I remember having to put in a new cdrom each time an new chapter started. I accidentally broke the chapter 4 one and I called Interplay and they sent me a new one free of charge. How things have changed!
There was this little hack where you just copied the cd contents to the hard drive and then edit a cfg file so the game wouldn't ask you for a cd swap ;). I learned that one early, tank god! :D
Warm memories of playing a lvl 1 mage with exactly one spellslot, taking 5 steps outside Candlekeep and getting immediately killed by the wolf because my magic missile didn't do enough damage. 10/10 game
Thank you for making a super cut of Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2. Was playing 3 and met Jaheira with Karlach fangirling. Some mentions of Saravok and Ketheric Thorm so I knew I missed something.
I love the videos, especially this one. It brings back so many memories of my childhood playing and beating baldurs gate when I was like 10 years old. I remember beating the final battle with Sarevok as a kid by summoning a million monsters before the battle began 😂 safe to say that baldurs gate shaped my interest in video games and books moving forward and I still love this kind of stuff today (33 years old)
Nashkel being the town best known for it's Country/Fantasy style bards, who sing about horse drawn wagons, crossbow slingers, and broken hearts. You can find them at the Ye Olde Orcery
I remember reading somewhere that in the beginning of the game because of the iron shortage and the iron that gets excavated being tainted, all of the weapons you buy in Nashkel have a like 20% chance of breaking on every strike to represent the tainted iron in the area. cant remember if other weapons in other cities reflect this but i read that many low level items in the beginning have a debuff on them that they break easy.
This is great! Thank you for the extensive recap. Never played BG1 and 2 as a kid, and now it's a little too late for me to enjoy them and disregard its age. I'll watch your BG2 recap as well. This will get me ready for BG3 in case it references the original stories.
@@blushingralseiuwu2222 I believe it, don't get me wrong, but I can say the same about Knights of the Old Republic, which I did play as a kid. Nowadays I have a difficult time getting through it. The nostalgia sometimes isn't enough to compensate for the old age of the game. I'd play BG1 and 2 for the story, but the gameplay and the ancient UI and sound and visuals would bring the experience down, and I may never actually finish it.
@@ianmoriarty2199 Its actually the visual I'm talking about, background looks so good and aged better than 3d game like KOTOR. BG 1 looks bad since its the first time they are making that kind of game, but BG 2 is just a beautiful game. The UI is a mess, but its not a simple modern UI install cannot solve.
Yeah I tried playing BG1 few days ago with my friend as a preperation for new Larian game, but the clunkiness really takes away from the experience and after 2-3 hours we decided to give up. I honestly envy people who are able to play games as old as this for the first time without getting a headache like me
I have played BG1 and 2a long, long time ago and have very little memory of them aside from rough outlines and vague images. This series you've made is a godsend as I would not have had the time to otherwise get back into those games just to refresh my memory. Thank you so much for making these, it's quite clear you put in an immense amount of time and effort to put these together. With BG3 release in mere 3 days, I don't think there's any place better to spend my free time than here, listening to you. Really thank you, you - and these videos - are very much appreciated!
Used to be a cod and fortnite gamer. You opened my eyes to crpgs, I've knocked out kingmaker, wotr, dos2, wasteland 3 and poe2, on baldurs gate 3 now. You are always a source of great quality content!
Welcome to using your brain to play video games instead of just reflexes! When BG3 was getting hyped last summer, I was predicting it was going to be the From Soft game for people with brains 😂
@allrequiredfields i can definitely second that recommendation. DA:O is one of my favorite games of all time. I was 8 when it came out, so I didn't get a chance to play until three years ago, but I played through everything. BG3 comes close to usurping it though
I had played all the way up until I stepped foot in Baldurs Gate for the first time. I enjoyed the game, I just never got the chance to continue it again. I was enraptured by the story, and the mystery of my heritage. Baldurs Gate 3 came out, and I played it. I finally beat the game, and I had a HELL of a time doing it. However I did not go down the Dark Urge path. There were moments and references to the previous games, obviously, especially when speaking with specific characters. However there was a certain part in Act 3, and if you have beaten BG3, you know the moment I'm talking about, when my entire world shattered and I had an enormous realization about who the player character in BG1 was. After that moment, I told myself immediately, that I had to understand the story of the previous two games, and thus, here I am. I am tempted to finish my playthrough of BG1, as well as go all the way through BG2, but I just do not have the time. I am also just too interested to play Dark Urge in BG3, seeing as it now seems like it might be the 'true' story of the game. Sure, your own origin character is fun, but based on what I went through in BG1, as well as finally getting the full story of the game, it just makes sense that Dark Urge is the 'true' story.
What a wonderful game back in the day. BG 1, The swordcoast add on, and 2. Then they had a cheat app which you could use and edit the save game. I am 51 now so it was OMG....like 20 years ago.
