Worse Than Restartitis

Raduziel

Currently I'm suffering from non-startitis.

I'll explain:

That's the condition where you can't just start one game due to the excessive flow of ideas about CHARNAME, party composition and mod setup.

Since I finished my I Hate Undead full-Icewind Dale run, two weeks ago, I'm trying to start a full BG(2)EE run without success. I can only go as far as character creation. After 1h thinking I usually give up and work on some mod.

Have you guys ever gone through this?

Thanks!

lroumen

I've never recovered.

I actually make a mod kit and play it.

Raduziel

I'm working on a mod pack right now to get around it, but without success so far.

Actually that's kind of how the I Hate Undead Kitpack was created.

DJKajuru

Hey Raduziel!

I haven't gotten to the point of not fully creating the character in *Baldur's Gate* (dragon age and neverwinter nights keep me on a even greater restartitis) , but when it comes to BG I havent finished the whole trilogy since 2015 , however, my current run is already at the Sahuagin city, so perhaps I'll find a cure again , after all.

sarevok57

i remember semi recently my restartitis was so bad i would be half way done my character in the character creation screen before i would start a new character ( oi that was bad ) but for some reason, my restartitis is getting better, although i've been playing a lot of IWD lately, and i think one thing that helps, is that IWD compared to the BGs is very short, i can beat the entirety of IWD in a day, and HoW/TotLR takes me like 4 hours to complete,

so the fact that IWD + expansion are just shorter games makes it so i don't restart as much

in BG if i can make it to the friendly arm inn, then im at least going to be playing all the way until night time, but the problem with that is, BG takes me about 16 hours to do every quest and uncover all the fog of war, so i have lots of files that are around chapter 5

IWD on the other hand, if i have an unfinished game by the end of the day, its usually around chapter 5 or 6 so the temptation to complete that is all the more alluring ( although yesterday the play through i had just got to dragon's eye level 1, and i started that file up yesterday and was fighting the last boss of IWD around supper time - or perhaps a little later - )

but anyways, for me, restartitis comes and goes, sometimes i think im cure, but then other times it hits like a freight train

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_Luke_

What about creating a RR (Rogue Rebalancing) Jester? That mod is pretty awesome....

megamike15

i feel like i suffer from planning parties i never startitis

gorgonzola

i never suffered from restartitis, but i am suffering from non startitis since about 18 years ago. because i play a lot of bg2, then suddenly i feel no more interest in it and spend some months or sometimes even an year or more doing other things, then again i go in the full immersion mode and begin to play it a lot.

i don't think that this is a problem, the symptoms are not painful, in my non startitis periods i do a lot of other interesting things.

i suffered also of on other disease, i used to replay almost each hard battle many times, each time using completely different tactics and maybe self imposing me limitations, like using only spells, or only weapons, or only ranged weapons and so on. usually i fought each dragon, after having destroyed him many times with many tactics, sending each single party member to deal with him.
i wanted to really discover the potential of each party i was using, as i think that versatility is better of raw power, and that was the better way to do it. but each of my runs was very long. now i am probably too lazy to do it any more and usually i fight a single time each battle, sometimes i even use tactics that are effective but not elegant, not to the extent to using mislead + backstab, spamming adhw with pi, TS and mind flyer form or things like those, but before i was looking to elegance and style in a victory, now i do it less. and probably i have less fun in playing like that.
i tell this cause mine was similar to restartitis, using the same party and for a single battle, but the thinking of a new possibility and then restart, even if only the single battle, was there.

sarevok57

gorgonzola said:

i never suffered from restartitis, but i am suffering from non startitis since about 18 years ago. because i play a lot of bg2, then suddenly i feel no more interest in it and spend some months or sometimes even an year or more doing other things, then again i go in the full immersion mode and begin to play it a lot.

i don't think that this is a problem, the symptoms are not painful, in my non startitis periods i do a lot of other interesting things.

i suffered also of on other disease, i used to replay almost each hard battle many times, each time using completely different tactics and maybe self imposing me limitations, like using only spells, or only weapons, or only ranged weapons and so on. usually i fought each dragon, after having destroyed him many times with many tactics, sending each single party member to deal with him.
i wanted to really discover the potential of each party i was using, as i think that versatility is better of raw power, and that was the better way to do it. but each of my runs was very long. now i am probably too lazy to do it any more and usually i fight a single time each battle, sometimes i even use tactics that are effective but not elegant, not to the extent to using mislead + backstab, spamming adhw with pi, TS and mind flyer form or things like those, but before i was looking to elegance and style in a victory, now i do it less. and probably i have less fun in playing like that.
i tell this cause mine was similar to restartitis, using the same party and for a single battle, but the thinking of a new possibility and then restart, even if only the single battle, was there.

i remember when i first played bg2 i would have a save file before every "big boss enemy" so if i ever wanted i could fight them over again, or show my friends how cool the bosses looked in this game, its amazing really that back in 2000 the amount of awe i had over the enemies i came across in bg2 and how cool they looked at the time, its unfortunate that games now adays don't give me that "awe" anymore

gorgonzola

good old times, i remember a couryard i used to play in as a baby, when i went there adult i was surprised about how small it was compared to the one in my memory. ok, i started to play the game at 40, i was not a baby, but...
i share your same feelings and i believe that everyone that plays the game since the first years does. i remember my first thief run, the best i had as fun dispenser, i remember the first time i defeated tactics improved irenicus in hell, wow, that was great, and i did it using my own tactics, it was completely e victory of mine, after many failures and reloads. man i was in a state of perfect bliss for a couple of days after that!
now we are much more skilled and our knowledge is vastly superior, but the awe is lost forever...
the fact that we are still here playing and talking about it shows how great this game was, and still is today.