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Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 1 point 5 months ago (5 children)

How are you liking BG2? It's still one of my favourite games, even though I recognise nostalgia is a big part of it. Was one of my comfort game for years.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    It’s great - I love both cRPGs and the Forgotten Realms (ever since the days of Eye of the Beholder and the gold box series). But it’s also a bit too much sometimes. You’ll be doing a quest, and you’re approached by an NPC starting a different quest while party members are nagging to do theirs first and as you’re standing there trying to decide what to do first, a group attacks you for yet another quest.

    I’m exaggerating a bit, but I really had a moment where two events happened at the same time, while I was on another quest.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It can be a bit like that, for sure! It's one of the spots where it shows its age I think, it was really the first western CRPG with these types of companion missions and I don't think they had all the scripting and timings nailed down just yet.

    Are you using any mods? And what's your party composition?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    No mods, but enhanced edition.

    At some point in BG1 I noticed my party was all women, and I decided to make that part of my character’s personality: she will work with men too but given the choice prefers adventuring with women. So now in BG2 she’s doing that too. I have Jaheira, Hexxat, Mazzy, Neera, and Aerie. Main character is a sorcerer.

    In BG1 I also said no lawful companions, and no evil, but that’s not possible now while staying all female.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Oh damn, we've been over this already have we not? I really suck at remembering usernames 😔

    Yeah you probably need one evil lady to fill out the roster. I guess Hexxat vs Viconia is personal preference, I'm personally not a huge fan of the Beamdog companions.

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