

The cleric was a woman too, the IWD avatar of the blond girl with the mace. He used to hit on the party's thief, who then always hid in the shadows, starting to scout ahead instead of staying near the party heh. I know it's barbaric, but it was funny having a paladin act that way. Then they had this funny voiceset, one full of sarcasm and so. He died a lot the poor guy Got resurected everytime too, made like 50% or so of all the kills.

Give him an axe and we got a mean tempered dwarf who never retreats. It just so happens IWD had this voice set with just grunting. I had a pure dwarven fighter, Kuldjargh, literally Dwarven for Axe-Idiot. Though I did have a human fighter/mage, fighting with a staff or a sword, sort of in elderly mages voice, just not a picture of Gandalf Otherwise BG2 would have been on more than just 4 cd's Īs for snippets from my characters, it's been over 2 years I think, much of it has faded. Unless of course they repacked the game now, since in the course of time (IWD, BG2) they found more effective methods of packing the files on cd's. Nowadays it's €10 for 10 empty cd's (well, in regular stores that is, you can get em cheaper too), so getting 6 cd's for €10 isn't that bad. The original was on 5 cd's, +1 for the expansion heh. And €10 still is quite some, depending on which version you get. So if you're willing to get a bit older graphics, a few lesser options and generally be a low level punk, go get it. If you're used to the power you wield in BG2, don't bother with BG, it's puny character time. So you'll be mostly facing either weak monsters, or very strong bosses (since you're so weak still heh). Also, you start as level 1, don't forget, the max level in BG with expansion is like 7 or 8 (depending on your class). This is normal too for the reason DATD mentioned: The graphics in BG1 are a tad older, the rules are less expansive, it's a little bit more lineair too. I know multiple people who played BG2 first and then BG1 later on and said they didn't like the first one as much. Well, if you played BG2, it's a lot less likely you'll enjoy BG.
