[BG2:EE] Remove dreams
srvk
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Dreams in BG2 are not as atmospheric as their BG1 counterparts, they are repetitive and it takes a lot of time to skip them. There should be an option to instantly skip them.
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In fact, dreams in BG2 are more atmospheric than their BG1 counterparts. Why someone may want to skip them is beyond me.
I also would't like to have some content cut out from the game. It is Enhanced Edition after all.
The BG2 dreams were much more visually striking, and happened to be responsible for much of the characterization of Jon Irenicus. I wouldn't dare skip them, and I'm also looking forward to any tweaking/improving that Overhaul might have in mind along the same vein as improving the Gorion vs. Sarevok fight.
I also think the game would be a lot more interesting without those, "and now here's what the villain is up to" scenes in BG2...(in ToB the ones with Sendai are funny as hell watching her getting more and more annoyed at her underlings F'ing up before she realizes WHO is attacking her base and freaks the $^%# out, which should definitely be left in), but the ones in SoA completely ruin the surprise that Irenicus is disguised as the director (mean sure the voice is a bit of a give away, but that at least could've been since BG re-uses VAs, but the 3rd scene clearly shows he's taken over long before you get there and is expecting you, largely giving away that you're going to get betrayed no matter which side you choose). BG1 left an element of surprize involved since you didn't know what that Armored Ass-hat who killed your mentor is up to until just a little before the final confrontation and whether or not you could stumble into him at any time.
In one of it you have to maneuver you character away from Bhaal. How would that be skipped?
That sounds to me like someone that just skips the dialogues to get back to killing stuff, which goes against the design of the BG games.
I admit, I have not played the game countless times for the dreams to bug me.
But, isn't that true for ALL cutscenes and all dialogue? (I'm not sure if cutscenes are skippable, to be honest. Never tried to skip them.) Isn't all dialogue unskippable?
Even if you played the game countless times, the games take hundreds of hours. Are a few dreams that are fully animated, instead of a single picture with text and take like 5-10 minutes at the most, that huge of a deal?
Pretty nit-picky to me.
By the way, many would argue that the starting dungeon is far more repetitive and there's even a mod for it. (Dungeon Begone?)
But I don't understand why you would want to skip an important part of the game.
Personally, I consider the starting dungeon really fun, since you go back to square one and need to survive without all your uber-gear.
Skipping one of the more important parts of a great game is not fun for me, to be honest.
I see no fun in an immersion-breaking mod that's basically "woot! hello stranger, let me get you out of this place and here's all the XP, items and gold of this place."
For testing purposes, it's fun. If you want to test a few mods that start after getting out of the dungeon but other than that, there's no point to it.
I would therefore suggest the dev team not give this option. I just disagree because this is best left to modders.
the amount of times one has heard irenicus' lines... and some you have to be there and click (interactive) so you can't just go and get a cup of tea...
definitely would appeal to the more casual players.
removing them entirely however would ruin it, because the first 30 or so times you see them it remains entertaining. past that it gets dull.
a) have lost any right to call yourself a casual player
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b) really, really need to take a break
Casual players play Dragon Age 2 and Skyrim. I will not go as far as to call people that play "Angry Birds" and "Farmville" gamers.
Maybe an option to skip cutscenes and dreams *rolls eyes* would be reasonable. But really and I'm being an elitist here probably, if you are a casual player and you want to skip the story, you shouldn't be playing Baldur's Gate. You should be playing Diablo.