I played this back in the day and got to the final fight where I got stuck in a cinematic loop where the game would play the cinematic over and over and over... I never got to finish the last fight 😓
I feel this pain, lol. My only full playthrough was mostly as a solo mage. I got all the way to Sarevok, who just so happens to be immune to magic damage!!! 😠 Sooo yeah... I never finished that fight either. 🤣
This is crazy. I was 6 when this game came out and I used to play it all the time - just clicking and fighting and running around. Never getting particularly far. I always thought it was so interesting. To finally understand how complicated the story is and how this game was clearly not intended for small children is so interesting. Also, makes me appreciate my teenage brother who beat this game as a minor genius lol
Take these words as a huge token of gratitude for summarizing the plot and all the job, covering not only the main game, but also the expansions. It was a pleasure to go through it, being accompanied by your calm and solid voice. Going forward to the BG II recap of yours!
Too bad. Moment you understand the game it really opens up on what you can do. Probably didn't play it at the right time and now it just doesn't have the appeal. Bur if you had played it when it first came out you definitely would've loved it.
The jump in presentation and mic quality from ye olde Mortismal to more current Mortismal is really endearing. Got on during the Pathfinder WotR times and loved your content ever since. This is perfect to get background for BG3. The Devs said something among the lines of it not being a direct sequel but that bg1&2 very much put brought the events of bg3 rolling in the years since.
absolutely great job sir, I will play bg2 after beating bg1 15 years ago and don't have time to replay with all the other games going on at the moment. Very useful!
BG3 was just announced for PS5, watching this too catch up on story. Thanks for taking the time too put this together. Hope to find a BG2 story breakdown as thorough as this.
The game is unforgettable. the dialogues in Candlekeep's library, the atmosphere, the music and the bizarre German voice acting in Low German, Rhenish and Bavarian. But I love it :)
Thank you for your great work! May I suggest to put names of the characters you talk about somewhere in the corner of the screen along with short descriptions of who they are and cross them out at the moment they die in your narrative. That would help a lot to follow some really convoluted game plots.
Just discovered your videos and you’re getting me through heartbreak and grief, so, thanks so much! I hope this comment can help spread some hope and positivity!
Thank you for this this is helpful for me as I want to play baldurs gate 3 but tried to play the OG game and I just struggled to play with it, the UI not being well suited for me along with struggling to recognize the many spell symbols for when in combat made it awkward to use to having an abridged version of the story is super helpful for understanding the background plus some of the future characters I may encounter in the game without prior context :)
It's a shame so many younger gamers struggle with the older UI and graphics. There are so many older games that had more depth, character and innovation than any AAA title today. BG1 and 2, Fallout 1 and 2, Arcanum, just to name a few. All are unbelievably good games, and in many ways surpass the modern dumbed down RPGs (BG3 being a rare exception). But they all have really outdated UI and graphics, which is a big turn off for anybody who didn't grow up with these games.
I didn't mind the graphics or UI of BG1 but the gameplay was a huge turn off. In identical encounters you might get through relatively unscathed, take damage or get party wiped just based on the RNG. The game had an in depth story with interesting variables and characters choices locked behind a combat system about as fun as grinding mobs in WoW except you have to reload a previous save if you rolled like crap in an encounter. Just a pure drudgery time sync where it never felt like any tactics came into play.
I still have the cdroms. I never went much far in the game. I always got killed by the first fight. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing lol Thanks for bringing back memories! Awesome video 😊
Thank you so much for doing this story summary. I played the first baldur's gate a million years ago and with bg3 out, i figured it was about time i dug into bg2, but it had been so long since i played bg1, I can't remember anything. This was super thorough and helpful
Less than a week before a release of BG3 and i find this 😍 what a gem of a video enjoying it af and gonna enjoy the supercut of bg2 after this one thank you so much❤️
It's weird how much games have changed. I remember BG1&2 being an amazing, shiny, well-built-up experience. Looking back at it now, the graphics are aged as expected, but what I did not expect is that the story, the dramaturgy, and the storytelling tools would feel dated as well. We like to complain about "games nowadays", often rightfully so, but at the same time, they improved a lot in many aspects. I still love the memory of BG1&2, and most probably, they really were mindblowing at the time, but it's good to realize (after seeing a lot of new junk and the entire microtransaction-hellscape) how far some of the current games came.
I thought the story of bg1 was ok, not mind-blowing but serviceable. The way the overarching narrative is incorporated into different chapters is really good I reckon, step by step unraveling your place in the whole conflict kept me engaged the whole time. And I’ve just finished it the other day lul. I wouldn’t say the story-telling feels dated at all.
Excited to watch this; I have the EE editions of BG1 & 2 on Steam but it's the UI/UX that gets me...just the way information is convyed feels awkward to me (plus I dislike AD&D) so this way I can find out some jucy lore and story!
