Did you enjoy Baldur's Gate 1/2, Planescape Torment, or Icewind Dale back in the day?

[Slappy00]

Originally posted by: Fineghal
True test is Solo Mage. Wow is all I have to say.

Linky:

http://www.baldurdash.org/journal.html


I have so many bg2 mods installed it's not even funny. Banter packs are awesome, as are the tactics and turnabout mods. Ahhh... Still never player planescape or the IWD games... Crap - I have bg1 and 2 for mac and pc actually.
Yeah. I played BG2 originally on a Mac OS 8.6 machine - put that in your pipe and smoke it! (And this was back when I was like 12-14 or so and mac ports were HELLA expensive. 50 plus as I recall.)

More than worth it.

wow..... 2 hours of rolling

I remember my buddy let me roll only 2ce for pnp I had a blood mage with the worst stats ever..

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: Slappy00

Originally posted by: Fineghal
True test is Solo Mage. Wow is all I have to say.

Linky:

http://www.baldurdash.org/journal.html


I have so many bg2 mods installed it's not even funny. Banter packs are awesome, as are the tactics and turnabout mods. Ahhh... Still never player planescape or the IWD games... Crap - I have bg1 and 2 for mac and pc actually.
Yeah. I played BG2 originally on a Mac OS 8.6 machine - put that in your pipe and smoke it! (And this was back when I was like 12-14 or so and mac ports were HELLA expensive. 50 plus as I recall.)

More than worth it.

wow..... 2 hours of rolling

I remember my buddy let me roll only 2ce for pnp I had a blood mage with the worst stats ever..

i guess the 19's help a lot.. when i start fresh in BG2, i always drop CHA to 3 because you find the ring of human influence shortly into the game

i did a multiclass fighter/mage/thief for an all-evil party.. it was so easy once i got my character to a reasonable level (and i was burnt out of bg2 at that point)

 

[masterxfob]

i know i'm resurrecting a thread, so don't jump on my back!

i was wondering if it was possible to use the widescreen mod with a noCD crack. i've installed bg2+ tob, added the crack, then run the ws mod to no avail. the ms mod works great without the crack, but i hate having to actually use the game disc when playing.

 

[Fardringle]

Originally posted by: masterxfob
i know i'm resurrecting a thread, so don't jump on my back!

i was wondering if it was possible to use the widescreen mod with a noCD crack. i've installed bg2+ tob, added the crack, then run the ws mod to no avail. the ms mod works great without the crack, but i hate having to actually use the game disc when playing.

Are you playing a Necromancer class, by chance?

When I played PS:T with the resolution mod, I also used a no CD crack just so I wouldn't have to keep swapping discs. It has been a while, but if I remember correctly, I installed the game, installed the wide screen mod, and then replaced the torment.exe file with the noCD version.

 

[Qbah]

Originally posted by: masterxfob
i know i'm resurrecting a thread, so don't jump on my back!

i was wondering if it was possible to use the widescreen mod with a noCD crack. i've installed bg2+ tob, added the crack, then run the ws mod to no avail. the ms mod works great without the crack, but i hate having to actually use the game disc when playing.

Just create images of your game discs and mount them. Worked like a charm for me and no noCD cracks were required.

 

[Bateluer]

Have you tried mounting an ISO instead of a noCD crack?

 

[Chriscross3234]

Yup, Alcohol 52% is your friend. BG2 ToB + Widescreen mod + NoCD = bliss

 

[Kalmah]

Originally posted by: Juddog

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: Phobic9
Damn, why did I see this thread? Time to dig out the old BG2 CDs. Weren't there like 5 of them? Ugh!

While you are at it, checkout some of these mods for the Infinity Engine games (the engine that runs Baldur's Gate I / II, IceWind Dale, and PlaneScape: Torment).

Baldur's Gate (and Tales of the Sword Coast)

• EasyTuTu
  • Ports ALL of the content of BG1 and TotSC to the BG2 engine
• Baldur's Gate 1 NPC Project
  • This is a mod for TuTu (see above), it adds a great deal of intraparty dialog as well as interaction of your companions with NPCs. It also implements romance possibilities.
• Read over this thread for order of install instructions.

