Baldur's Gate Beamdog's Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 Enhanced Editions

[Curratum]

This looks interesting. I might give it a try if it's not too much of a pain to install and uninstall. Thanks!

 

[PrettyDeadman]

So, did this patch finally made it better than the original?

 

[oldmanpaco]

ok, so how am I supposed to use bigworld setup when Spellhold Studios is down?

Apparently this is the new shit:

https://baldursextendedworld.com/Install-Tool/

 

[Jvegi]

The link looks like it's a porn mod. Sadly it's not the case.

 

[Grunker]

Use Lefreut's UI for EET. It's p. great.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Whose idea was this ugly ui revamp?

Herp derp BG had textures made out of coffee beans herp derp haha so old here let me replace a good looking menu with a shitty, blurry picture haha BG is ready for modern audiences now

PS:T EE is an amazing EE. As for the others, Curratum is absolutely right. The autism that Codexers exhibit when it comes to shit as benign as UI and animation changes is so never ceases to amaze me. The UI looks fine to me and the in game UI is preferable to the original versions, and who the fuck gives a shit about some minor animations? The upgrades to the resolution, the in game UI, and the QoL updates are worth paying an extra 5-10 bucks over the original version. Go ahead and down rate me, I don't give a fuck.

Because you're a retarded newfag, that's why you think these shitty EEs are so amazing and worth 10 bucks extra for mostly doing what free mods already did. Literally the only QoL (term that reatarded newfags like to use, btw) that's worth anything is the instant saving. And that's not worth $10 extra.

And obviously the horrendously ugly UI would look good to you seeing how you have horrendously shit taste.

lol at "Go ahead and down rate me, I don't give a fuck.". Such a tough guy. Go ahead and say mean things to me, I don't care. ((((

 

[Yosharian]

Surely the biggest problem is that the latest patch broke the game.

 

[ItsChon]

Because you're a retarded newfag, that's why you think these shitty EEs are so amazing and worth 10 bucks extra for mostly doing what free mods already did.

Except when I ask you to substantiate why these EE's are shit, the only thing you have to say are useless platitudes about how "mods did it first". The only time I ever seen someone take something up the ass so fucking hard over ten dollars is when I'm browsing porn.

lol at "Go ahead and down rate me, I don't give a fuck.". Such a tough guy.

Lol, keep talking shit homo. I guarantee you're a fucking troglodyte that's probably never lifted a weight in his life. I'll post a pic of myself as soon as you do, and I put it down that I'd be able to bend you over and fuck you like the faggot you are if we were face to face.

 

[ArchAngel]

Ok let me start that war.
Here is my pic:

Spoiler

Come at me bitches!

 

[Theldaran]

I can't really play BG2EE like at all. The game crashes if I want to do as much as loading a saved game. Quality enhancing

 

[Sykar]

Because you're a retarded newfag, that's why you think these shitty EEs are so amazing and worth 10 bucks extra for mostly doing what free mods already did.

Except when I ask you to substantiate why these EE's are shit, the only thing you have to say are useless platitudes about how "mods did it first". The only time I ever seen someone take something up the ass so fucking hard over ten dollars is when I'm browsing porn.

lol at "Go ahead and down rate me, I don't give a fuck.". Such a tough guy.

Lol, keep talking shit homo. I guarantee you're a fucking troglodyte that's probably never lifted a weight in his life. I'll post a pic of myself as soon as you do, and I put it down that I'd be able to bend you over and fuck you like the faggot you are if we were face to face.

They are shit because they are shameless cashgrabs which do nothing more than what mods have done for free for well over a decade. What is worse the new shit they included is in large parts jarring, unfitting and so hilariously badly written that anyone defending this pile of turd is nothing but a blithering retard. To add insult to injury they go around and pretend like this was their own work while they are nothing but leeches sucking off the brilliance of Black Isle studios.

 

[Cael]

Because you're a retarded newfag, that's why you think these shitty EEs are so amazing and worth 10 bucks extra for mostly doing what free mods already did.

Except when I ask you to substantiate why these EE's are shit, the only thing you have to say are useless platitudes about how "mods did it first". The only time I ever seen someone take something up the ass so fucking hard over ten dollars is when I'm browsing porn.

lol at "Go ahead and down rate me, I don't give a fuck.". Such a tough guy.

Lol, keep talking shit homo. I guarantee you're a fucking troglodyte that's probably never lifted a weight in his life. I'll post a pic of myself as soon as you do, and I put it down that I'd be able to bend you over and fuck you like the faggot you are if we were face to face.

