Baldur's Gate Trilogy

I have always enjoyed BioWares RPGs and the Baldur's Gate Trilogy (from BioWare!) is without a doubt, my favourite RPG series of all time. The original Baldur's Gate was very much a dungeon crawl and had all the issues that classic dungeon crawlers have (ie how to engage your interest over long periods of just killing things). BioWare managed to solve this riddle for BG2 when they really beefed up character interaction and allowed you to romance some of the NPCs.

However, some enterprising modders have been able to mod BG2 so that you can play the original BG using the BG2 engine (enhanced graphics!). To take advantage of this, I recently started to replay BG using the BG2 engine together with a few other mods.


This is the character that I'm using. An elven archer - one of the kits available for rangers in BG2. And yes, he looks like Legolas (from Lord of the Rings) because I downloaded a picture of him off the web.
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This highlights one of my favourite tactics with the Archer. The archer has decent sneaking skills so I generally use him to scout ahead and see where enemies are (before sending in a fireball!).

I also downloaded and installed the BG NPC banter pack. The banter pack is a great addition as it really beefs up the NPC interactions. It even allows you to romance some of the NPCs. Here you can see a running dialogue as I try to romance Dynaheir.


In terms of where I am, I have cleared out most of the wilderness areas and I'm just about to enter cloakwood forest. You can see here a brief video that was taken just after I cleared out the bandit camp (unfortunately, the quality isn't good enough for you to read the text - still, you can hear the voiceover which may bring back some memories!).

btw - I'm using FRAPS to record the movies and screenshots. However, I am using the unregistered version so I'm restricted to just 30 second movies. Shame as I originally wanted to record the dream sequence which comes after this.