All the reasons you cite for why BG hasn't aged well seem to be less about the game itself and more about your lack of experience with the combat system. You haven't figured out how to play yet so yo… (View Post)

Back before I realized her survival would be canon in BG2 and intimately connected with the plot, when I was playing a Chaotic Evil Fighter specializing in long bows, I would shoot her dead the momen… (View Post)

So what you're saying is Gorion was a drooling idiot who, knowing he and his ward were in such great danger that they had to flee immediately, didn't bother to memorize any of the absolutely basic de… (View Post)

Because a mage with improved alacrity is a mage who would almost certainly be able to cast basic defensive spells like stoneskin, mirror image and so forth? Because a mage who can cast improved alacr… (View Post)

I really hate to say it, but I agree. They're supposed to be replacements for, and improvements of, the originals, taking advantage of how far we've come since 1998. Instead they have less animation … (View Post)