They are shit because they are shameless cashgrabs which do nothing more than what mods have done for free for well over a decade. What is worse the new shit they included is in large parts jarring, unfitting and so hilariously badly written that anyone defending this pile of turd is nothing but a blithering retard. To add insult to injury they go around and pretend like this was their own work while they are nothing but leeches sucking off the brilliance of Black Isle studios.

 

[Curratum]

Use Lefreut's UI for EET. It's p. great.

I strained for a minute to spot any difference and I could not.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Surely the biggest problem is that the latest patch broke the game.

Again?

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

ok, so how am I supposed to use bigworld setup when Spellhold Studios is down?

Apparently this is the new shit:

https://baldursextendedworld.com/Install-Tool/

yes, I used it shortly after posting and it works pretty well. Not sure I like how it installs BG1 mods into BG1 first, but maybe it needs to.

Apparently the author is a bit...odd, but she did some nice work.

Modders need all their work on Github from now on. SHS had some of the best mods on it and now they're gone.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Except when I ask you to substantiate why these EE's are shit,

They were shit in a variety of ways especially at the start. The new characters are horribly written and annoying. There were items added that were completely unbalanced. SoD was unneeded, unbalancing and altered the story. They were very buggy and they broke most mods. They didn't run well and had major performance issues (like every time an enemy died, it'd take 5 to 30 seconds to process on my system, still takes time sometimes btw).

Now, it's a lot better, they've patched out most of the balance and bug issues and mods can fix the rest.

But it's been YEARS getting here and the originals were already mostly fixed by modders anyway.

So the question isn't why the EEs are shit, it's why did we need them in the first place?

 

[agris]

Use Lefreut's UI for EET. It's p. great.

Thank you, that’s a great UI mod. The last time we discussed the pros and cons of the EEs, I recall that you had no problem with the 2.x journal presentation. Rather, I believe that you liked it. Did you change your mind, or are you willing to put up with the regressed journal UI for the other parts?

 

[agris]

Use Lefreut's UI for EET. It's p. great.

I strained for a minute to spot any difference and I could not.

Have you looked at or played any of the 2.x versions of the EEs? The UI regressed, a lot. This mod is akin to a v1.3 / vanilla mashup. The modder even took out the ridiculous XP bar.

 

[ItsChon]

They are shit because they are shameless cashgrabs which do nothing more than what mods have done for free for well over a decade. What is worse the new shit they included is in large parts jarring, unfitting and so hilariously badly written that anyone defending this pile of turd is nothing but a blithering retard. To add insult to injury they go around and pretend like this was their own work while they are nothing but leeches sucking off the brilliance of Black Isle studios.

You know what else the EE's did? They opened up these old games to entirely new markets that likely had no idea how about the extensive modding community behind these games. I didn't know shit about these games having mods, and I researched them for a bit before I bought the originals. Just looking at BG high res tutorials, you can see people asking questions in the comments and trying to figure shit out. A lot of people probably say fuck it and can't be bothered to go through all that. Plus, the UI and characters got extremely fucking small when you scaled up the games to larger resolutions. The EE's not only did what mods did, but they did it a little bit better.

They were shit in a variety of ways especially at the start.

In one of my first posts I wrote defending my EE, I clarified that they were now good after a variety of patches had come out fixing all the issues with bugs and such. I had 0 problems when playing the enhanced versions of BG 1 & 2, IWD, and PS:T.

The new characters are horribly written and annoying. There were items added that were completely unbalanced.

Which new characters? In the base game? Please describe to me which ones were horribly written and annoying. I actually liked Neera, Rasaad was boring but some of his back story regarding his origin was interesting, and Dorn seemed cool as well. I never interacted with Baeloth so maybe he was badly written, but this seems like an inane complaint; especially since you could just ignore them. As for the items being unbalanced, just lol. This has no effect on the vast majority of casual players, and the hardcore players already know how to break the games balance.

So the question isn't why the EEs are shit, it's why did we need them in the first place?

I'm fine with people making the argument that we really didn't NEED the EE's, though I would disagree with that statement, but claiming that they're shit after they've been all patched up and work fine now is blatant autism. Like I said, they opened up these classic games to entirely new markets of people, and introduced several QoL features that made the game better.

Come at me bitches!

