These things have a labor cost. Any hours spent by the company's programmers and designers creating a second mode, is time not spent balancing or perfecting the game itself. I don't think multiple op… (View Post)

Alot of items mentioned in BG2 are later game items. But arguably a "best" item could be something you can acquire early and actually backstab most of the game's content with. And I'm not s… (View Post)

Super interesting topic, and it's a credit to the original game design as well as the EE team that there's this level of depth in the interactions. And that it can be kind of random, i.e. you can pla… (View Post)

One cool note about party interactions and the EE additions, is that it's finally possible to play a full six evil NPC's in BG2. Originally the best you could was Korgan, Viconia and Edwin. Dorn and … (View Post)

I disagree pretty strongly with this, and agree with Kamigoroshi below. I think there's something of a survivor bias going on here, where all the forgettable games of the 1990s and 2000s don't get me… (View Post)