Gilker

Hum, first of all, i'd love to be you and about to play some of the finest RPG ever made for the first time ! as many other said, BGII is the best RPG ever made, i replay it every 2 years since it came out. i enjoyed BGI too, finished it 3-4 times, but it's not nearly as good as BGII. starting with BGI is quite important IMO as it is the beginning of a great story and you enjoy BG II even more when you played the I first. but if you're not a big RPG fan, start with BGII as you can get bored with BG I. keep PoE as the cherry on the cake, since it's way more modern in design ang graphics (then you won't find BG I & II ugly ^^). so, big fan of RPG : BG I then BG II than PoE not a big fan of RPG : BG II, BG I if you liked the II then PoE hope it helps

I have some concern with balance too. i just finshed the game yesterday, with a full party composed of Eder, Aloth, durance, Hiravias, Pallegina and my main character : a rogue. the least i can say is that the difficulty is not linear. I had some really hard time in the raedrics hold and the destroyed chapel (did it with my rogue and aloth only) in the beginning. i first found it almost to hard for "hard mode". after thoses early fights, the game suddenly became more and more easy as we gain levels pretty fast. in the middle of the act II, i had to restrain myself to use certain spells and objects to continue to ejoy the fights. among those, there are the figurines... summoning wood beetles, adra beetles, black widows and shadows is ridiculously overpowered. i understand their use for a solo player, but with a full party its way too mutch. cast them in the beginning of a fight, take you ranged weapons, and get you some popcorns spells... i have a few in mind, the best exemple is the bouncing fireball, level 5 druid spell. i can end most of the fights in this game by casting this spell once or twice. with scion of fire, i usually deal 6X150 damage, more with crits, this is wayyyyyyyy too mutch IMO. KO fighter habilities and level 5 call to slumber are too powerfull too IMO. that poor feather dragon spend 3/4 of the fight sleeping on his back. he died at my first attemps, with no tactics, no loss, no placement or anything else, it was my first dragon encounter and i just wanted to see how it comes before making a plan to kill it. to me, powerfull creatures should have immunity to that kind of spells. hope it can help for an upcoming patch or addon great great game by the way, loved it.

Hello ! I had some trouble understanding some part of the main story. translations in my native language are quite bad to be honest and i think i missed some explanations (or i'm just really dumb ). thanks for your help !