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Baldurwinter's Dragondale of Elemental Evil II
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I did this with my Barbarian. I absolutely destroyed BG1 with a Barbarian. The only time I had a party was for the very last dungeon. However, my Barbarian fought Sarevok man to man because thats how he rolls.
Anyway, I would start with the Baldur's Gate games, because if you start with the Icewind Dale games, you'll be very disappointed by Baldur's Gate's combat. At least Baldur's Gate II's. Which would be a pity, you just can't go playing the best RPG ever while thinking how much you hate the combat. Which is actually quite fun, when not compared to Icewind Dale II.
I would play Temple of Elemental Evil, but last time I tried it the scrolling was awfully slow.
Yep that's the one.
I heard about their work on the Keep mod but like all mods I'll get interested only when they have something playable. Here's hoping though!
Darkness over Daggerford
http://www.ossianstudios.com/pages/games.html
And when you're done with that, lose yourself in...
The Aielund Saga
I can tell you from my own personal experience that playing through the Aielund saga was one of the best gaming experiences I've had. It's one of the few modules for NwN that produced genuine emotional responses from me to events in the game. I wish I could explain them but I'd give away huge plot spoilers, so I'm not even comfortable posting them in spoiler tags. :lol:
I really can't recommend Aielund enough; I had a great time with it, and for me it's probably the best NwN story I've ever played.
This isn't meant to slight Daggerford, because it was also excellent and I enjoyed it as well. Just not as much as Aielund.
Steam, Planetside 2
Yeah, the player-created content for NWN was leaps and bounds beyond the original campaign (even with the expansions). Aielund and DoD are both brilliant, but that's only scratching the surface - there are literally dozens of top notch player-created mods for NWN that add an almost infinite amount of replayability. I don't think I'll ever be able to play all of the ones that I want to try.
Along with DoD and Aielund, you've got to try Citadel, Dragon Dominant, Caereena: Krakona Rising, and Almraiven and so, so many more.
Must've been tough to pull off with his balls dragging on the ground.
Duly noted; I'll look at those tomorrow evening when I have some free time at home.
Steam, Planetside 2
BE THERE OR BE SQUARE.
White FC: 0819 3350 1787
I know, right?
Seriously...
Then, when Criosa tearfully left to marry the king of the opposing nation instead of marrying my character, because it was the only way to save what was left of her shattered kingdom, I was both crushed and enraged. Crushed by the loss, because until then it'd been an enjoyable "romance" substory that wasn't overly dramatic and poorly written; it was a sudden plot twist that I wasn't ready for and it really caught me off guard...excellently done, even though I was sitting there going "NO! That's not FAIR!".
Then enraged at the manipulation and betrayal of the enemy king...and my only thought at that moment was "please, let me have one chance to cleave him in two and get her back".
Bringing the arrogant fool down and reclaiming Criosa was one of the more satisfying parts of the game.
It's not often that a game is successful at making me care about the characters and what happens to them...this series did just that.
Steam, Planetside 2
So hard
That series was truly glorious, if you enjoyed the Aielund Saga Citizen I suggest you look up the MTS Trilogy. Good times, ESPECIALLY with a friend. It starts at level 15 and goes all the way into the mid 30s of epicness. Enjoyable stuff, over the top but just the right amount. Re-emphasis: Do it with one or two buddies. Multiplayer makes it perfect.
White FC: 0819 3350 1787
Eh, not really. He wore a Nut Bra of Badassery.
Did this Aielund mod have more JRPG-style emotional tugs? Heck, even western RPGs are falling flat for me lately. Sometimes I feel like slapping Atton Rand, Dak'kon, and Aribeth. What's weird is that even a cheap war movie or lame fantasy book can draw a lot out of me.
You shut your mouth right now. I've lived a life of broken dreams and I don't need to add another one to the list.
Edit: I'm in the middle of a cleric run right now. My first playthrough was as a mage. I can't believe this series started ten years ago. The problem with being a cleric is that some of my favorite NPCs are clerics as well, like Viconia and Tiax. I'm picking up Viconia soon, and I'll be rolling with a two cleric party.
Also, I did a bad thing yesterday.
My main character was my main character, fullstop. He was a sorcerer or a mage or fighter or a rogue, and he always did the cool stuff. Clerics? They existed to heal him and bash skulls while he did it. Druids? Well. They buffed, a little. And turned into wolves, and ate some people. But that guy was the hero*.