Cute, except FeelTheRads is a little bitch boy that didn't say a fucking word in response once I called his homosexual ass out. And believe me, when I post a pic it won't have to be something pulled off of google images. In general, queers that act aggressive as fuck over the internet do so because they never have the chance to act aggressive in real life. When little Johnny gets kicked and shit on by everyone he happens to come across in real life, it's only natural he tries to do the same in the only medium he can, I.E, the internet. Don't talk shit if you're not willing to prove that you're not a fucking incel.

 

[Parabalus]

Except when I ask you to substantiate why these EE's are shit,

There were items added that were completely unbalanced. SoD was unneeded, unbalancing and altered the story.

Which items irked you? I found the additions to be at least decent, some are really good/cool.

 

[ItsChon]

Note the faggot that rated my response to him retarded, but has nothing to say in terms of a response. Sykar

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

they were now good after a variety of patches

*after YEARS of patches. My game was unplayable due to the aforementioned lag on enemy death for over a year.

Which new characters? In the base game? Please describe to me which ones were horribly written and annoying.

It wouldn't be worth it. They're objectively bad and if you don't see that...

I actually liked Neera

...then maybe you just have bad taste.

As for the items being unbalanced, just lol. This has no effect on the vast majority of casual players, and the hardcore players already know how to break the games balance.

Making a game MORE unbalanced and broken isn't exactly what I'd call "enhanced".

I'm fine with people making the argument that we really didn't NEED the EE's, though I would disagree with that statement

Then you dodged the question: why did we need them?

Like I said, they opened up these classic games to entirely new markets of people

GOG and Steam were already doing that with the originals and introducing thousands of newbs to an established fanbase can be seen as a double edged sword.

introduced several QoL features that made the game better.

They weren't worth the years of game breaking bugs etc.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

faggot

faggot

homo

homosexual

Do we have another HHR here?

 

[ItsChon]

*after YEARS of patches. My game was unplayable due to the aforementioned lag on enemy death for over a year.

Again, I'm referring to the state of the Enhanced Edition as it is now, after the years of patches. If someone wants to say that they were shit when they came out, but in a decent enough state now, I'd agree with them. That's not the consensus on the Codex though.

It wouldn't be worth it. They're objectively bad and if you don't see that...

...then maybe you just have bad taste.

Can't argue if you don't bring up any evidence. Even if they are bad, it's optional content that has no real bearing on the game. And clearly I'm not the only one who thought they weren't that bad.

Making a game MORE unbalanced and broken isn't exactly what I'd call "enhanced".

Except it's only unbalanced if you go out of your way to do so. I played on hard and there were several fights in the game that required various reloads and tactics to get out of with everyone alive. What items were broken, name them please.

Then you dodged the question: why did we need them?

Bro...

You know what else the EE's did? They opened up these old games to entirely new markets that likely had no idea how about the extensive modding community behind these games. I didn't know shit about these games having mods, and I researched them for a bit before I bought the originals. Just looking at BG high res tutorials, you can see people asking questions in the comments and trying to figure shit out. A lot of people probably say fuck it and can't be bothered to go through all that. Plus, the UI and characters got extremely fucking small when you scaled up the games to larger resolutions. The EE's not only did what mods did, but they did it a little bit better.

Like I said, they opened up these classic games to entirely new markets of people, and introduced several QoL features that made the game better.

Why do we need anything? BG 1 EE sold between 500,000 and a million copies on Steam. If that's not indicative of these games opening up a new market, I don't know what is.

GOG and Steam were already doing that with the originals and introducing thousands of newbs to an established fanbase can be seen as a double edged sword.

It's objectively a good thing if we want more games like this (old school isometric RPGS). And again, look at the Steam sales for BG EE. That's not even counting the sales on GOG, which would probably raise the number up even more.

They weren't worth the years of game breaking bugs etc.

*shrug* I never had to deal with any of that shit, so it was definitely worth it for me.

Do we have another HHR here?

Don't know who that is, but I use retard and cocksucker just as much as I do faggot. Lots of faggots on this thread through.

 

[Chippy]

Surely the biggest problem is that the latest patch broke the game.

Are you referring to the latest 2.5 patch? This would be particularly hilarious for me because I tried a playthrough before 2.5 and got several CTD bugs, and someone here went full retard on me and said that as long as Beamdog continue to improve the game, it was the game that mattered, and it was pricks like me who didn't report bugs that left each release of the game in the shit condition it's in.

So can we at least blame the Beamdog fans for breaking the game this time? Or is that so logical that its retarded?.