Baldur's Gate 2

• Baldur's Gate 2 FixPack
  • Provides fixes for most of the remaining bugs in the game that go unfixed in the official patch, also adds various tweaks to improve gameplay.
• Unfinished Business, adds back in several pieces of cut content
• Ascension, a mod written by a bioware developer that makes the ending of ToB what it would have been had they time to polish it.

IceWind Dale

• Trials of the LureMaster, a free expansion pack for Heart of Winter by Black Isle Studios

Icewind Dale 2

• IceWind Dale 2 NPC Project, gives you a party experience with NPCs similar to that of your party in Baldurs Gate 2.

Mod sites:

• Spell Hold Studios
• PocketPlane
• Gibberlings 3
• ChosenOfMystra
• Black Wyrm Lair

Awesome links. I knew about EasyTutu and the BG2 fixpack but not the others.

So far I'm having a blast replaying this classic. I feel kind of silly, runny SLI 8800 GT's (G92) + 4 GB of RAM on Vista 64, and here I am replaying this game that came out something like 10 years ago, but it's fun as hell especially with the Easytutu mods installed.

I had always meant to replay BG and BG2 all the way through, as the first time I played each I missed many of the sidequests. The Easytutu mod order of install if you want to get the widescreen mod working (or at least the way I had to install to get it working, after uninstalling everything and reinstalling):

Make sure that you choose custom install on each item that allows it, and install all movies etc., basically any option to include anything make sure you install everything.
1) install BG
2) install BG ToSC
3) Patch BG ToSC to latest patch
4) install BG2
5) Install BG2 ToB
6) patch BG2 ToB to latest patch
7) Install EasyTutu
8) In separate directory where Easytutu was installed, run the widescreen mod.

The first time I tried installing everything I somehow messed up the order somewhere and the game was unstable and I couldn't get the widescreen mod to work on the BG1 played on BG2 engine. Uninstalling everything, and then reinstalling in the above listed order, fixed this issue for me.

The nice thing about EasyTutu is that it creates it's own separate directory to where you install all the patches and mods. I would recommend installing all the mods before they start the campaign. I spent about 2 hours just going over the different mods and fixpacks and now finally am restarting the game, after having completely wiped out my old game and reinstalling everything. All in all I've spent about 4 hours wiping out, reinstalling, and testing each patch after installing.

The NPC patch is a must IMHO, and should be installed first or right after the EasyTutu fixpack.

Playing on the BG2 engine allows you to pick all the custom classes like Kensai and Monk, which is quite fun - as mentioned above right now my main is a Kensai / Wizard dual class. Using Stoneskin, Black Blade of Disaster and Tenser's Transformation makes the Kensai / Wizard a complete monster in combat, especially after using Kai - you can dual wield and slice things to ribbons.

Kensai / Thief is another awesome combo, because of the "use any item" high level ability at lvl 24. Carsomyr *5, Human Flesh *5, the Amulet of Seldarine and the Ring of Gaxx give 90% magic resistance added up using this ability.

Another cool combo is Wizard Slayer / Thief dual class. Again with the "use any item" ability, you can now wear all that magic stuff that you couldn't wear before as a Wizard Slayer. Another combo is using a Barbarian / Thief dual class - Jan Jansen's armour gives 25% physical resistance. This can be combined with the Defender of Easthaven *2 to give 45% resistance to physical attacks. A Barbarian gets physical resistance from level 11 which adds to this.

All in all, so many options are open to play around with, plus the ability to import the characters into BG2 makes the replayability of this game go through the roof.

:thumbsup: Great info guys.

 

[Kalmah]

Damnit, my bg1 cds are scratched to hell. Wont Install.

 

[masterxfob]

duh, i should've thought about mounting an image... it's just been quite a while since i've actually played any games, let alone pc games. thanks for the reminders fellas.

 

[Kalmah]

Got BG1 and BG2 working easytutu and hi-res mod. Looks nice. The text is so damn small though I have to squint to read it. Any solutions?

 

[Eeezee]

Actually, I just finished playing BG1 for the first time with easytutu. What a fun game!

And then I started BG2 for the first time... WOW, these games are amazing. And then I installed the widescreen mod, and it looks absolutely awesome.

 

[Via]

Somebody was working on a BG conversion to the NWN2 engine a few years ago. Anybody heard anything about that recently?

 

[Kalmah]

Originally posted by: Via
Somebody was working on a BG conversion to the NWN2 engine a few years ago. Anybody heard anything about that recently?

