Blarghagh

If becoming the best selling strategy game ever is below expectations, then someone should have had their ridiculous expectations adjusted.

But Lemmy says that they are Rock & Roll, are you going to disagree with Lemmy? I'm more comfortable disagreeing with Lemmy than I am disagreeing with Lemmy's mole.

I somehow misread this thread title as "i used maxi-pad to cross border"

Wait, what? Wikipedia says it's the fastest selling strategy game ever made.

"(mainly because Tale tried wild magic in the Ice Island and it made half our gold disappear)" Tale is like some kind of unlucky charm to this group.

So there's a good chance there's going to be a few deaths? *hopeful*

Yeah, it feels a little Mary Sue but the writing is pretty good and makes up for it, I feel. Thus far, anyway, but I'm not very far in.

In the similar boat as Deraldin, never been to Durlag's Tower. Don't own TOTSC. I "own" Baldur's Gate in that I bought it years ago, but recently I can't find it. I've got BG2+Throne of Bhaal though. No Tutu for me (or is it BGTrilogy now?). I'm thinking of buying that anthology set thing, but other things have kept coming up.

That reminds me of the Night Elf newbie rite of passage of trying to climb down that big tree Darnassus is on, falling down and never finding your way back as a ghost. That's no longer possible, is it? Isn't there are return to spirit healer button now? A while ago in KotOR I died to the luckiest mook ever, soloing as a high health soldier vs. this weak mook's stun baton that seemed to have a 100% chance of stun every time. Eventually, after a few minutes of me just sitting there looking around helplessly while he whittled down my health slowly and killed me. I've never felt so humiliated in a game. Also, in Aliens vs Predator 2 I always had a habit of pouncing my enemies when standing in front of the insta kill electric fences that make up the level borders. Pounce, opponent dodge, fly towards certain death with no way to stop it.

Just started reading "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss on recommendation by... the world, or something. It'd be easier to list who didn't recommend it.

Well, the black screen issue is at least less annoying than my problem. After every movie the damn thing stops recognizing keyboard input and I can only use my mouse.

When you're playing Super Mario Bros Wii with friends, all your deaths become hilarious. That, or grounds for a serious falling out.

"Come on, man. My toe really hurts!" Ah Tale, you fragile thing.

What it has to offer is a fantasy crpg. You guys act like we have plenty of those coming out and we can afford to be choosy.

Is that Hareishan the same as that one vampire we murder in BG2?

Hey, I never said it was a good reason.

I think they allowed it in BGT because Ankheg isn't metal or something. I believe they could not wear metal armour is the restriction, not can only wear leather.

It was probably just an early version of the concept, these sort of things tend to get rewritten once you start expanding them.

I think you gotta charm her pants off ( ) before you can talk to her. There's a related journal entry that says something like "this has nothing to do with our current adventure, but might come in handy in a sequel".

Magical Hiccup. It's funny because Tale's useless.

This is currently my favourite thread on this board and I feel it is my duty to go bumpity bump to get it back around the top of the page.

They chose MoCap because Motion Capture and Performance Capture are buzzwords right now. As someone who works with MoCap, I can't describe how many idiots come along trying to get their cartoony, three foot walking blob character MoCapped by people who have, you know, human proportions. Of course, most MoCap companies need the work, so they don't tell them that they'll spend more time retargeting than they would have spent hand-animating it, and then the client decides that MoCap doesn't work and never works with them again even though they're the ones who didn't think it through.

Gnolls are relatively low-XP, and that stronghold is tedious as hell. (Although, I also recall that one of the stat-boosting Tomes is down there.) Hrm, fair enough. I vaguely remember leveling up in there, but like I said, my experience with BG1 is mostly that I played it to complement BG2, I don't think I finished it more than once. Maybe there's some quest XP if you bring Minsc to find Dynaheir, I guess.

I agree with Deraldin, Dexterity is pretty important in BG, plus aren't you missing out on quite some experience and gold kills if you don't go to the Gnoll Stronghold? What rules does your version use regarding HP on level up? Is it the random number from BG1 and is Tale just unlucky, or does his constitution plus his class just make for a marshmellow (soft and easily flattened)?

Elf archers in BG are pretty much munchkinning without actual effort. What's going on with the Mirrored Eyes potions? I've never actually used them, then again I've only played BG once or twice and that was quite a while ago. I usually skip it altogether and go straight to BG2.