I am pretty sure the dream abilities are based on the protagonists alignment. I am playing the enhanced edition playing a Blackguard but I donate alot of gold to the temples to have a okay rep (jumping from 9 to 11 normally) and I only get the offensive powers from them. Good vid as always good sir
Perhaps you're only getting the dreams when you're on the lower end of your rep. I've definitely found it to be reputaion based as opposed to alignment.
I played a chaotic neutral character who only got the "good" powers. My reputation was 14 without Dorn and Victonia. Since I was technically good, those are the powers I got
25:30 you talk about eliminster and I was listening to this as I was doing something else. You made a comment that it’s weird he never gives his name but somehow you know it. He’s like the most famous dnd wizard and equivalent to Merlin
Thank you for this amazing trip to memory lane ! I can only wish we can have an ambitious remastered version of this masterpiece in the future. Something like modern Pillars of eternity art background combined with physic-based models and combats. Models would dodge, react and be thrown away like ragdolls. What a joy it would be, the best of both world : isometric and 3D rpg.
Ah baldur's gate EE. I played the game a lot, but somehow never could finish BG2EE. Every time i was halfway of the game, in BG2EE, i ended up wanting to restart all over and play a new BGEE playthrough for some reason.
Only thing wrong with BG1 is that in the remake they didnt include an option to choose the original cut scenes, which in some places are better than the remade versions.
I appreciate BDs work at bringing new attention to these works of art. That said, I think they do a piss-poor job at it and in many cases (not just this game) their version is sorely lacking when compared to the original.
I really appreciate this. I bought both 1 and 2, Enhanced, quite recently to try and push through both before BG3 fully releases. I was... less-than whelmed, shall we say. I expected age, and strange design issues, even difficulty, but what I found has so far been a light story strung together over barely-connected areas and blocked off time and time again by a new and overpowered enemy challenging you to an unavoidable fight right before you can rest at a tavern, dangling actual conversations, character development, choices, and alternate outcomes ever-so-temptingly right in front of you before refusing you any of those actual options. I don't hate old games, or hard games, but this doesn't seem... that difficult. The design is just frustrating, teasing me with the POSSIBILITY that I might be able to buy off whatever new enemy appears with five player levels on me, somehow able to wield martial level armor and weapons with deadly one-shot spells at the same time. My last two such encounters have both mentioned the bounty reward for me to be killed, and both times I've had more than five times the amount of money on my person and can even offer to pay the bounty hunters... with zero chance of it being accepted. And despite starting with a full party designed around my friend's suggestions for inclusion a la faux multiplayer--something more lore friendly players won't be doing--each new encounter is a boring wait while my entire crew rushes the enemy, loosing arrows and swinging weapons that miss 95% of the time, waiting to see which one of them or myself are instantly killed by the first time an enemy lands an attack or spell on us. Even the current area I'm in, and the last area which was full of kobolds, was kind of like this. As of yet, there's not really any strategy, and if I had picked anything other than Mage or hadn't at least included one in my party to get guaranteed Magic Missile damage, I'm not sure I would have ever survived the first ambush by Tarnesh, since the only way I could make it through that fight was getting a lucky interrupt on the enemy as he was himself preparing his buff spells that would render him almost unkillable to our low level party. I've been willing to give it more of a chance, and play it a bit more, get through these rough early times (just as with actual AD&D 2e) and get to a point where the story actually starts to matter, and reconsider sticking all the way through. I would like to get the story first-hand; these are games I always wanted to play as a kid, but never got the chance to. But man, has it been disappointing. I understand these games are considered aged classics, and I was expecting the age to get in the way, believe me--but I wasn't expecting a nearly storyless right-click slog through Monster Manual handouts with no story developments anywhere along the way. This video will at least make sure I'm caught up before playing 3, and the gods only know if I'll ever actually beat these two, so thanks for uploading it and while you're at it, making it a longer and more in-depth look such as this so I don't miss any of the smaller details.
I hate how the narration isn't synced to the on screen text. As someone who isn't native to an english speaking country, it confuses me. Anyway, great video!
Cheers for doing this...I've been trying really hard to play baldurs gate one because I heard that and bg2 are some of the greatest RPGs ever but it's a struggle trying to play the first...I have no idea what I'm doing..and the graphics are pretty painful 😂
Bg 1 and 2 are really hard games to get into if you've never played them back in the day. I had no problem replaying ice wind Dale 2, id1 and both bgs felt like a real slog. It took forever to lvl up and lvl ups themselves didn't offer you much variety especially at first.
