Is Baldurs Gate 2 good? Cause I sure as shit can’t play 3 with my Potato
100+ gbs too. why won’t these modern studios fucking compress anything anymore i need that space for my ever-growing collection of inefficient pdf ebooks and mod resources goddammit
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.
Wrong
A combatless game and an MMO don’t compare to infinity engine real time with pause.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Baldur’s Gate I and II are excellent.
Icewind Dale II is excellent.
Planescape Torment is excellent.
Neverwinter Nights is excellent.
Pillars of Eternity, the pathfinder games.
Wasteland 2 and 3.
Tyrany.
Or wait a month. Buying a ps5 would be cheaper than upgrading
Tyranny is highly underrated and probably the quickest to finish old school style crpg
