Baldurs gate - how should I start.

[Jamski]

Are you after BG1? Try Amazon's used games sections - I remember seeing it a few days ago (looking for PS:T, which is now in the post )

-Jam

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Jamski


What's this "return to the game" ? I never leave.

-Jam

[lord of the mark]

ok so i come back to the game (yeah i know )

I go looking in the iron throne for

Spoiler:

that lady tamoko told me about]

well guess what, i cant find her. Maybe i killed her earlier, and dont remember. The journal doesnt record everyone ive killed, and I doubt that her death will be recorded there. maybe i can still pick up the

Spoiler:

diary. But where is it?

This part of the game is starting to get like - dare I say it - Myst

I mean ive got to do the right puzzles in the right order (well at least their plot driven and make sense and are not totally arbitrary). But the most annoying thing is how poorly documented they are - I DO NOT want to have to keep a pencil and paper nearby, and record things in that - (which is what I find annoying about Myst)

And sorry, RL does call, and I cant play every night. Now in a TBS game I can generally look things over and get a sense of the position and what needs to be done from the info the interface makes available to me. At most i may have forgotten things like enemy units that have disappeared into the fog of war, some diplo nuances, whatever. Not stuff essential at a basic level. Seems like playing RPG's, at least ones with this interface, requires a more serious time commitment.

Do we have a word (analagous to sunday gamer) for someone who needs to take multiday breaks from gameplaying???

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by Jamski
Are you after BG1? Try Amazon's used games sections - I remember seeing it a few days ago (looking for PS:T, which is now in the post )

-Jam

There are two copies, second-hand, and they're trying to sell them for £14 and £16.
There is no way that I'd pay that unless postage were included - which it isn't.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Jamski
Ah, the summer before I wnt to university... I had such a beautiful girlfriend - looked like Heidi Klum - and two days after getting to the Uni, she let me know that she'd just got engaged to some **** called Gary Women, eh?

That soudns awful! She ust got engaged to someone else while you were together? I really hope that doesn't happen to me Though I can see the resemblance to Heidi Klum I really am a lucky boy

Originally posted by Jamski
Give me IE games and SMAC instead... Oh, and Mrs Jamski of course Nearly forgot

Hehe

[centrifuge]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
ok so i come back to the game (yeah i know )

I go looking in the iron throne for

Spoiler:

that lady tamoko told me about]

well guess what, i cant find her. Maybe i killed her earlier, and dont remember. The journal doesnt record everyone ive killed, and I doubt that her death will be recorded there. maybe i can still pick up the

Spoiler:

diary. But where is it?

LOTM, this is a straight up spoiler so only read if you absolutely want/need to know where she is.

Spoiler:

You can find her on the top floor of the Iron Throne, towards the back room from where the big battle took place earlier(she retuned to the IT after the battle took place).

[Jamski]

There are two copies, second-hand, and they're trying to sell them for £14 and £16.
There is no way that I'd pay that unless postage were included - which it isn't.

You'd be a fool not to. It won't get any cheaper over time. Some games are turning into colllectors items, and there's a real market for them. Untill SMAX was rereleased last month, it was selling for $90+ on Ebay.

I got IWD1 for 40 euros - second hand - with both expansions and thought that was a good deal. PS:T, on its way right now, is costing me more than I like to say (Mrs Jamski might see this) but these games are seriously worth the money. A new game costs 40-50 euros and might suck arse. IE games are always good. Join my religion for free.

-Jam

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by centrifuge


LOTM, this is a straight up spoiler so only read if you absolutely want/need to know where she is.

Spoiler:

You can find her on the top floor of the Iron Throne, towards the back room from where the big battle took place earlier(she retuned to the IT after the battle took place).

Im sure i looked there but i'll try again.

thanks in any case.

[Jamski]

If not you can use the CULA console to "debug" her in. Want me to find the code for her?

