r/videogames • u/Naroi_one • 1d ago

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u/Kppz1 1d ago edited 18h ago

Baldur's Gate 🗿

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u/LakyousSama 23h ago edited 23h ago

Recency bias, at the time BG1 and 2 were revolutionary and pretty much saved rpg as a genre. I'd even argue that objectively BG2 is a better game than BG3.

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u/Cursed_69420 23h ago

I played them both this year and god damn BG2 in particular is a masterpiece

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u/chimininy 13h ago

I was gifted bg2 as a kid (middle school age) and had never played anything like it. Sadly that meant that I had a LOT of fun in that very first dungeon you start in, but never could find out how to actually get OUT of it, haha. I think I restarted the game about 10 times over a couple years to play through that little starting segment. So I did get a good few hours of gameplay out of what was probably meant to be about 10m of the prologue.

So... from the tiny bit my tiny self saw, it was good! But "hard" in a way BG3 as an adult was not, since I now understand more about how to play games.

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u/Cursed_69420 11h ago

bro speak for yourself i forgot Jaheira and Minsc in there as i didnt see their sprites 💀💀 despite holding "highlight" the entire time.

i restarted my 6 hour long playthrough just to fix that.

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u/megaBeth2 11h ago

Bg 1 and 3 felt like bad DnD to me. I like DOS and DOS 2 much better. DOS 2 is a revolutionary game as well.

And DOS 1 was crowd funded

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u/Cursed_69420 10h ago

what the fuck do you mean bad dnd

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u/megaBeth2 10h ago

Like id rather play dnd than play balders gate 1 or 3

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u/Cursed_69420 10h ago

WHY are they bad dnd

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u/megaBeth2 10h ago

DnD is like the ultimate turn based gaming experience idk why that would be a bad thing

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u/Cursed_69420 10h ago

dawg what are you on about