@@alonzo4164 1993 here, first rpg was Ocarina. I enjoy RPGs , and have played Magic the gathering so I'm familiar with the world in a sense. I really like the voice acting and the feeling of looking down on an adventure unfolding Infront of me. But i could not get into it as much as I would of liked. I also don't like point and click games. But do love older RPGs like Chrono trigger, Morrowind ect
@@alonzo4164 im a millennial who absolutely loves these games. Theres a particular kind of depth, challenge, writing tone that all are absent in modern games that aren't pathfinder
Damn, Siege of Dragonspear's story feels so disappointing in comparison to the other games. Thank you for being a beacon of shining light through the forgotten, dim lit cavern that is this game.
Loving these recaps for BG1&2, especially since I never played them and recently finished my Dark Urge campaign in BG3. Would love a video on the companion stories from the first two games--especially those that are in BG3 (I only know of Jaheira, Minsc, Viconia). Cheers!
BG1 companions barely had stories, basically just their introductions and some dialogue here and there. BG2 is more fleshed out but only a handful actually get full stories.
Even though ive never played any of the baulder gate games and don't realy have an intereste, i do enjoy listening to the stories, those do intereste me so thanks fir doing this, I've looked it up but none of the other videos are as thorough as yours so good job man.
I didn't understand any of the story because I'd kill all 'bad' guys immediately. I didn't use subtlety. I didn't even add the two P.Cs who were of evil alignment, preferring to remove their HP instead. I'd just go from area to area ending the reign of all the bad guys with any guidance coming from the cut scenes.
This brought back so much fond memories. Id like to take the time to redo BG1-2 but honestly, the clunky movement turns me off too much now. Even with the enhanced editions, time has taken its toll in my eyes, especially when you can imagine how it could look now whenever I play Pathfinder.
I remember having to put in a new cdrom each time an new chapter started. I accidentally broke the chapter 4 one and I called Interplay and they sent me a new one free of charge. How things have changed!
For games like baldurs gate, downloads are definitely an improvement
@@ahouyearno now you have it on your phone.
a cd rom is really really really cheap to make so its understandable
There was this little hack where you just copied the cd contents to the hard drive and then edit a cfg file so the game wouldn't ask you for a cd swap ;). I learned that one early, tank god! :D
@@CountingStars333 there on PS4 and Xbox
Warm memories of playing a lvl 1 mage with exactly one spellslot, taking 5 steps outside Candlekeep and getting immediately killed by the wolf because my magic missile didn't do enough damage. 10/10 game
You got to enjoy the quarterstaff animation missing a couple of times as well :)
Sleep is superior earlier on
The AD&D rules it was based upon was rough. Wouldn’t go over well today (except maybe among players of the Souls video games…)
@@jokecukieWell, at least missing 80% of the time hasn't changed 🤣
Only having 4 hp😂
This game is a reason why the first thing when a character or a mysterious word is introduced in a story, I always read it backwards. No luck so far.
Thank you for making a super cut of Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2. Was playing 3 and met Jaheira with Karlach fangirling. Some mentions of Saravok and Ketheric Thorm so I knew I missed something.
I know this is old, but you're actually supposed to meet Elminster again in Beregost before the friendly arm inn. That's where he tells you his name.
I love the videos, especially this one. It brings back so many memories of my childhood playing and beating baldurs gate when I was like 10 years old. I remember beating the final battle with Sarevok as a kid by summoning a million monsters before the battle began 😂 safe to say that baldurs gate shaped my interest in video games and books moving forward and I still love this kind of stuff today (33 years old)
Nashkel being the town best known for it's Country/Fantasy style bards, who sing about horse drawn wagons, crossbow slingers, and broken hearts. You can find them at the Ye Olde Orcery
I remember reading somewhere that in the beginning of the game because of the iron shortage and the iron that gets excavated being tainted, all of the weapons you buy in Nashkel have a like 20% chance of breaking on every strike to represent the tainted iron in the area. cant remember if other weapons in other cities reflect this but i read that many low level items in the beginning have a debuff on them that they break easy.
yeah every unenchanted iron weapon has a chance of breaking until you finish the mines quests
@@amo5743 quarterstaff gang rise up
@@amo5743 Does the weapons breaking issue stop after beating the Nashkel mines? I think I had at least +1 weapons by then so never noticed.
@@everinghall8622club gang rise up
@@NerdHerdForLifethat’s literally what he said lol
This is great! Thank you for the extensive recap. Never played BG1 and 2 as a kid, and now it's a little too late for me to enjoy them and disregard its age. I'll watch your BG2 recap as well. This will get me ready for BG3 in case it references the original stories.
Baldur's Gate 2 is a really good game though, one of the best CRPG out there.
@@blushingralseiuwu2222 I believe it, don't get me wrong, but I can say the same about Knights of the Old Republic, which I did play as a kid. Nowadays I have a difficult time getting through it.
The nostalgia sometimes isn't enough to compensate for the old age of the game.
I'd play BG1 and 2 for the story, but the gameplay and the ancient UI and sound and visuals would bring the experience down, and I may never actually finish it.
