Is Baldurs Gate 2 good? Cause I sure as shit can’t play 3 with my Potato

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Baldur’s Gate 2 is the reason there was so much hype for Baldur’s Gate 3. It’s considered one of the best western RPGs of all time and often included in the list of greatest video games of all time.

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BG1 gets a lot of nostalgia shoutouts but BG2 had significantly better storytelling with a lot more actual choices to make and much more in-depth character interaction. Also, the voice lines weren’t quite as repetitive or obnoxious.

Also the plot of 1 and the way it presented itself was just… janky.

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big upgrade in the visuals from BG1 to BG2

Personally I thought the overall plot from 1 was better because it kept you guessing “what is really going on” till close to the end where 2 basically told you what was happening in the opening sequence.

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5 points

That’s fine, though for me, I personally don’t directly measure my story enjoyment by how much I am surprised by something.

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29 points

Baldur’s Gate I and II are excellent.

Icewind Dale II is excellent.

Planescape Torment is excellent.

Neverwinter Nights is excellent.

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Neverwinter Nights 2 Mask of the Betrayer is

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5 points

It’s incredible, especially compared to the incredibly bland and forgettable storyline of the main game itself

Mask of the Betrayer stands among the greatest. Even the insufferable NWN UI cannot ruin it.

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11 points

oh man Neverwinter Nights

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22 points

it makes my cpu overheat very quickly lol
i’m waiting for winter : (

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Combination Space Heater and Gaming PC

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21 points

Just get a job that allows you to afford the PC hardware to run the latest games and then never turn it on because you’re too busy.

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13 points

I don’t have the money nor the time to game. (I’m a student, life is pain.)

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It’s mid. You aren’t missing much. It’s 90% flash, 10% substance. Unless you’ve been a Minsk & Boo Stan waiting in the shadows for 25 years.

Personally I’d go steal Disco Elysium again. Or do the free-to-play class stories in Star Wars: the Old Republic. Light side Sith Warrior, and any alignment Imperial Agent are pretty awesome self-contained stories.

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14 points

Wrong

A combatless game and an MMO don’t compare to infinity engine real time with pause.

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BG3’s combat is terrible. D&D 5e is bad enough on tabletop, but in a video game it just does not work at all. D&D needs an incredibly skilled GM to paper over all the glaring problems (and any GM good enough to run D&D well probably knows enough to run something else instead), and just conflicts horrible with the rigid precision of a GM-less video game, nor does its dungeon-crawling resource attrition paradigm work with a fixed narrative world.

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8 points

Ok, sure, I thought we were talking about BG2

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9 points

LS inquisitor is pretty great too

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7 points

In addition to being mid, it’s also super biggy atm. Some people have it be fine until the later acts, but our grouos has barely made any progress do to all of us experiences crashes super often

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