Why is Siege Of Dragonspear so good? Answer here!

[SonicMage117]

So I haven't gotten it yet bit heard that it makes the classic characters even better than what they were. I also hear the writing in general is much better that the original BG and BG2. Is it so?

 

Hmmmm... What did you like about the beautiful Baldur's Gate expansion pack? What is so different about it that people love it so much? Please answer with your thoughts, it's nice to see Baldur's Gate return!!!

Edited January 11, 2018 by SonicMage117

[algroth]

It's not April Fools yet, y'know.

Edited January 11, 2018 by algroth

[Mamoulian War]

Trolling is not cool, mkay?

Edited January 11, 2018 by Mamoulian War

[SonicMage117]

How is this thread a joke or trolling?

 

I'm asking a legitimate question, and wondering if the reviews were correct because I was wondering if I should buy the game.

 

I'll ask elsewhere to get serious answer Goodnight...

[Mamoulian War]

On a serious note, just look at the top 100, not a single person voted for it, and almost every other Infinity Engine game got loads of votes. That should give you little bit of an answer.

 

And then, there is a search button, jist search for Dragonspear, and you'll find a lot of posts about the Expansion pack. In this forum, game/expac like this would not get unnoticed. So the Search button, would be the first thing to recommend.

 

You'll get much better answer on the game in the forum, where are people in love with older Infinity games, than from other sites and reviews from people, who compare it to Call of Duty and stuff...

 

EDIT: SoD was here talked to infinity and back to oblivion. After the tons of discussions about the xpac here, and the general outcome out of them, most of the people will see your post as an attempt to troll

 

I've never played it, so I will not comment on the quality, just I can freely say, that I would never pay for it more than 5 bucks after reading all the stuff about it.

Edited January 11, 2018 by Mamoulian War

[Katphood]

 

[algroth]

Here's a pretty good and 'fair' rundown of it, starting on 34:30:

 

[Messier-31]

Siege of Dragonspear is alternately decent and mediocre.

 

It's not a joke, nor trolling.

[Mamoulian War]

Yeah, no one is arguing about that, but it's still far far away from the statements in the OP about which a lot of people would happily argue

Edited January 11, 2018 by Mamoulian War

[ShadySands]

I enjoyed the game but it's all over the place

[injurai]

[Tigranes]

It's not. It's OK, and if you are really hankering for fresh IE content even if it's not as good, then it'll serve just fine.

[HoonDing]

Oh, it's that SJW game.

[Bartimaeus]

Here's a pretty good and 'fair' rundown of it, starting on 34:30:

 

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​Man, that guy surprisingly has great dry humor.

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​(e): Yeah, this guy is great.

Edited January 12, 2018 by Bartimaeus

[algroth]

His channel is great, I've really liked his video essays so far. First ran across him due to this Tyranny video, which you can see here:

 

[Amentep]

I actually liked Siege of Dragonspear.  It wasn't the best or worst thing done with the IE engine.  I don't really get the hate (but then I don't really get the hate for Beamdog's updates, either), but I can understand being un-moved by it to rave positively.

[Bartimaeus]

​Fun fact: the latest versions of both BG1:EE and BG2:EE still have graphical bugs leftover from when they applied the 1pp mod (a graphical mod for the original BG releases) directly on top of the game, as the 1pp installer had the exact same bugs (for example, Bolts +2 using the projectile animation of Bolts +3, while Bolts +3 never got what should've been their projectile animation to begin with - this happened because the 1pp installer patched Bolts +2 correctly, but then repatched Bolts +2 with Bolts +3's changes because the wrong filename was accidentally copy+pasted). Something about them directly applying a mod to the retail version of the game that they sold...and then not even bothering to check and make sure that everything was correct...just seems kind of funny to me.

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​At least Siege of Dragonspear was a semi-original endeavor, if nothing else.

Edited January 12, 2018 by Bartimaeus

[Amentep]

I can kinda get that - if that's the reason.  Having never played a BG mod, its not something that I'd have ever noticed playing them.

[Tigranes]

Oh, there's no reason to 'hate' SOD. At least it was original content sold for money, unlike everything else they ever sold. It just didn't seem to be anything great, but it's always nice to have more original IE content, so I'm glad it's around.