A Thorough Look at Baldur's Gate

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  @AustinPaulMusic · 3 years ago

  “To recreate Baldur’s Gate; that’s the page you’d have to get everybody back on. And that will never happen again.” - me smiling serenely two weeks after BG3’s release.

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  @windblownleaf6450 · 6 years ago

  this is what i come to youtube for - 2 hour discussions about 30 year old games

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  @Space-Pig42 · 3 years ago

  You can multi-class however you like but don't you dare take a level in another gender was an absolute gold line

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  @jamesmitchell6489 · 8 months ago

  I'm so sorry you don't have ads on for these videos Noah, because every night when I go to bed I slap this on and run those numbers tf up

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  @Shapeplusform · 2 years ago

  I’m the reason those steam achievement stats are so low.  I own Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2 on steam in the same way most people own the bible and never read it.  When it was on sale for $6 I bought it because I thought it was important to have / support it.

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  @LBSira · 10 years ago (edited)

  I played 120 hours of BG II but I have 0 achievements because they added them much much later on (like one full year after the release) ; i think most of the people played, like me, on the release, so thats why the numbers are so low (and the achievements are not retroactive if you load your savefile now)

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  @dustinsmith3688 · 9 years ago

  Noah is the champagne of video game reviews.

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  @hakijoe · 5 years ago

  &quot;Stand down and your friends will live!&quot; <br>&quot;Ok, I&apos;ll submit, just leave my comrades be&quot;<br>...<br>All your councilors: &quot;Don&apos;t be silly mr. protagonist man, proceed with the cutscene as planned&quot;<br><br>...got me too good xD

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  @Daervar · 1 year ago

  The thing that made me love Baldur&apos;s Gate for all these years, even though i don&apos;t meaningfully play it for more than a decade, was the fact it was a low level adventure.<br> No game changing spells, no overpowered weaponry, no fully dressed in magic stuff before level 3 characters. For me this is the way, if you start as level 1 you should be a nobody. We were nothing in the Sword Coast.<br>Exploration was the main theme of the game for me. And that is why i don&apos;t play it anymore. I&apos;ve seen everything it had to offer me, I&apos;ve traveled to every single corner in those maps.<br><br><br>The memories.. :)<br><br>That made me want that Black Hound game even more, it was a zero start again after Throne of Bhaal. A mysterious, unsure start for another adventure.

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  @timedmonson4839 · 8 years ago

  So the game awards xp for story goals. So at the point in the story where you get busy with the drow priestess, you earn XP. The rest of the party earns xp. &nbsp;It was hilarious to see several of my party members level up from this, including the possible romance characters. &nbsp;&quot;I got laid so hard, even you leveled up!&quot; :D

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  @Schizm1 · 10 years ago

  I&apos;ve played the saga 29 times... Yes, that&apos;s entire BG saga with both expansions 29 times. I did speedruns, solo runs, fiddled around with mods, made some small improvements myself, played with my girlfriend aaaand so on...<br>And still till this day it is the only game that never bores me and also it&apos;s the only game that made my cry like a little girl. When? Do you guys remember (SPOILER) the ending of ToB? You know, after you make a choice about your future? There are epilogues for your party members. There are just written, not animated like it would be done nowadays, and while narrator is reading each epilogue, this specific, amazing but sad music plays... And it hits me every time...<br>Playing entire saga is that awesome, HUGE (I mean... seriously...HUGE) adventure that you take with your friends (npcs). You grow with the character and with the companions that are part of your team... So reading those epilogues, learning about how your friend lived after you left them, and how they died is so emotional that all I can do is cry. I missed them... I missed Minsc (and Boo), Khalid, Jaheira, Sarevok and all of the others... I also miss Jon Irenicus. The best &quot;bad guy&quot; I&apos;ve ever seen in video game. <br>Baldur&apos;s Gate saga is, for me, video game equivalent of Lord of the Rings. It&apos;s the best RPG of all time, and i&apos;m saying that not because of nostalgia but because... it just is.<br><br>Sorry for my english and long post. I just love this saga so much.

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  @alexlinworm · 2 years ago

  The problem with the missed attacks is that in order for the game to apear more actiony, bioware in their wisdom decided for the characters to make fake swings, even when they&apos;re not really rolling the dice for an actual swing. They didn&apos;t want for the characters to stay still until their round came for a attack. But in the EE editions you can disable cosmetic attacks, which makes everyone feels like they&apos;re opening their eyes when swinging lmao. No more infinite misses.

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