Forgotten Realms

[Beeble]

To me, the Forgotten Realms games, like Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights, is some of the best role playing games ever created. Especially Neverwinter Nights which is just amazing. If you havn't played any of theese, you should and if you have, what do you think of them?

[My Final Heaven]

Love them as well, except for the rigiddity of story lines, and at least in the earlier ones, there was no randomized items and very few random encounters, which meant you always got exactly the same items, which further meant that with a little fore knowledge, you could create a character specifically for the challenges you knew you would face and to use the items you knew you would get.

For instance, you could safely design a melee fighter with only 13 strength and 18 -15 everything else, because you knew once you beat the first dungeon you coul buy a belt that would put your strength up to 19 anyway.

Neverwinter is much better in this respect, mostly because of the new rules which are much nicer, except my problem with it was that it scaled enemies to your level, but fighter types gained less experience due to thier higher HD rating, so paladins and rangers were horribly useless because you could never level them, so you had to use the NPCs, which was a further drain on your exp, whereas something like a fighter bard gained wicked exp but could gain almost all the bonuses of a fighter of the same level, but be 3 or 4 levels up.

Basically, it was way way too hard to play the games with some hero classes but way to easy with others, still, very fun regardless.

[Iceman]

with my tax refund check, I'm gonna get a graphics card so I can play NWN2. I loved the first one, and I have the second one.... but I can't play it on my pc yet.

[Words of Ivory]

To be specific, I always found those particular games brilliant not because of the Forgotten Realms setting (which I've always found to be a frankly dull and tacky world), but because of the system at it's core; the Dungeons and Dragons Ruleset V2.

V3 is just too easy to manipulate, and it's far to easy to overpower yourself in the process.

[My Final Heaven]

Yeah but you could overpower yourself in BG2 just as easilly. You just had to know what Items you would get. Chaotic evil Kensai with the soul reaver for instance, was absolutely invincible. You get +8 attack damage, +4 speed (So like 7 attacks per turn or something stupid like that) and a culmulative -2 dex penalty each hit.

Pair that with some of the magic items that give you positive buffs, like the haste boots. You're up to 8 attacks a turn, and the blury stuff, and you can basically 3 hit a dragon in less than a turn.

Alternatively, take an undead hunter and use Yoshimo's special traps to kill the red dragon when you're still level 10 and grab the corsoramir, which dispels magic on each hit making you have the power of all the special paladins. So you can now use dispel magic inately, attack for +5, dispel on hit and are immune to hold charm and level drain.

[Daryl Falchion]

I loved Neverwinter Nights and Baldur's Gate. This probably stems from my childhood playing Dn'D though. The fun of creating characters, sending them off to slay enemies and find treasures and to be involved in adventures of all kinds. The battle system is a wonky at times but the sheer fun of exploration and discovery is what made them shine for me.

[Blitzballer]

I am endlessly replaying the Baldurs Gate trilogy on PC. Throne of Bhaal was a fitting ending for the storyline of your character. With the various mods you can get on the Net- new characters, areas, missions etc- its an amazing series that can offer something different each time you go back to it. Oh how i wish they would do a Baldurs Gate 3...xD

[FFking]

Loved the Baldur's gate games. But i only played the ones on PS2 (Dark Alliance or something, i think they where called) but they was awsome games. Very interesting multiplayer mode aswell.

[Blitzballer]

You never played the PC Baldurs Games? They are so much better than the console. Plus you could probably pick up the trilogy for next to nothing now...xD