@@ianmoriarty2199 Its actually the visual I'm talking about, background looks so good and aged better than 3d game like KOTOR. BG 1 looks bad since its the first time they are making that kind of game, but BG 2 is just a beautiful game.
The UI is a mess, but its not a simple modern UI install cannot solve.
@@blushingralseiuwu2222I can replay kotor to this day. BG1 and BG2 not so much. Amazing games but I think kotor aged better in my opinion.
Yeah I tried playing BG1 few days ago with my friend as a preperation for new Larian game, but the clunkiness really takes away from the experience and after 2-3 hours we decided to give up. I honestly envy people who are able to play games as old as this for the first time without getting a headache like me
I've watched all of the five parts you published, and now here is my 'like' in the supercut. Great video!
I'm looking forward to the BG2 story!
I have played BG1 and 2a long, long time ago and have very little memory of them aside from rough outlines and vague images. This series you've made is a godsend as I would not have had the time to otherwise get back into those games just to refresh my memory. Thank you so much for making these, it's quite clear you put in an immense amount of time and effort to put these together.
With BG3 release in mere 3 days, I don't think there's any place better to spend my free time than here, listening to you. Really thank you, you - and these videos - are very much appreciated!
Used to be a cod and fortnite gamer. You opened my eyes to crpgs, I've knocked out kingmaker, wotr, dos2, wasteland 3 and poe2, on baldurs gate 3 now. You are always a source of great quality content!
Welcome to using your brain to play video games instead of just reflexes! When BG3 was getting hyped last summer, I was predicting it was going to be the From Soft game for people with brains 😂
...also, check out Dragon Age: Origins - it's a lot like BG3, but a bit less involved with the mechanics.
@allrequiredfields i can definitely second that recommendation. DA:O is one of my favorite games of all time. I was 8 when it came out, so I didn't get a chance to play until three years ago, but I played through everything. BG3 comes close to usurping it though
A little bit late but I agree, Dragon Age Origins is a must. Playing Baldurs Gate 3 now brings back the memories.
@@allrequiredfieldswhy can't you enjoy both types of games?
You’re the only person I’ve here heard pronounce “Kobold” like that: “kuh-BULDZ” 😂😂😂😂
I had played all the way up until I stepped foot in Baldurs Gate for the first time. I enjoyed the game, I just never got the chance to continue it again. I was enraptured by the story, and the mystery of my heritage. Baldurs Gate 3 came out, and I played it. I finally beat the game, and I had a HELL of a time doing it. However I did not go down the Dark Urge path. There were moments and references to the previous games, obviously, especially when speaking with specific characters. However there was a certain part in Act 3, and if you have beaten BG3, you know the moment I'm talking about, when my entire world shattered and I had an enormous realization about who the player character in BG1 was. After that moment, I told myself immediately, that I had to understand the story of the previous two games, and thus, here I am. I am tempted to finish my playthrough of BG1, as well as go all the way through BG2, but I just do not have the time. I am also just too interested to play Dark Urge in BG3, seeing as it now seems like it might be the 'true' story of the game. Sure, your own origin character is fun, but based on what I went through in BG1, as well as finally getting the full story of the game, it just makes sense that Dark Urge is the 'true' story.
What a wonderful game back in the day. BG 1, The swordcoast add on, and 2. Then they had a cheat app which you could use and edit the save game. I am 51 now so it was OMG....like 20 years ago.
I played this back in the day and got to the final fight where I got stuck in a cinematic loop where the game would play the cinematic over and over and over... I never got to finish the last fight 😓
I feel this pain, lol. My only full playthrough was mostly as a solo mage. I got all the way to Sarevok, who just so happens to be immune to magic damage!!! 😠 Sooo yeah... I never finished that fight either. 🤣
@@GreenOne01 Wow, that sounds painful. 😁
This is crazy. I was 6 when this game came out and I used to play it all the time - just clicking and fighting and running around. Never getting particularly far. I always thought it was so interesting. To finally understand how complicated the story is and how this game was clearly not intended for small children is so interesting. Also, makes me appreciate my teenage brother who beat this game as a minor genius lol
Awesome - just finished main story part. It's exactly the amount of depth I wanted from a recap (unlike those 10 minute ones elsewhere!). Cheers.
Take these words as a huge token of gratitude for summarizing the plot and all the job, covering not only the main game, but also the expansions. It was a pleasure to go through it, being accompanied by your calm and solid voice.
Going forward to the BG II recap of yours!
Thank you for doing this. I’ve tried playing this so many times and could never get into but. I’ve always wanted to know the story though.
Hint: Play a Gnome Illusionist. Pretty easy then
Too bad. Moment you understand the game it really opens up on what you can do. Probably didn't play it at the right time and now it just doesn't have the appeal. Bur if you had played it when it first came out you definitely would've loved it.
The first few hours is brutal but once I got used to it it wasn’t bad.
