Baldurs gate enhanced edition graphical overhaul
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BALDURS GATE ENHANCED EDITION GRAPHICAL OVERHAUL PLUS
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There’s also a brand new addition for Baldur’s Gate II, enigmatic thief Hexaat. Likewise Wild Mage Neera and wicked Blackguard Dorn are more entertaining with their added powers in effect. The Monk Rasaad was worryingly squishy in his previous incarnation, but the added experience turns him into a viable character here. The three new characters from the Enhanced Edition of the original also reappear, in rather more interesting guises. And most of your other favorites from the original game will turn up again here. I remain vastly entertained by the puerile antics of deranged ranger Minsc and his sidekick “miniature giant” hamster Boo. Indeed it’s the characters generally that make both the original Baldur’s Gate and this, its sequel, stand out from the crowd. A sadist and torturer he may be, yet he has enough background and depth to elicit slivers of sympathy from the player. It was a revolutionary engine when it originally came out, and it’s aged surprisingly well.Īt the pinnacle of the heap of horrors is Jon Irenicus, one of the most memorably wicked adversaries I’ve encountered in my entire game-playing career. You’ll need to master the rules and the abilities at your disposal to beat them using a real-time tactical combat system which allows you to pause to issue new orders. Hideously powerful traps and monsters, from demons to dragons, get thrown at you around every turn. If you can crest the hill, however, this is a game of enormous challenge and depth. To add to the learning curve, this is an adventure for high level characters, which means a seemingly endless waterfall of spell effects, magical items, and character powers to be learned, pondered over, and recombined to best equip your party. There are some tutorial movies, but they cover only the basics, and the remainder is tough going for the uninitiated.
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It’s based on a long-defunct flavor of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game which was complex even for those, like me, who sucked it up like a drug during their teenage years.īaldur’s Gate II makes no concessions to newcomers.
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Where the game does feel decidedly old-school is in its mechanics. You could pour hours upon hours into this and still not see it all. There’s a varied cast of characters to people your party, most with their own sub-quests, and branch points in the story that lead to radically different narratives. Vast amounts of content are crammed into the three gigabytes of download: horrible villains, lich-haunted libraries, and vibrant cityscapes. And this is a much more party-based affair than the modern fashion for single-character focus.īut in most respects Baldur’s Gate II can stand toe-to-toe with its antecedents and come off proud. The graphics might not be directly comparable, but the original game looked stunning on release, and a little spit and polish has left it looking perfectly respectable today. So I was pretty shocked to end up comparing it to much more modern RPGs like The Witcher series.