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

  • ElGosso [he/him]@hexbear.net
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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.

      • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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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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          That’s fine, though for me, I personally don’t directly measure my story enjoyment by how much I am surprised by something. edgeworth-shrug

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    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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    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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        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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      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

  • Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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    100+ gbs too. why won’t these modern studios fucking compress anything anymore ooooooooooooooh i need that space for my ever-growing collection of inefficient pdf ebooks and mod resources goddammit

  • Deadend [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Pillars of Eternity, the pathfinder games.

    Wasteland 2 and 3.

    Tyrany.

    Or wait a month. Buying a ps5 would be cheaper than upgrading

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    if you haven’t played them, baldur’s gate 3 is pretty much just divinity original sin 1/2 with the serial numbers filed on and flashier dragon age-style cutscenes

    shit just cut out the middle man and play dragon age origins if you haven’t

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    It’s still expensive but you can get refurbished steam decks right now. They’re out of stock on the absolute cheapest, but that one is a real good deal. $350 and you’d want to add your own $50-$100 sd card.

    You can also emulate a lot of consoles.

    Just in case that’s in someone’s budget! Way cheaper than a gaming PC.

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      And I can say without a doubt it runs great on my steam deck. I don’t just mean the graphics - I prefer it over my laptop because it’s easier to see - but they also got the controller support done almost perfectly. It’s the first game I’ve enjoyed this much since Baldur’s Gate II.

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    Pathfinder Kingmaker or Wrath of the Righteous are probably better alternatives, since Pathfinder fixes at least some of the problems with D&D (Pathfinder 2e fixes more than 1e did, but those games are both 1e). Kingmaker at least has some dogshit brainworms (haven’t played Wrath of the Righteous so I can’t comment on its brainworms), but is probably the best CRPG I’ve ever seen apart from that problem.

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      WotR is about leading a war against the demons, instead of ruling a kingdom under siege, so it has fewer brainworms.

      However, there is a radical centrist Lawful Neutral brained path lol

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        Idk about aeon being radical centrist, so much of the mythic quests are about you having people executed for, like, petty crimes and stuff and

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        Eventually exiling the majority of people from the crusades because none of them are morally pure enough in your eyes.

        The vibe I got from it was that it was that being lawful puts you at odds with doing good, especially when the laws are unjust.

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        Even moreso in act 4 when you enter the abyss and are then tasked with punishing people based on their laws.

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        For fucks sake, you get a literal devil as an advisor in act 3.

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        Nice, hate to ask but doesn’t the 2070 super bottleneck the 2500k?

        Also based mintchads assemble! (although I’m thinking about switching to Debian btw)

        • charlie [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          I’m sure it does, I built this computer back in 2011 (probably actually closer to 2013 thinking about it) with a 980, a few years back the 980 died and I replaced it with whatever I could get, ended up being a 2070super. Hopefully it’ll keep limping along, I’d like to get a new mobo/cpu going at some point

          I love how simple and reliable mint is, but I’ve been playing around with arch to branch out, I’ll have to check out debian!

    • TheCaconym [any]@hexbear.net
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      Been playing for about 20 hours on wine 8.1 + dxvk 2.2

      You just have to use the --skip-launcher option to avoid the atrocious Larian launcher

      Got two crashes in that time (one from the game, one kernelspace nvidia driver crash), but otherwise it’s extremely fluid on ultra quality on a 1070ti (no lag at all). It’s fucking awesome.