There may be one for nwn1. The nwn2 toolset was such a hack-job I can't imagine somebody actually finishing a project of this size in it.

 

[Via]

I remembered where I saw it and went back and checked.

This is what I was thinking of:

http://www.tomshardware.com/fo...grandchild-baldur-gate

 

[OCNewbie]

I find my character and party members look extremely small at 1440x900 on a 19" widescreen. Is this because the monitor is only 19" or the res makes them that small? I liked the size they were at 800x600 on a 19" CRT. Things weren't as pretty, but the characters weren't ultra tiny either.

 

[Kalmah]

Originally posted by: OCNewbie
I find my character and party members look extremely small at 1440x900 on a 19" widescreen. Is this because the monitor is only 19" or the res makes them that small? I liked the size they were at 800x600 on a 19" CRT. Things weren't as pretty, but the characters weren't ultra tiny either.

I agree. I could barely read the text as well. If you run the widescreen mod again and put in different coordinates it doesn't hurt anything. Just choose the 'reinstall' option after it starts.

After playing around with it I don't think I like going over 1024x768. Definately better than the native 800x600. You don't need the widescreen hack for this res either. In the config it allows you to set 'unsuported' resolutions.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: Via
Somebody was working on a BG conversion to the NWN2 engine a few years ago. Anybody heard anything about that recently?

There was a project for both this in both NWN1 and NWN2. Unfortunately, its such a huge undertaking that the community members developing it drift and lose interest, so the project never gets completed. The NWN1 project is pretty much dead, so far as I know. The NWN2 project I think it still active. The lead on it updates his post on the NWN2 mod forum occasionally, but I'm not sure how much real work is being done. His screen shots look good though.

Originally posted by: Kalmah
Got BG1 and BG2 working easytutu and hi-res mod. Looks nice. The text is so damn small though I have to squint to read it. Any solutions?

I would definitely be interested in a mod to increase the size of the text. At 1920x1200, its almost painful to read anything in the game.

 

[datalink7]

I was about to reinstall BG2 and replay it without any additions. Finding this thread is awesome. Will make the experience that much better. Thanks a lot.

 

[kaiser02]

can someone post some screens somewhere else like imageshack or something?

 

[stumben32]

There is a Font Mod available for BG2 which is supposed to increase the font size and add floating fonts.

I am using the widescreen mod however - for some reason this mod will not work for me I dont see any difference. No idea why. Worth a shot though.

Long live Baldurs Gate!

The mod:
http://www.shsforums.net/index.php?showtopic=38626

 

[larry89]

Updated BG2 Mod Automated Install, self unzipping and installing mods, make sure to read the bigworldPDF

http://www.shsforums.net/index.php?showtopic=41997

 

[damage424]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
By the way, if anyone is interested...
The entire Baldurs Gate series (including expansion packs), the entire IceWind Dale series (including expansion packs), NWN1 (including all expansion packs), Temple of Elemental Evil, DragonShard, and DemonStone can be purchased in a bundle box for $50, new:

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=40&threadid=2041107

Hey guys. I have NEVER tried any of those games listed. And I hear they are great, but I'm not sure to buy them or not.

 

[masterxfob]

Originally posted by: damage424

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
By the way, if anyone is interested...
The entire Baldurs Gate series (including expansion packs), the entire IceWind Dale series (including expansion packs), NWN1 (including all expansion packs), Temple of Elemental Evil, DragonShard, and DemonStone can be purchased in a bundle box for $50, new:

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=40&threadid=2041107

Hey guys. I have NEVER tried any of those games listed. And I hear they are great, but I'm not sure to buy them or not.

you'd be a fool not to play the BG series. as for the rest, not so much.

 

[QuantumPion]

Does anyone know how to get PS:T to work properly in Windows 7/ Visa? I installed it and applied the various mods and patches just fine. But while playing, I get very bad lag whenever there is a magical effect on the screen, like a spell being cast or just hovering the mouse over a door to highlight it.

Also, I was trying to use the widescreen mod to use a resolution of 768x480 (basically 16:10 stretch of the original 640x480) so that I could play the game as it was originally made. But when I start the game with that resolution, the intro movies don't play and the whole screen is tiny and the colors are all corrupted with green bars.