haven't beat SoD or ToB but my rerollitis is preventing me >_<
I did spent some days at a friend's home, about 200 Km (125 Mi) far from mine and his foster son was playing SoA. I was amazed. Consider that I had almost no gaming experience, having played just some games on an 8bit computer something like 20 years before, Pac Man and stuff like that. And was only 1 year that I had my first computer, a second-hand one running Win97.
When a couple of months after we met again his son was bored to play the game and have given me the 4 CDs, but he had lost the manual. The adventure begun!
Living in a digital divide place I didn't have an internet connection so I did not even imagine that there were gamer's boards.
After the first intense year of vanilla SoA I slowed down, making maybe a couple of runs each year.
Then in 2006 I managed to have a connection, but I dedicated my surfing time to other interests, mainly music and woodworking. Some years after that one day by accident I discovered what was going on. WHAT???? There is a BG1, and an expansion, and mods, and even a community? GREAT!
The whole thing suddenly took a different proportion, even if I have not become member of any gamer's forums. Until the beginning of the present year when I joined in those boards. To talk to people of whom I read the posts from at least a couple of years, to share opinions with them, was fantastic.
That is my story.
And then I really started to play with 16 (2007/8) and, while I didn't play all year long, I played it nearly every year.
Though I played bg1 for the first time in 2010 ^^
And after all this time, I am still to get anywhere deep into ToB...
Wow, next time a mage! he did not gather enough XP. Other party, of five members, this time he will reach the needed level.
Hit the level cap..... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
http://torinak.com/qaop#!midnight
and
http://torinak.com/qaop#!hobbit
Who is younger then 40-50 should give them a try....
As i skipped from them directly to SoA only knowing how they was can help to understand how I was astonished seeing that awesome game.
That said, The Hobbit was a crazy amount of game packed into the computers of the day, with a real Inglish parser trying to understand full sentences, multiple computer characters wandering the game pursing their own agendas, and a graphical rendering of many locations. How that fit into 48k is a truly amazing feat of software engineering, and the sad thing is, the woman that wrote the game (on contract as a grad student) had no idea how revolutionary this was, and vanished to become an almost anonymous IBM drone. Yet another pioneering role model lost to the industry
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/18/hobbit_author_veronika_megler_reminisces
Lords of Midnight was an amazingly vast game for the era, but I would not call it an adventure, nor its more involved sequel, Doomdark's Revenge. It was a lot of fun though, back in the day. Never did manage to beat it, although most games came close... That might be an interesting experience, along with the Infocom Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy adventure (now playable online with graphics as well as text!) but I don't think the wonder of the era can be captured at this point. The games look primitive because they are - they fit into the cache memory of a single CPU core on any modern machine, 4 or 5 times over!
I got so excited when I found the bowl of water elemental control (the first "magic item" I obtained), so rather than turn it in to Tenya, I kept it in my inventory most of the game, confident that I would have powers to control the endless hordes of water elementals I was sure to come up against later.
And there was much rejoicing.
Also followed Troika's games in those days, seeing as I loved the original Fallout and some of that team went on to form them, and actually I'd played Arcanum, The Temple of Elemental Evil and VtM Bloodlines before I got around to picking up Icewind Dale, and I picked them both up at the same time, and had meant to play them back to back...but stuff in my life got in the way and I actually never ended up playing the second one (and then lost the unopened and sealed game box in a move)!
I then went to a market not far away from home (you now, in Russia of those years almost everything was sold at markets, not shops) and asked a seller of computer disks which RPG he could advice. I had no Internet then, so researching was not possible for me (and computer games magazines were expensive).
So, huge props to that fella - he took a box with lots of CDs inside and said: "Look, this has been released recently, and has a russian translation, this is a proper game, a big game, a good game". The cover said "Shadows of Amn".
Anyone remember the tarrasque they had on the official website as a joke under the "monsters" section?
Might and magic VI and VIII are my favourites, about a month ago i planned to get them in gog.com just dont have the time to play atm