OTOH Cannot really blame him since his experience is limited and that is because he never played the games at a time when you had to muddle through. Don't come on threads of these games and act all superior because when push comes to shove your true colours show and they are not pretty. If you live in a glass house for goodness sake don't throw stones.
Yet he feels he has some license to condemn people who play games like BDO and heaven forbid even like it. It is clear though both from how he kept saying Everquest was too old a game for him to enjoy playing and using a walkthrough here as a crutch that he cannot actually get what it was like to play hard games and not have aids. The thing is while it is true the OP does pretty much hound people here about how he wants things harder and are right to call him out on it he cannot accept the criticism of his own weakness, it just does not register because he considers himself better than others here. Players that did not play games when things were not that easily spoiled by walkthroughs will find it hard to understand or even accept what you're saying. I still own the original disks, no youtube or guides back then, it was a harsh mistress. Well, what can I say, better late then never mate. It's one suggested style of approaching this game in particular. I see nothing wrong with following along with a walkthrough to get the basics. This tip, can not be pulled out of ones ass. This is not a matter of exploring, it's a matter of impossible.ģ) Identify- I'm finding rings and other items and getting basic information, A) you have to know that they have to be identify, B ) You have to have an identify spell equipped, C) you have to remove armor.
Yes, I've found how to play this character, but its not how I intended.Ģ) Good example of tedious- Ring of Wizardry, Even when I knew exactly where it is, It took about a minuet to hover my mouse over the ground to find its exact location on the ground. I have to state clearly That I love that in a lot of ways !!!ġ) Character creation- I made a Fighter/mage, a few hours later I'm finding I can't use magic at all, I researched and found you cant have armor on !. In fact I wasn't even expecting that when I started. This game has a lot of game stopping elements. I'm not playing the entire game like this "maybe I should have been more specific".
I don't think any modern game does what the classics have done. It's not action on the edge of your seat type fun, but slow intriguing and mystical fun ! My only regret is starting as a multi class, and found this should be left to advanced players, I should have played a single. You can play ten minuets or two hours and stop at your convenience and best played knowing your in it for the long haul. It's a thinking game, not an action game. After playing several hours you can use your imagination and take you toon in a different direction. Your character starts off one way and you slowly turn it into something else (much like EverQuest). Without this you would likely disregard extremely important things and trash them.Īnyway Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition was made in a time where deep and rich roll playing character building was king.
He also explains how to identify items the player would find in the world. It gave one caster class double amount of spells that can be equipped at a single time. It would have been imposable to find this ring without his help. I few hours in he found a Ring of Wizardry in the wilderness next to a tree. I'll give an example, but please understand this happens a lot, I say this is a must because things happen and important items have to be found that would be impossible to know by simply winging it. For several days I would watch ten minuets and play an hour and repeated this over and over with some variation of a different class, picking up different companions and talk to more NPCs. I found a YouTube beginning to end walkthrough with commentary and followed along. HOWEVER I stumbled upon a cool trick that I would suggest to all new players, infact I would say its a must for this game in particular: A few months ago I found it on a Steam sale for $5 (now $19.99) and kept it on my Library but still afraid to hit download.īacking up twenty four hours, I began my research only to get frustrated with my beginners tips and YouTube guides, nothing seemed truly good and left more questions than answers.
Other things like it looked old, too much reading, slow paced and will it work on Windows 10 (it does without mods or patches). For years I felt I had to ignore old school Baldur's Gate because I don't understand D&D rules.