@@chris51ification yeah im having a blast playing scs, hard-core, insane difficulty. I've never been so afraid of black talon elite bandits.
Same for me. I can’t get past the graphics and I know it’s lame but I want to know the story before BG3
Thanks for uploading this and the BG2 one as well. I really wanted to hear the stories of the first 2 games before BG3 releases.
Its amazing how I remember the narration. Its been so many years. Great videos mate. Thanks for this one, it was a trip down memory lane. Cheers
The jump in presentation and mic quality from ye olde Mortismal to more current Mortismal is really endearing. Got on during the Pathfinder WotR times and loved your content ever since. This is perfect to get background for BG3.
The Devs said something among the lines of it not being a direct sequel but that bg1&2 very much put brought the events of bg3 rolling in the years since.
absolutely great job sir, I will play bg2 after beating bg1 15 years ago and don't have time to replay with all the other games going on at the moment. Very useful!
BG3 was just announced for PS5, watching this too catch up on story.
Thanks for taking the time too put this together. Hope to find a BG2 story breakdown as thorough as this.
I did both yeah
The game is unforgettable. the dialogues in Candlekeep's library, the atmosphere, the music and the bizarre German voice acting in Low German, Rhenish and Bavarian. But I love it :)
Well done. Played it 5 years ago, and a decade before that. Great refresher
i played this when i was like 12 and i'm surprised at how well i remember it. thank you for this video
My at 16. With a desktop i bought from my summerjob!
Is that the soothing gruff but gentle voice of kevin Michael Richardson I hear?😲 That guy was one of the voices of my childhood!
Thank you for your great work! May I suggest to put names of the characters you talk about somewhere in the corner of the screen along with short descriptions of who they are and cross them out at the moment they die in your narrative. That would help a lot to follow some really convoluted game plots.
Just discovered your videos and you’re getting me through heartbreak and grief, so, thanks so much! I hope this comment can help spread some hope and positivity!
Ah Mortismal Gaming. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. Appreciate the story knowledge my dude ✌️
Thank you for this this is helpful for me as I want to play baldurs gate 3 but tried to play the OG game and I just struggled to play with it, the UI not being well suited for me along with struggling to recognize the many spell symbols for when in combat made it awkward to use to having an abridged version of the story is super helpful for understanding the background plus some of the future characters I may encounter in the game without prior context :)
It's a shame so many younger gamers struggle with the older UI and graphics. There are so many older games that had more depth, character and innovation than any AAA title today. BG1 and 2, Fallout 1 and 2, Arcanum, just to name a few. All are unbelievably good games, and in many ways surpass the modern dumbed down RPGs (BG3 being a rare exception). But they all have really outdated UI and graphics, which is a big turn off for anybody who didn't grow up with these games.
I didn't mind the graphics or UI of BG1 but the gameplay was a huge turn off. In identical encounters you might get through relatively unscathed, take damage or get party wiped just based on the RNG. The game had an in depth story with interesting variables and characters choices locked behind a combat system about as fun as grinding mobs in WoW except you have to reload a previous save if you rolled like crap in an encounter. Just a pure drudgery time sync where it never felt like any tactics came into play.
I still have the cdroms. I never went much far in the game. I always got killed by the first fight. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing lol Thanks for bringing back memories! Awesome video 😊
Your videos have become like comfort food to me, I can put on one and just be absorbed into it.
Thank you
Elminster is one of the greatest wizards created in the Forgotten Realms. He features in many of the novels in this world.
And whopping 26000 XP no less, LOL
He was in baldur’s gate 3 too
Heya, its me, Imoen!
The multiplayer on GameSpy Arcade was good times for this game. Also I remember it as your first dream giving you lay on hands for some reason.
Thank you so much for doing this story summary. I played the first baldur's gate a million years ago and with bg3 out, i figured it was about time i dug into bg2, but it had been so long since i played bg1, I can't remember anything. This was super thorough and helpful
Thank you for taking the time to put that together
Less than a week before a release of BG3 and i find this 😍 what a gem of a video enjoying it af and gonna enjoy the supercut of bg2 after this one thank you so much❤️
Ah man you missed the most sijister bit where he goes "im sorry you feel that way old man!"
Wow, what an intriguing setup. Now I want to play it!
It's weird how much games have changed. I remember BG1&2 being an amazing, shiny, well-built-up experience. Looking back at it now, the graphics are aged as expected, but what I did not expect is that the story, the dramaturgy, and the storytelling tools would feel dated as well. We like to complain about "games nowadays", often rightfully so, but at the same time, they improved a lot in many aspects. I still love the memory of BG1&2, and most probably, they really were mindblowing at the time, but it's good to realize (after seeing a lot of new junk and the entire microtransaction-hellscape) how far some of the current games came.
