Dumb question, I know, but what about this game makes it better/worse than Baldur's Gate?
I've played BG but not PS:T. Just wondering.
This game took the BG engine and went the opposite way Icewind Dale did. Icewind was a more action oriented dungeon crawler, light on story. (Which is fine, I loved those games) PS:T took the Infinity engine and made it into a storytelling device. That's not to say there's not a lot of combat. There is. However, it's not uncommon to play the game for an hour or more and not enter any combat. It's not the sole focus of the game.
How is the combat in PS:T? I could go for a great story driven RPG because I found DA:O to be a huge flop just because of the combat. I felt I had to micromanage each battle to not get slaughtered. I'm normally a fan of "One man army"ing it up and this seems party based? Does it suffer from being party based and what looks to be active combat?
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It's my first playthrough and I just hit level 6 with the warrior class, should I switch over to mage/thief or just stick with warrior? Doesn't seem like you can multi-class, so you might as well just stick with one class the whole way or am I wrong?
The combat is party based, more or less identical to BG. Some of the rules are a bit twisted. Your character, even as a fighter, never wears armor. Your companions do. Instead of dual/multi-classing you are able to switch between classes more or less at will. So, you can play as a pure fighter, mage, or thief, if you want to. You shouldn't. All classes are pretty useful. And, for every level you make, you get to add a point to a stat. (or was it every few levels?) You'll want to pump your stats up as much as possible. That's where the game gets fun. When your Strength, Wisdom, Intelligence, or Charisma get insanely high, you have a lot of fun options.