-Jam

[Dis]

Originally posted by duke o' york
Damn!
Some cheeky monkey has outbid me on ebay, and I'm not going to fork out loads of cash for a game that's (a)second hand, and (b) years old.
Oh well, back to the search screen.

where do you live? you don't have large electronics stores with bargain bins? BG1 come packaged with BG2 in some configurations. I have seen several at Fry's electronics. It was $10 U.S.

I bought BG1 but my disc doesn't work anymore . The same thing happened with my brother's discs. I reached baldur's gate city, but I uninstalled the game, and cannot reinstall it

Also I saw Planescape: Torment at Walmart bargain bin for $10 packeged with another game. It is also at Fry's electronics for $10 U.S. Now finding it in german could be a bit tougher

[Jamski]

Don't worry Diss, I have the English version in the mail Finally my collection of IE games will be complete.

(Apart from TotSC, but that's hardly a "game")

-Jam

[centrifuge]

Originally posted by Dissident

Also I saw Planescape: Torment at Walmart bargain bin for $10 packeged with another game. It is also at Fry's electronics for $10 U.S. Now finding it in german could be a bit tougher

I'd grab up a couple of copies if I was you, they are selling for good prices on Ebay

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by Dissident

where do you live?

Originally posted by me

There are two copies, second-hand, and they're trying to sell them for £14 and £16.

Er......

Jamski, the trouble with just going to buy it like that is that I haven't been round any games shops yet, and I'd prefer to look there first. I'll maybe have a peek this weekend and might buy it from Amazon on Monday iff I can't find anything. I have also put in another ebay bid, so I'll have to see how that goes too.
Do I get any decent robes for joining your religion? What are the level 1 spells like?

Originally posted by Jamski

PS:T is costing me more than I like to say (Mrs Jamski might see this).

[Jamski]

You get Robes of Jamski +5
Armour class reduced to -20
Permanant Improved Haste when equipped.
STR, DEX, CON, INT, WIS & CHA all set to 25
Permanant Timestop when equipped.



-Jam

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Jamski
If not you can use the CULA console to "debug" her in. Want me to find the code for her?

-Jam

never mind, found the required item on Minsc when i resurrected him, apparently he died in the same fight where we killed the lady in question, and somehow ended up with the item (is that why all his "stuff "
disappeared?)

[Jamski]

Sounds like a bug to me. When he dies all his stuff falls on the floor...

Ah - but sometimes quest items aren't picked up, but given to the party. I suppose you had Minsc in the #1 slot? In that case the item was given to him, but he was "greyed out" so you couldn't get the item off him.

Sure.

I just finished ToB again today, and took the "nice human" option. This was with my "love birds" party with the mod for multiple romances, and I couldn't leave my 4 lovers and Keldorn behind

Very funny reading the epilogues where I head off into the sunset with 4 different people

-Jam

[Jamski]

PS:T has arrived. Goodbye world.

-Jam

[Bonaparte]

I played PS:T got bored and uninstalled it...there wasn't enough action in it, but heck if you like it great...I just didn't.

[lord of the mark]

i have hardly played the last few days. Hope to get back to it some time this weekend

Need to go back to Silvershield estate, and undertake the quest that will make movement around BG city easier (now that ive got Minsc back for heavy lifting will be easier) Then hunt around shops for "stuff" for Minsc. Then try the ducal palace again.



BTW, theres no "pouncing" in BG, is there?


Time for a new BG thread?

[Jamski]

Time for a new BG thread?

Do the honours LotM

And I'm not sure what you mean by "pouncing"

-Jam

[lord of the mark]

well of course what I meant was any physical action towards an NPC that would be called pouncing by the interface - or something like that.


Apparently though some lowlife posters use it to mean deliberately posting a word like "pounce" when a forum (or thread?) reaches one less than some nice round number. IIUC this is frowned on by the moderators - so lets none of us do it please

[rah]

lord of the mark,
We've hit the 500 mark on this one, So I'm closing it.
Please feel free to start a new one and I'll post a link to it in this thread.

Thanks.

[rah]

New thread

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...hreadid=107585