I thought the story of bg1 was ok, not mind-blowing but serviceable. The way the overarching narrative is incorporated into different chapters is really good I reckon, step by step unraveling your place in the whole conflict kept me engaged the whole time. And I’ve just finished it the other day lul. I wouldn’t say the story-telling feels dated at all.
Great! now I can recap what I was doing in my save before a I stopped.
Excited to watch this; I have the EE editions of BG1 & 2 on Steam but it's the UI/UX that gets me...just the way information is convyed feels awkward to me (plus I dislike AD&D) so this way I can find out some jucy lore and story!
I am pretty sure the dream abilities are based on the protagonists alignment. I am playing the enhanced edition playing a Blackguard but I donate alot of gold to the temples to have a okay rep (jumping from 9 to 11 normally) and I only get the offensive powers from them.
Good vid as always good sir
Perhaps you're only getting the dreams when you're on the lower end of your rep. I've definitely found it to be reputaion based as opposed to alignment.
I played a chaotic neutral character who only got the "good" powers. My reputation was 14 without Dorn and Victonia. Since I was technically good, those are the powers I got
The fact that people were playing this all the way back in 1998 is just insane to me.
thank the Algorithm!! Been loving your content since probably right after this came out but excited to watch these in preparation for BG3!!!
Been watching all your vids. Amazing content!
Thank you for this Supercut! Great to remmember the main plot! :)
This supercut has finally convinced me to play this game since I got it all for free
Great having these two videos before BG3
thanks for this
hard to go back and play some of thses old games now do to pacing
I would love a return to Candlekeep and the greater sword coast area in a future bg game.
Whoa that takes me way back. And I only just acted watching.
Just found your channel! Liked and subbed, after a few related videos came up searching for Baldur's content.
25:30 you talk about eliminster and I was listening to this as I was doing something else. You made a comment that it’s weird he never gives his name but somehow you know it. He’s like the most famous dnd wizard and equivalent to Merlin
Just found this chanel, loving it great job 👍
Thanks...I like the lore even if I'm not going to play the game
Damn it’s crazy to see the similarities between the the dlc and Baldurs Gate 3
Planescape torment was such a masterpiece...
Thank you for this amazing trip to memory lane !
I can only wish we can have an ambitious remastered version of this masterpiece in the future. Something like modern Pillars of eternity art background combined with physic-based models and combats. Models would dodge, react and be thrown away like ragdolls. What a joy it would be, the best of both world : isometric and 3D rpg.
when you got to the part of Voks name spelled backwards, why did i immediately think of how imoen's name is literally neomi spelled backwards
Life is so hollow.
Hated Xan by the end of my first playthrough a year or two ago
@@worldfamousgi86 Our quest is vain!
He isn't a great NPC companion in a lot of ways, I just enjoy his dialog.
Ah baldur's gate EE. I played the game a lot, but somehow never could finish BG2EE.
Every time i was halfway of the game, in BG2EE, i ended up wanting to restart all over and play a new BGEE playthrough for some reason.
When God of Murder gets murdered, you know the world is in trouble.
ahhhh, this is exactly what i was looking for 🙏🏽
timekeep:
21:39
55:18
1:31:24
Only thing wrong with BG1 is that in the remake they didnt include an option to choose the original cut scenes, which in some places are better than the remade versions.
There is a mod that restores the original cut scenes. And yes, they were generally much better!
I appreciate BDs work at bringing new attention to these works of art. That said, I think they do a piss-poor job at it and in many cases (not just this game) their version is sorely lacking when compared to the original.
I really appreciate this. I bought both 1 and 2, Enhanced, quite recently to try and push through both before BG3 fully releases. I was... less-than whelmed, shall we say. I expected age, and strange design issues, even difficulty, but what I found has so far been a light story strung together over barely-connected areas and blocked off time and time again by a new and overpowered enemy challenging you to an unavoidable fight right before you can rest at a tavern, dangling actual conversations, character development, choices, and alternate outcomes ever-so-temptingly right in front of you before refusing you any of those actual options.
I don't hate old games, or hard games, but this doesn't seem... that difficult. The design is just frustrating, teasing me with the POSSIBILITY that I might be able to buy off whatever new enemy appears with five player levels on me, somehow able to wield martial level armor and weapons with deadly one-shot spells at the same time. My last two such encounters have both mentioned the bounty reward for me to be killed, and both times I've had more than five times the amount of money on my person and can even offer to pay the bounty hunters... with zero chance of it being accepted.
And despite starting with a full party designed around my friend's suggestions for inclusion a la faux multiplayer--something more lore friendly players won't be doing--each new encounter is a boring wait while my entire crew rushes the enemy, loosing arrows and swinging weapons that miss 95% of the time, waiting to see which one of them or myself are instantly killed by the first time an enemy lands an attack or spell on us. Even the current area I'm in, and the last area which was full of kobolds, was kind of like this. As of yet, there's not really any strategy, and if I had picked anything other than Mage or hadn't at least included one in my party to get guaranteed Magic Missile damage, I'm not sure I would have ever survived the first ambush by Tarnesh, since the only way I could make it through that fight was getting a lucky interrupt on the enemy as he was himself preparing his buff spells that would render him almost unkillable to our low level party.
