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Aaah!'s Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn (PC)
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| [February 26, 2008 10:33:48 AM]
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I played a while yesterday again, and finished a job for the city thieves. I haven't gotten any interesting NPC conversations lately, but I've been feeling rather intrigued about the first Baldur's Gate.
As I said previously, I'm trying a mod based on an original Baldur's Gate 1 NPC that has been adapted for the second game. But since I haven't played the first part of the story, there are a lot of details I don't know, I just know roughly what was that part about.
So far, this hadn't been too much of a problem. When you start the game, you're at a mad wizard's dungeon and have to escape. Your sister, Imoen, wakes you up and gets you out of your cell. There you get the chance to ask her who she is and where you are - you've been tortured, so storywise you could have forgotten stuff for a while, which doesn't make your questions that odd.
So there she tells you quickly what Baldur's Gate 1 was about. Or you can just say you remember everything and then she doesn't tell you anything, in case you played the first game.
There are some other NPCs that appeared on the first part too, two of them have been captured with you by the crazy wizard and you can have them join your party. As the game goes on, you can talk to them about Baldur's Gate 1, and while you play, some quests are also related to things that happened in the first game.
So eventually you can play the whole game without knowing much about the first part and discover about that game as you play... but still I wonder how much stuff am I missing for not having played BG1.
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| [February 20, 2008 02:10:51 PM]
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Yesterday I played for about 45 minutes, and it was longer than what I had planned, but hey, it's almost impossible to play this game for less than an hour.
Why isn't it possible?
Well, I like to complete quests each time I play, so I usually pick one and play until I finish that one, and save the next ones for the next time.
Usually during quests you get other new quests, and end up with quite a long list of stuff to do (if you go around talking to the people who populate the fictional cities. Sometimes people approaches you and asks you to do stuff, but usually you've got to get the jobs yourself).
So at first this might look like a problem, because you could forgett what the heck you were doing, or what quests you still have to complete. But it's not like that because there's a journal tool that automatically saves an entry when you agree to complete a task.
It gets written as if it was a real travel journal (with date and everything). A bit like "I was approached by a woman who asked me to help his son, Tiris. She said he was attacked in the woods last night. The woman said he was very frightened, and asked me if I could go talk to him. They live in the house next to the X estate blabla"... well sort of like that.
So you can always check that list out to see what you've got to do... entries update themselves once you advance on a quest, and move to a "completed quests" list once you finish them.
Also you can write your own entries if you want to put something else you don't want to forget.
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| [February 18, 2008 10:10:06 AM]
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So I've started playing this game for the sixth or seventh time now, I lost count. And I'm still not bored of it! It's like a movie, or a book you love so much you can watch a million times, but with the difference that each time you play this, the story can change little bits. Or it can change a lot.
Since this is the first log I'm doing, I should say the PLOT OF THE GAME is the following: the god of murder Bhaal died, but before doing so, he left many children spread through the realms, which have a hidden power in them because of this. One of them will take his place later. Some of them know they are one of the children, others don't. You're one of them (naturally). In the first game, your brother Sarevok wants to become the next god of murder, by killing all the rest of the children of Bhaal, which includes you. So you've to fight him.
On the second game, you're kidnapped by a crazy mage who wants to steal your partly-divine and powerful soul. On the expansion pack, the children are being slaughtered by everyone because people fear them. You get the chance to become the next god of murder... or not.
I usually play the same way always: good party of six people, my character is a cleric (I've tried paladin and thief also, not liked them so much), and the NPCs around vary. So far I don't think I've had an NPC repeated every time I've played. But there are still NPC's I haven't played with (evil ones... I will have to play an evil party sometime).
There IS a reason why I haven't played an evil character yet. Around Baldur's Gate there's a whole community of people developing Mods for the three parts of the game, and I've been particularly attracted to the romance NPC's options (what can I say, I'm a girl).
Most of these mods will romance only good human, elf or half elf females, so well, there's not much choice if I want to try the mods (developers! get creative and do some evil one sometime, heh).
Now I'm playing one that's apparently old, but I found it only recently. It's about Kivan, an original NPC in Baldur's Gate 1 that didn't appear in BG2, so people who liked him decided to bring him back and make him romanceable. Or not. If not, then you get a different story and quests also, which sounds promising. So now I'm going to try the first path and maybe later I'll attempt the second.
Surprisingly, I haven't been able to find much spoilers around, so so far everything has been a surprise. Since I didn't play BG1 (I learned the game existed like a year after BG2 appeared in the market), I read a little bit about the character on wikipedia, so to know what was his past relation with my character.
So far it's going good. I've gathered my party through the city of Amn, and completed some easy quests. I've a list of hard quests written down now on my journal to complete.
Since I've played the game so many times, I know it by heart and I can go fast through the boring parts to the more interesting and fun ones. It still will take me a while to complete this (sigh).
This entry has been edited 1 time. It was last edited on Feb 20th, 2008 at 13:27:26.
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Aaah!'s Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn (PC)
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GameLog started on: Monday 18 February, 2008
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