What if any mods do I need to have fun with the og baldurs gate games?
playing the enhanced edition if that matters
BG1&2
IDK if there's toggles or mods but some of the EE stuff is broken P2W stuff that shouldn't exist for a first playthrough
Enhanced Edition is fine as is. If you find an annoying party member that you really dislike, kill them or ignore them.
The mods that undo all the changes
I played the originals when they came out 25 years ago. No mods needed. Later i bought them on GOG, no mods needed. If you bought the enchanced edition on GOG i am pretty sure that GOG includes the classic BG1&2.
inb4 bought on Steam
LOL
Imoen Romance Mod is an absolute requirement. It's the only romance that makes sense lorewise and (with the mod) the only one that has more than like, 3 lines of dialogue.
It also works on EE.
>inb4 bought on Steam
they came in a humble bundle with the pathfinder games
the only romance that makes sense lorewise
the only one that has more than like, 3 lines of dialogue
Are you really that desperate to shill your incest fetish on some random anon
Grim. I just checked and BG1&2 on GOG includes both the Enchanced and the Classic versions of the game.
Both of those things are objectively true. I don't see any substance to your post, just whining and unspoilered spoilers.
It's the only romance that makes sense lorewise
Why doesn't Viconia make sense?
They are not, why would the other three not make sense lore wise? Not liking them isn't an argument
To say nothing of saying that they only have 3 lines of dialogue, when BG2's romances are by far the longest ones in CRPGs to this day
delete EE faggots mod is all you need
nta but are the enhanced changes that bad?
yes
yes. Its easy to ignore if u played it before or if u are not playing in english, since they only have eng dub afaik so its an easy tell, but a friend of mine ended up with a party full of homos on his first playthrough
and dont touch siege of dragonspear its not canon and its so bad it will make your eyes bleed. If you enjoy bg1/2 try icewind dale1/2 and planescape torment next
The new companions are godawful. Be sure you get the mod that restores BG1's original cutscenes too.
why would the other three not make sense lore wise?
Well lets see:
Fall in love with virgin girl-next-door who is of similar age and has repeatedly risked her neck for you and stuck by you no matter what
Fall in love with some random violent sociopathic nigger that dindu nuffin and constantly racially insults you
Fall in love with a used up widowed woman 12x your age
Fall in love with heckin quirky chungus redditor that talks like a Borderlands character
Fall in love with a retarded, ugly emo chick that can't get out 3 sentences without bawling her eyes out over nothing
Gee anon, I don't know, which of these things is more realistic behavior for a rational human male of normal temperament (the canon BG protag) and no particularly strong ideological predisposition? Maybe if you are playing as a murder-hobo or nigger yourself one of the other ones make sense, but not for normal people.
when BG2's romances are by far the longest ones in CRPGs to this day
now this is some bait
good human men fall in love with bad women all of the time
nta but are the enhanced changes that bad?
The only changes are
changing some of the terrible cutscenes with other terrible cutscenes
adding some donutsteal OCs (Neera, Dorn, and Rasaad) that you can just ignore
There is literally zero reason to play the original, everything in EE is significantly improved, especially the UI.
As I said, you not liking them isn't an argument
virgin
Kek
Nobody tell him about Irenicus
but the golems dont stop me because they know i am in irenicus' dungeon on sexual business
>Fall in love with some random violent sociopathic nigger that dindu nuffin and constantly racially insults you
>Fall in love with a used up widowed woman 12x your age
>Fall in love with heckin quirky chungus redditor that talks like a Borderlands character
>Fall in love with a retarded, ugly emo chick that can't get out 3 sentences without bawling her eyes out over nothing
haha these would never happen in real life
As I said, you not liking them isn't an argument
Since you clearly have trouble with mental models of other minds, maybe I should ask, how would you feel if you hadn't eaten breakfast this morning, anon?
Nobody tell him about Irenicus
I actually don't think it says anywhere that she got the Irenicock. IIRC she says directly he never physically touched her that way, but implies it may have happened in a "a wizard did it so it was real in my mind" kinda way. Whether that counts or not, well, that's a matter of opinion really.
But really, why would Irenicus give Imoen the Dastardly D when Bodhi is right there? Much better choice for him.
why would Irenicus give Imoen the Dastardly D when Bodhi is right there?
Because unlike you he doesn't have an incest fetish
he doesn't have an incest fetish
That's why he's the villain.
how closely related are bhaalspawn anyway
I like all the romances, of both sexes, minus Aerie. Aerie annoys the shit out of me.
They do take quite a long time in vanilla, to the point where you'd need to rest dozens of times to see them all or wait around for far too long real-time to trigger them. Jaheira's lovetalk was something silly like 100+, meaning at least, what, 40? scenes across the playthrough including ToB. Personally prefer Viconia but even the Imoen mod is fun and well-done if you don't care about pseudo-incest.
play bg3 instead
Heya anon,it's me Imoen! Just a reminder that no playthrough of Baldur's gate is complete without the Imoen romance mod. Download and romance best girl today.
imoen.blindmonkey.org
I can't believe someone beat me to it.
well-done if you don't care about pseudo-incest
what the fuck even is this board now lol
There is literally zero reason to play the original
It has better cutscenes, better UI and no weird black frames around the character sprites. There is literally no reason to not play the original besides being a fucking kid.
Enhanced Edition is unplayable unmodded. It needs more mods to become playable than the original does for that matter.
There's a coffin of A&L thread up literally everyday.
this is just lazy bait
All the same father (Bhaal), different mothers.
Yes. There is literally only ONE reason to play EE over the OG and that is if you have a 1440p or 4k screen. EE is worse than the OG in every single way except that it has scalable fonts. Playing the OG at 1440p or 4k makes the text extremely small and difficult to read, while you can scale it up in EE (but you'll still need mods to unfuck the terrible EE UI and many other EE issues). If you're playing at 1080p or similar size, than the OG is 100% superior.
old good new bad because... because it just is okay???
is if you have a 1440p or 4k screen
so basically anyone that isn't a poorfag should play EE, got it
siege of dragonspear was fun
I would not recommend playing EE, BG1 suffers incredibly from it because it's on the BG2 engine and the game just isn't balanced for that. It has stuff like dual-wielding, clas-kits and items that the original didn't have
but if you are going to play EE, at least install the mod that removes the EE NPCs. There's also the Nostalgia Edition mod to undo some EE changes (it's kinda buggy if you restore the BG1 sprites), and for BG1 there are mods that restore the original sounds, UI and the cutscenes. I would recommend the cutscene mod because the EE cutscenes are very ugly and cheap looking
See if you can dig up the old mod guide from goodoldgames forums. Probably need internet archive for it though.
Ascension, Banter packs, bg1npc, unfinished business are some.
worse