I've been willing to give it more of a chance, and play it a bit more, get through these rough early times (just as with actual AD&D 2e) and get to a point where the story actually starts to matter, and reconsider sticking all the way through. I would like to get the story first-hand; these are games I always wanted to play as a kid, but never got the chance to. But man, has it been disappointing. I understand these games are considered aged classics, and I was expecting the age to get in the way, believe me--but I wasn't expecting a nearly storyless right-click slog through Monster Manual handouts with no story developments anywhere along the way.
This video will at least make sure I'm caught up before playing 3, and the gods only know if I'll ever actually beat these two, so thanks for uploading it and while you're at it, making it a longer and more in-depth look such as this so I don't miss any of the smaller details.
I hate how the narration isn't synced to the on screen text. As someone who isn't native to an english speaking country, it confuses me.
Anyway, great video!
Fantastic work, thank you.
Cheers for doing this...I've been trying really hard to play baldurs gate one because I heard that and bg2 are some of the greatest RPGs ever but it's a struggle trying to play the first...I have no idea what I'm doing..and the graphics are pretty painful 😂
The game of thrones references is strong in this game
DnD had already been around 20 years when the first GoT book came out
@@MortismalGaming sure, just a little funny a game made in the 90s had an iron throne, seven sons and the faceless men. Just cool references
That Bhaal guy is a real swinger.
This is so good. Thanks. And it's pleasing other people are saying the same thing to you. You deserve the praise.
Longer than I thought . Wonderful
Bg 1 and 2 are really hard games to get into if you've never played them back in the day. I had no problem replaying ice wind Dale 2, id1 and both bgs felt like a real slog. It took forever to lvl up and lvl ups themselves didn't offer you much variety especially at first.
I wonder if the millennials would play bg 1 and 2.
@@alonzo4164 1993 here, first rpg was Ocarina.
I enjoy RPGs , and have played Magic the gathering so I'm familiar with the world in a sense.
I really like the voice acting and the feeling of looking down on an adventure unfolding Infront of me. But i could not get into it as much as I would of liked.
I also don't like point and click games.
But do love older RPGs like Chrono trigger, Morrowind ect
@@alonzo4164 im a millennial who absolutely loves these games. Theres a particular kind of depth, challenge, writing tone that all are absent in modern games that aren't pathfinder
@@alonzo4164millennials are in their mid to late 30s and early 40s. BG1 came out in like 1998? We played these games as kids/teens. Lol
Is that Jolee? That's pretty sweet.
Cool they all got linked in to 1 video
Very useful video. Wanted some refresher as I got BG3.
Damn, Siege of Dragonspear's story feels so disappointing in comparison to the other games. Thank you for being a beacon of shining light through the forgotten, dim lit cavern that is this game.
Great recapitulation!
Loving these recaps for BG1&2, especially since I never played them and recently finished my Dark Urge campaign in BG3. Would love a video on the companion stories from the first two games--especially those that are in BG3 (I only know of Jaheira, Minsc, Viconia). Cheers!
BG1 companions barely had stories, basically just their introductions and some dialogue here and there. BG2 is more fleshed out but only a handful actually get full stories.
@@MortismalGaming Is it because there are so many recruitable party members?
This was great thank you so much
Bingeing your supercuts! The most disappointing thing is that they can't make games fast enough and soon I will be all caught up ....
New to the channel and binging on this series. Great content!
Thank you! I hate RTWP so this really helps.
Kobbolds?!
The oppening cinematic of the original is waaaaaaay better. It tells so much more than the remastered version.
Amazing.Thanks!
Even though ive never played any of the baulder gate games and don't realy have an intereste, i do enjoy listening to the stories, those do intereste me so thanks fir doing this, I've looked it up but none of the other videos are as thorough as yours so good job man.
Awesome work!:)
This pronunciation of kobolds is wild
Become ungovernable
I didn't understand any of the story because I'd kill all 'bad' guys immediately. I didn't use subtlety. I didn't even add the two P.Cs who were of evil alignment, preferring to remove their HP instead. I'd just go from area to area ending the reign of all the bad guys with any guidance coming from the cut scenes.
Awesome video! But the pronunciation of these names are so off, it’s funny
I have never felt so old in my life lol
This brought back so much fond memories.
Id like to take the time to redo BG1-2 but honestly, the clunky movement turns me off too much now. Even with the enhanced editions, time has taken its toll in my eyes, especially when you can imagine how it could look now whenever I play Pathfinder.
Getting ready for Bg3
I just get bg2 and literaly Lost at My first enemy, at least i could watch this excelent recap 👏