Baldurs gate - how should I start.

[centrifuge]

I've only played morrowind briefly, the little bit I played was 1st person, and it seems that you have to "learn" about your character, kind of like in BG.

[centrifuge]

Oh, and the little I played ran smooth on my machine, but its a 3.0ghz p4c with 1 meg ram, and 128meg radeon 9700

[DarkCloud]

I assume that you can do ulgoth's beard anytime you want (assuming that you've gotten far enough to find it on the map of course.) I've got BG-the original saga (which comes w/ the x-pack), and that is the case.

Yep. But I wouldn't recommend it until at least after you get to Baldur's Gate

[Jamski]

Oh, and the little I played ran smooth on my machine,

but its a 3.0ghz p4c with 1 meg ram, and 128meg radeon 9700

ROTFLMAO

-Jam

[centrifuge]

Glad I could amuse you Jamski, btw that is supposed to say 1 gig of RAM, oops

[Jamski]

That's what I thought, but I still laughed so hard.

Not laughing @ you, but @ the idea of a computer with a 3.0ghz processor and 1meg RAM kills me.

I'm off again

-Jam

[centrifuge]

yeah, that would be quite the bottleneck

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Jamski
Morrowwind is complicated, LONG, dull, pretty graphics that run slow even on super machines and lacking in story-drive. Sure its more "freeform" than the BG games, but it does this at the cost of storyline.

Oh, and its all 3D first person crap too.

-Jam

why is first person bad? I mean I assume its easier to see stuff than in say, Myst. My impression is that first person is associated with hack and slash like Diablo, am I wrong? But thats not supposed to be the case with Morrowind?

[centrifuge]

I think it's just a matter of perspective. In an RPG, I personally prefer the "God-Like" view and control that games like BG provide.

[Bonaparte]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
why is first person bad? I mean I assume its easier to see stuff than in say, Myst. My impression is that first person is associated with hack and slash like Diablo, am I wrong? But thats not supposed to be the case with Morrowind?

Actually the 1st person view in Morrowind doesn't make it easy to see stuff, especially if you get attacked by something small like a rat...a top down view like in BG is much better.

You're right Morrowind isn't hack'n'slash it's more like "walk around and get bored" so eventually I'll end up killing the first thing I see just to get some action in the game.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Bonaparte


Actually the 1st person view in Morrowind doesn't make it easy to see stuff, especially if you get attacked by something small like a rat...a top down view like in BG is much better.

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I didnt mean that 1st person would make it easier to see - i meant that the only 1st person game ive played was Myst, where it was incredibly awkward to look for anything, but that was cause it was a slideshow, I guess, and i assume Morrowind is at least better than that. So youre saying that its still much worse than top down like BG, and not worth any gain in immersion?

[Bonaparte]

I'd say you'd feel more immersed, which is cool when in a town walking around talking to people or when in a store and are buying things, but when it comes to combat it isn't very good. When walking around in the wilderness the immersion isn't necessary because at that point you just want to get from point A to B and the pretty view just slows you down as it's more difficult to see where it is that you are going. In a nut shell...No...it isn't worth any gain in immersion.

[Jamski]

Exactly.

Not to mention I like to see my character in action.

-Jam

[NeOmega]

Off the current topic.....

I am bored of Icewind Dale. It's storyline is just not doing any kind of job of grabbing me.

Also, Icewind dale seems to have had alot less TLC put into it than BG did. I mean, the characters names always will say "townsperson" until you talk to them, the "movies" are simply animations of a book's pages being turned underneath candlelight while a narrator reads a story, and there is no real character based storylines.... or quests. Only one city so far..... I guess later there is a small gnome city underground.

That's my 2 cents on Icewind Dale.

[DarkCloud]

Icewind Dale I experienced severe backlash for "being too short"... so, to engender greater customer support- black Isle put an expansion on the internet for free "Trials of the Luremaster"- and released an expansion pack for money.

IWD II is much better than IWD I