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Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Replaying now. I finished BG1 and am on my way to slay the dragon. I stopped at trademeet to save the town on the way so I can get the druids out of my hair.
You're following a guide I hope!
Have any of you nerds here ever assembled the Adamantium Golem Armor? That shit was really ahead of its time as a piece of game design. It requires you to find an early item in BG1 and transfer your save over into BG2, then into the Throne of Bhaal and find an obscure NPC to give the three items to to construct it.
3.5 is excellent in nwn2 and ddoThis is true, actually. 5e will definitely be better than 2e for a BG game, but it will still be seriously lacking in video game format. Tbh, no D&D iteration yet has translated really well to video game format (except maybe 4th edition, which is ironic, considering how bad it was as a pnp RPG).
One of the things that made the Divinity games so fun is that the RPG system they used was built from the ground up in video game format. As great a studio as Larian is, I'm not sure that the people who loved Divinity will love their version of a D&D game- just due to the limitations of the D&D 5e system itself.
3.5 is excellent in nwn2 and ddo
Sauhaugin->underdark is one of my favorite sequences in any game ever. The relief and accomplishment you feel coming out the other side is immense and it was like the furnace that transformed you from an adventurer to a legend.Underdark done. Banged a drow before betraying her so she was eaten by a demon. Viconia told me a story about how she was a fuckslave to a fat mechant until his heart gave out from it. Firkrag killed with little effort before he could even finish my summons. Slaughtered all kinds of beholders, mindflayers, and other various neat monsters.
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Can't remember nwn2 (but I owned it) and never played DDO, but I suspect I'd take Divinity's system over either.
I wouldn't bother with DDO at this point, but nwn2 is awesome if you can get past the wonky controls. Cool story, nice expansions and great player made content. A few years back I played this exclusively for over 6 months. Its really about multi-classing, which in 3.5 is really well done and powerful.
BG2 finally down after 19 years. It loses a good bit of momentum after Spellhold, but overall the game holds up incredibly well considering its age. The main things I dislike about it are specifically things that are from a lack of things that didn't exist in gaming at the time.
I'm unsure if I'm going to go on to do ToB or move onto the next cRPG on my list which is Planescape Torment.
I wouldn't bother with DDO at this point, but nwn2 is awesome if you can get past the wonky controls. Cool story, nice expansions and great player made content. A few years back I played this exclusively for over 6 months. Its really about multi-classing, which in 3.5 is really well done and powerful.
I see some of you guys suggesting following a guide for BG2. I’ve never played it, and I’m not typically inclined to play through something more than once. Typically I’ll play blind then see if I’ve missed something before going past a point of no return. Think that strategy would work here?