Is BG1 worth playing? Or is it better to skip straight to 2?
Is BG1 worth playing? Or is it better to skip straight to 2?
Luis Powell
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Brandon Davis
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Kevin Kelly
Beamdog is guilty of a number of different crimes. Here are the major ones.
1. The Enhanced Editions are essentially a collection of free mods that had existed for nearly twenty years. Beamdog gathered them all up, slapped "Enhanced Edition" on it and resold it as a new product. There's very very little in the Enhanced Editions that wasn't already out there, and most of it is stuff you don't want (like obnoxious character outlines).
2. The games didn't sell so well and the originals were still far outselling them, even twenty years after their release, so Beamdog had EVERY digital distributor stop selling the originals and ONLY sell the Enhanced Edition. If you want to buy a digital copy of the originals now, they're "bundled" into the Enhanced Edition. Now these scumbags can claim sales from people just wanting to buy the originals as their own.
3. The infamous 600+ bugs on launch. The game is still riddled with bugs (as even a perfunctory glance over their forums show) but the fact that it took nearly two years for them to get a game that had been working fine for 20 years to reach playability after launch is telling of their wild incompetence.
4. This is where we get to the ones that really piss people off. Beamdog couldn't just remaster the game, they had to fuck with the content too. New dialogue for existing NPCs like Jaheira, Viconia, Safana, Kivan, et cetera was written in to make the characters more progressive and leftist friendly. Beamdog shills will argue that "adding content isn't changing content XDDD" but it is when the new content changes the core personalities of the existing characters. This is in addition to adding a slew of their own LGBT (hitherto there were none in Baldur's Gate) NPCs, all flooded with OP attributes and magic items to encourage people to play them despite their cancer.
5. Siege of motherfucking Dragonspear.
Joseph Lee
Worth playing if you use the Tutu mod.
Wyatt Jackson
Honestly. Yas Forums often gets mad at me for this opinion, but I say skip to 2. One was a great game, for it's time, but it hasn't held up as well as 2. 1 is good, 2 is a masterpiece. And this advice is doubly true if this is one of your first cRPGs.
If you're super familiar with the genre and the older games especially and know how to deal with all their old quirks and difficulties, there's something to be said about taking a character from 1 all the way through to ToB. But if that's not you, then chances are you'll play 1 and bounce out within a few hours. There's so just so many absolutely insane and infuriating mechanics with low level DnD that the whole experience just feels clunky as hell, and almost all the greatest moments and memories in the series happen in 2 anyway.
Anything you need to know in 2 is explained to you, you'll miss some details but nothing major. My advice has always been to start with 2 and then if you absolutely love the series, the next time you replay it, do a playthrough from 1.
Grayson Harris
It's a low level adventure so no cool magic and stuff.
Skip to BG2
Nolan Sanchez
This guy has it right too. Don't pay for the Beamdog version, pirate the original versions.
Anthony Cruz
1 is better than 2, but don't play the EE.
Jackson Allen
>everything has to be flashy and boomy and explode a lot and swords must be BIG and FLASHY because that is fun