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That sounds like your first mistake, to be honest. From everything I've seen, the Enhanced Edition is trash. The only reason it's gotten decent scores on review sites is because the reviewer morons reviewed Baldur's Gate, not the "enhanced" edition of it.
I don't think there's even much difference. It's pretty much a 16.9 version with all the DLC, isn't it?
Also, playing a CRPG with a friend? That's the surest way to kill all immersion, in my experience, and your example of finding being chased around a table (and presumably laughing about it with your friend) the funniest part reinforces that. It sounds to me like some crappy MMORPG would be more your speed.
I don't get immersed in most games, least of which, RPGs which are usually rather bland with boring lore.
That's the old school experience. The game doesn't cradle you like an imbecilic baby; you might actually run into enemies that you can't defeat yet. Especially if you just set off wandering around the map as soon as the intro finishes and expect the encounters to scale to your level. Baldur's Gate isn't even particularly difficult - the first Fallout is probably tougher in that regard, for example.
But the game can randomly push you into encounters with extremely powerful bandits just by travelling. That's just punishing you for trying to lessen boring walking.
Durlag's Tower? Again, not the kind of place you should be exploring shortly after starting the game. Not sure how you even got past the Helmed Horrors acting as gate guardians.
What Helmed Horrors?
I didn't particularly like the city and wandering around and trying to find places either, but nothing to do? The city is choked full of quests and even lots of fights and monsters to kill.
...what quests?
Okay, on that I completely agree. It's a ducking MMORPG without actually being an MMORPG, and as such it's just a big, empty, dead world.
Yes, but at least I made a monk called Baldy McNutPunch.
I think you probably just don't like RPGs. Planescape: Torment has some serious issues (such as the pacing: you spend 10 hours straight just speaking to random people, then 5 hours straight fighting things), but the game world, the characters? It's a wonderful thing in some ways.
Don't get me wrong, I like the Planescape setting. It's got some cool stuff, but I want to play a game, not read a novel.
I'm actually curious if you've played Fallout 1, or Arcanum, and if you hated those games too?
Neither. I've probably heard of Arcanum, but I'm too lazy to look it up.
I don't think there's even much difference. It's pretty much a 16.9 version with all the DLC, isn't it?
Also, playing a CRPG with a friend? That's the surest way to kill all immersion, in my experience, and your example of finding being chased around a table (and presumably laughing about it with your friend) the funniest part reinforces that. It sounds to me like some crappy MMORPG would be more your speed.
I don't get immersed in most games, least of which, RPGs which are usually rather bland with boring lore.
That's the old school experience. The game doesn't cradle you like an imbecilic baby; you might actually run into enemies that you can't defeat yet. Especially if you just set off wandering around the map as soon as the intro finishes and expect the encounters to scale to your level. Baldur's Gate isn't even particularly difficult - the first Fallout is probably tougher in that regard, for example.
But the game can randomly push you into encounters with extremely powerful bandits just by travelling. That's just punishing you for trying to lessen boring walking.
Durlag's Tower? Again, not the kind of place you should be exploring shortly after starting the game. Not sure how you even got past the Helmed Horrors acting as gate guardians.
What Helmed Horrors?
I didn't particularly like the city and wandering around and trying to find places either, but nothing to do? The city is choked full of quests and even lots of fights and monsters to kill.
...what quests?
Okay, on that I completely agree. It's a ducking MMORPG without actually being an MMORPG, and as such it's just a big, empty, dead world.
Yes, but at least I made a monk called Baldy McNutPunch.
I think you probably just don't like RPGs. Planescape: Torment has some serious issues (such as the pacing: you spend 10 hours straight just speaking to random people, then 5 hours straight fighting things), but the game world, the characters? It's a wonderful thing in some ways.
Don't get me wrong, I like the Planescape setting. It's got some cool stuff, but I want to play a game, not read a novel.
I'm actually curious if you've played Fallout 1, or Arcanum, and if you hated those games too?
Neither. I've probably heard of Arcanum, but I'm too lazy to look it up.