Now, icewind dale? The characters were all my boys, and sometimes girls. They were members of an elite fighting squad, everyone was tinkered with and designed to work with one other. No one was expendable, save perhaps for the drow rogue1/magex who sucked for half the game and spent most of his time failing at using a magical bow to kill things before I found enough spells for him to use.
God damn was taking on the orcs epic. So epic. So awesome. Spells of all sorts just tearing shit up.
Sometimes I wish I could play bg2 that way, but touching the bioware characters too much feels icky. They're their own people, you know? I can't just go and micromanage them and rework their spell lists all the time. Thats Minsc, I can't fuck with him. He's the man, he has Boo. The miniature giant space hamster. They get the best armor and weapons I can find and off they go. That's Jaheira, you think she wants me to tell her to use barkskin all the time? Hell no, I value my hide!
Best rpgs ever, really.
* Baby chomping monster who got his kicks out of sunfiring in crowded rooms and petrifying children after turning their parents into squirrels and feeding them to his pet druid.
Someone will be dropping by to see you soon...
The Transformers Fandom: Consistantly bitching about something or another since 1984.
http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/03/28/warbot_001/ - "WARBOT In Accounting"
Black: 0389 8074 1114 - 3DS: 4940-5435-1167 - PSN: Haarvest
You know what this means.
Oh yes.
(And suddenly I don't have any free time anymore. Oh well!)
Soo, I went to the site and discovered I need to download like a million hak-files and other stuff to actually play this. Are they going to affect other modules as well?
Nope. Haks are only accessed by the mods that need them. And once you get the main haks like CEP you'll only need to download a few here or there. Believe me, Aielund is worth the bit of extra time it takes to get the haks downloaded and installed.
No, hakpaks are only loaded by the mods that actually use them, so it won't affect anything else (unless they have something that needs to go into your override, which I suspect they don't).
Black: 0389 8074 1114 - 3DS: 4940-5435-1167 - PSN: Haarvest
Black: 0389 8074 1114 - 3DS: 4940-5435-1167 - PSN: Haarvest
So play that last. And when you do play it, try Stefan Gagne's modules immediately. Especially Excrucio Eternum.
BG1 and BG2 are really good, but I may be the only person in the world that thinks Hordes of the Underdark (the NWN expansion) crushes them both. Definitely play through them though.
I found the IWD games very boring, but I'm not big on very combat-heavy RPGs.
Haven't played the rest.
a fading melody - my indie platformer for the xbox 360
And I played a Cleric in NWN, man Heal/Harm was crazy powerful.
Thanks guys, downloading now.
Is it reasonably playable without having the whole thing get weird or crash a lot? I remember I bought this when it came out and didn't have the patience to bother with it, but I really feel like playing a D&D game now, and I've already been through the infinity engine games and hate the NWN engine.
I used the Circle of Eight mod from a few months ago. I can't remember if there is a version like Bloodlines that only fixes bugs or if I used some rebalancing as well. It fixed the final boss fight to be the correct difficulty and stuff. Good experience with it overall.
The only thing I noticed was some weird perfomance issues from time to time (one of the later levels specifically). But this was due to the engine and not any patches. It was fairly faithful IIRC and didn't add too many annoying fan stuff. The only annoying thing I remember was that they jacked up all the chests difficulty levels in order to pick them or bash them (I think they wanted to give a reason to have a thief around).
Aielund is intended to be started with a brand new level 1 character, though I found that it can be to your benefit to start yourself at level 3 if you're a wiz/sorc, just to help survive the early levels better.
It eventually balances back out as you level up, so it's not like you're gaining a big advantage. It's up to the individual of course.
My last playthrough of Aielund was with a greatsword-wielding melee wizard. I used a lot of self buffs and my weapon through most of the areas, saving my big spells for the tougher encounters. It was a fun way to play a wizard; up on the front lines hacking away with the other melee types.
Steam, Planetside 2
I'm about halfway through the game with Co8 mod 5.0.5 and I haven't had a problem yet. I really like all of the changes they've made so far - I haven't found anything particularly obtrusive.
Such an awful user interface, but really quite a nice game. I will admit that my love of it stems largely from the presence of a handbag with razor blades on it that you can throw to decapitate people, but its charms are by no means limited to creative modification of the foul and fancy.
MASS SUCKITUDE!
Though its probably for the best that you play PS:T last - It'll make the rest of them seem mediocre.
Playing Baldur's Gate is like a VISA application to be a PC gamer. I dont even consider people who havent played them to be true pc gamers. They're just illegal immigrants into the platform.