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Nestled above the cliffs that rise above the sword coast…
Baldur’s gate is considered one of the greatest RPG games of all time, but does it stand up, does the story make sense, how have the mechanics aged?
Join me as we fight through the Nashkel mines, stalk through the Cloakwood, then scour the sewers of Baldur’s Gate to avenge our foster father Gorion, and discover our own dark heritage.
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Damn, I never even knew about the "reveal all" feature of the game!
Who's Baldur?
18:55 – Wasn't Jade Empire somewhere in there? I don't remember the year, and I'm too lazy to look it up right now, but I do remember that game.
is there an option to drop the ring and sidestep beeing framed?
I AM THE LAW
I like the "side with the druids" dialogue of them giving out free aloe vera samples.
You really didn't want to say you were the lord of traps huh
1st/2nd edition D&D is very unforgiving. Deaths were very common back then. 3rd edition seriously toned down the average amount of character deaths per campaign.
"And then over on PC" You don't count Half Life, Grim Fandango or StarCraft as PC games?
Kevin Michael Richardson has had MUCH more notable roles than as Dr Hibberts replacement haha
I spent so many hours watching my dad play this game along with Diablo. I cherish those memories
Now I’m gonna have to boot this up again.
Can you do the second game also!?
Honestly I've always wanted to know what the story was of this game, but I really can't stand the old combat system. I may just pick it up to play it on story mode or easy, but it was really awesome to hear you talk about this game in depth. I really do love the love they put into it.
As a completely* gameplay-focused player I'd never had believed I'd say this some day, but: This game is brilliant gameplay-wise, but it's too ugly for me. I tried it several times, but it's just too ugly. A remaster is desperately needed.
* well, ofc now I realise it's only 90%
Wish the same team could make More of these games
A lot of annoying things and a lot of fun too and i loved this game so much
Chunking??? Absolutely not
I cannot believe you killed Drizzt. 😑
What's this endless rerolling stats nonsense? BG stored all its files in formats that were accessible with Notepad. I just rolled once, converted the roles to Hex with the calculator app and searched for the resulting string in my save file. Then I replaced the string with 19 00 19 19 19 19 19. That gives your main character 25 in every stat.
I get an advert every 3 minutes. It’s doing my head in
“There are others, I can show you” was put back in for the switch port. So that’s good.
Was it any good?
I stayed home from work to play this on a Friday with my friend. It was fantastic Sony, PlayStation to.
I played tabletops so I already knew it was good. I prefer Neverwinter Nights 1&2, but Baldur’s Gate was up there. 3 was really interesting with Drizzt being unlockable and the anti-Paladin boss.
Baldur's Gate and Diablo I & II – the greatest fantasy games of all time
10:03 how you gonna gloss over Jennifer Hale, voice of femshep?! 😀
18:54 I thought I played Baldur's Gate but I cant remember much about it, but I DO definitely remember and still love Neverwinter Nights (even the mmo spinoff) and Mass Effect and Dragon Age are my 2 great video game loves. Add in Final Fantasy and youve got the 3 best RPG series ever made in my opinion 😀
23:50 is that Laura Bailey from Critical Role? thats almost her Jester voice, just tuned down a bit, sounds exactly like her
1:21:10 lol that rebound literally hit all the enemies, they just happened to be standing in a perfect line, how lucky!
"Was it good?"
Short answer: Yes.
I haven't checked myself, but it being on PC means that surely there is a mod for the enhanced edition that brings back the original cut scenes. This and neverwinter nights were so much fun to play and I didn't pick them up until like 2018. Love a game with depth.
Lol. Was Baldur's Gate good. What a hilarious question.
God that opening is so good from the original. Reminds me of the CGI from Stronghold. Ya it's not super clean but it doesn't look awful. Largely because everything is made with it in the scene so nothing sticks out as wrong.
Playing only console games for most of my early life and then discovering this game at a Half Price Books for $10 felt like I was baptized in the light of the gaming god. It truly felt like a holy experience lmao! It's the game that introduced me to the world of PC Western RPGs and lead me down the path of buying Fallout 1 & 2, Icewind Dale, Planescape Torment, the original gold box games, Ultima, Wizardry, everything. Final Fantasy IV and Baldur's Gate are my favorite games of all time for what the emotions they made me feel playing these games.
With Baldurs gate 3 coming up, a video on 2 would be amazing.
Baldurs Gate I & II are my favorite PC games of all time, I literally played it for years over and over, still have the discs and it's been 20 + yrs
that dude is not dr hibbert who ever told you this is a liar.
I always thought games that claim to be inspired by Baldur's Gate or push the genre forward, never really have. I mean 20 years later and we still have single turn attack animations? for real-time with pause? I imagined great sequences of animations flowing on screen, like dragon age origins kill animations but way more flushed out and that last the whole encounter, merging different animations together to make the encounter unique. The dice rolls taking place seamlessly in the background as hero and foe measure each other and faint attacks and launch combo's and defensive maneuvers in live action like watching a boxing match.
The fight is happening real-time and will auto resolve but you have control to stack a spell or ability into the queue in a timely manner reducing the need for constant pausing, while giving your character an edge in the fight.
Sort of blending rtwp and the rts genres mechanically, but more cinematic combat.
Gosh I need a ps4 version of bg1 and 2
I never got a chance to play the first one but I played the second one and I absolutely loved it
There's a mod to bring back the original cutscenes for the Enhanced Edition which is nice.
The original intro was so much better. Why would they downgrade it?
Baldur’s Baconator???
Um you must have not played to many console games if you never saw any multi disc ones riven, mist both 5 disc X-Files was like 4 final fantasy hell I could probably name 30 if i wanted to
Not saving neera and stealing her gem bag is just- aggravating to witness
39:40 onwards was perfect 🤣