Deraldin

Fine then! I won't using spoiler tags in your thread! <_< Pop: The FF came up for me too, but they could still see me. :ph34r:

I just caught the highlights on TSN (damn them for not televising the game) and I must say it was hilarous watching Komisarek holding his own against Winchester dispite the fact that he couldn't see with his jersey up over his face. ) Sorry for the Oilers, but "Hooray! Another win for my Habs!"

There are some tough boss fights through the rest of the game. I think part of my problem was that I never really bothered with spell casters all that much. I stuck with Casavir, Khelgar and Neeshka for most of the game. Spellcaster AI just ticked me off, so I just got rid of the spellcasters. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sand was pretty powerful for me, especially at later levels (he murdered a lot of the bosses, thanks to greater stoneskin, empowered cone of colds and plenty of meteor swarms) and from what I hear, Qara kicks the **** out of everything. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I noticed that Qara kicks the **** out of everything when she :'(

There are some tough boss fights through the rest of the game. I think part of my problem was that I never really bothered with spell casters all that much. I stuck with Casavir, Khelgar and Neeshka for most of the game. Spellcaster AI just ticked me off, so I just got rid of the spellcasters.

Ah. Haven't hit most of the fights that I found difficult yet. I agree that most of chapter one is pretty damn easy. I assume you mean an AC of 32 there. I never had higher than a 27 or so, mainly because I kept waiting and waiting to get the good stuff, but then ended up forgetting all about it and stumbling around without any really good equipment. :">

Oooo, you managed to get past the troll area without any damage? Congratulations. Where are you in the game right now?

:'( So beautiful, and so very sad. My computer would die trying to render that at anything over the minimum settings and those are definately not minimum settings...

You've got to be kidding. Easier than KotOR? At least in NWN2 there are some fights in which you can be killed. You can go through KotOR without any equipment at all and never be in danger of dying once. :crazy:

Technically you don't even need that level of fighter. You can take martial weapon prof as one of you feats and hit eldritch knight at level 5-6 depending on whether you are a wizard or a sorceror.

Yes, yes it is. I know that I played on hardcore. As long as you buff your spellcaster up before you start throwing those damage dealers around it's not so bad though. At least for me as long as I wasn't throwing AoE's I would only get a few enemies coming at me rather than the whole mob. I could throw disintergrates around without much trouble, but the moment you let go of that chain lightening...

Apparently Emery is out with a wrist injury now. The Sens are getting into an ever deeper hole. Emery was playing better than Gerber was and if the Sens could score more than one goal his record would have been much better than his 3-2 is now. <_<

What? WHAT?? you say this like its a good thing. New rules: Wear clothes while posting... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Maybe we should start a new thread. What are you not wearing right now?

That selection of classes isn't that bad. You've got sorceror that can cast at 13th level and he can fight almost as well as an 11th level fighter without quite as many feats. Use some of those sorceror powers to buff up and he should be able to hold his own quite well. It's better thought out than a Fighter/Mage/Cleric/Thief. "

That's not what I meant, and yes merchants so far seem to be convenient enough that I haven't had to resort to muling. Also I'd prefer never having to swap out any characters. Keep in mind that I'm early in chapter 1 and don't know what's ahead. The game has already taken three NPCs from my party in West Harbor, so I'm wary of losing more. In general I'm used to having the people who join me stay with me to the end. Or I say the hell with it and go solo. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Don't worry about losing that much of your party again. That was a one time thing only. You will end up swapping out one character at a time for a certain quest here or there so that they can show you where to go, but that's it. Jaheira, Keldorn, Nalia, Imoen and Yoshimo have this behavior. For the first four its due to quests and you ultimately get them back, but it still leaves the party depleted until they return. I usually bring Yoshimo or make my character a rogue of some sort to cover for Imoen, but the rest always annoyed me to some extent. Usually I try to time their antics so they won't happen in the middle of some other quest, but that's after I know about their behavior. I'm just particular about it is all. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ah. I never used Jaheira and never did Keldorn's quest. I don't recall Nalia leaving beyond the "I'll wait for you at the quest location", but that was before you even got her in the party. Could be missing something there. Imoen going missing wasn't so bad, because it was all of maybe 30 minutes into the game and you likely already picked up another thief before you lost her and another mage isn't hard to find. Yoshimo was the only one I didn't like, because he was the only pure thief in the game. <_<

There seems to be a rather large number of people who like to post while nekkid.

What the heck are you talking about? You make it sound like the game disbands your party every 5 minutes when that is not the case. With the exception of one area that I can recall you are never required to swap out more than one character at a time. When did party members take off in BG2? I don't recall anything like that although it has been several years since my last playthrough. Unless you are somehow referring to Imoen or Yoshimo. EDIT: I always managed to find a store by the time my main character had filled up his inventory, so I never really needed to use my NPC's as pack mules.

You could say that. It's very possible that it was a reciprocal deal. She gives you a greatsword, and you give her a little bit of the greatsword know what I mean? yeah! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Didn't take long to find somewhere to use that smilie eh? Neeshka didn't give me a greatsword. I could have used one too as I was still using a plain +1 greatsword at that point. :'(

I was a level 18 Aasimar Paladin when I finished the game. 19th level overall. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> How many hours did it take you to finish the OC? I understand this is going to vary for everyone, depending how you play the game. I'm just curious if you thought the game was too long, too short? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I got it on the 1st, but didn't really start playing until the 2nd. I think I easily spent on average between 8-10 hours each day playing the game. So it took me somewhere between 40-50 hours to complete the game and there were a couple things that I didn't do and a few areas that I just ran straight through. I very much enjoyed every minute of the game. I could easily have continued playing for much longer, however compared to what usually passes for a campaign these days it was a much appreciated change of pace to not be able to finish the game over a weekend. Even though I could have contined on, I think the game was a good length for what it set out to do.

I was a level 18 Aasimar Paladin when I finished the game. 19th level overall.

They are strategy game. I know there are several people on the boards that have played some of those. There was a group of them running a game of HOI awhile ago. Haven't heard anything about it lately.

I've definately lost sleep to it. I've ended up playing till at least 2am everyday. Played till 6am on Saturday morning. Took me a week to beat it. Much longer than it took me to complete either KotOR which were both completed over a weekend.

Really? On my system with a P4 3.0 and 1GB memory the load times are excellent. When it loads a particularly large area it may take a little while, but most of the time its quite fast. Compare it to a game like Gothic and it feels like I'm in heaven. (I just wish I could have installed the game on my raptor instead, but the insane patch requirements preventd that from happening). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Another 1.7Ghz processor here and I've got some pretty lousy load times here also. Definately not fast, but it isn't the worst I've seen by any means. Most area transitions are 15-30 seconds while world map transitions can hit over a minute.

You can't set it to 0, however 0.10 is practically instant.. My computer runs the game so slowly that I figured that the by the time the click registered the mouse had just moved past what I wanted to click on. :cool: The select party button would be very much appreciated though.

Damnit! I would have beaten it before you if my game hadn't crashed! And I think we seem to be going in opposit directions. Started as a Aasimar paladin, going for a human rogue-ish type next.

There is a setting for that in the options menu under the gameplay tab I think. It's right on the bottom middle of that section I believe.