I want to get into old Wrpgs cause I don’t know shit about them.
I played a few recent ones (Shadowrun, New Vegas, Deus Ex, fallout 1 and 2) but nothing D&D-like Frankly, i know absolutely nothing about D&D to begin with.
I heard a lot of good things about Torment and Baldur’s gate though, and seeing them on sale on GOG piqued my curiosity. Can I play these games without prior knowledge of D&D rules or should I read up a bit about them before attempting?
Are there any other Wrpg I should try before these?
Both are very good games - I've never played DnD but i finished planescape just fine
It can't hurt to look up the mechanics but honestly as long as you're not a total dummy you'll be fine
Chase Morgan
planescape is a good story but not really the kind of game to get you into dnd. play baldur's gate 1
Gavin Foster
>Can I play these games without prior knowledge of D&D rules or should I read up a bit about them before attempting? PST you can, because there's not a huge amount of combat and most of the fights are kinda basic and don't require a lot of prep. You could also go the brainlet route and boost STR and then pretty much every fight is a cakewalk (although it's recommend you play a high WIS/CHA character in your first game because you get the most out of it that way)
You should probably do a tiny bit of reading before you jump into BG though, just so you understand what stuff like THAC0 means and how the stats work (for example, lower AC = better in BG because it uses 2nd Edition rules). But again, you can just play something like a fighter or a mage or mage/thief and then the game isn't really that difficult
Jason Nguyen
Play Planescape first it's the best one
Levi Kelly
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Lincoln Cruz
All you need to know is Beamdog is a guilty of a number of different crimes. Here are the major ones.
1. The Enhanced Editions are essentially a collection of free mods that had existed for nearly twenty years. Beamdog gathered them all up, slapped "Enhanced Edition" on it and resold it as a new product. There's very very little in the Enhanced Editions that wasn't already out there, and most of it is stuff you don't want (like obnoxious character outlines).
2. The games didn't sell so well and the originals were still far outselling them, even twenty years after their release, so Beamdog had EVERY digital distributor stop selling the originals and ONLY sell the Enhanced Edition. If you want to buy a digital copy of the originals now, they're "bundled" into the Enhanced Edition. Now these scumbags can claim sales from people just wanting to buy the originals as their own.
3. The infamous 600+ bugs on launch. The game is still riddled with bugs (as even a perfunctory glance over their forums show) but the fact that it took nearly two years for them to get a game that had been working fine for 20 years to reach playability after launch is telling of their wild incompetence.
4. This is where we get to the ones that really piss people off. Beamdog couldn't just remaster the game, they had to fuck with the content too. New dialogue for existing NPCs like Jaheira, Viconia, Safana, Kivan, et cetera was written in to make the characters more progressive and leftist friendly. Beamdog shills will argue that "adding content isn't changing content XDDD" but it is when the new content changes the core personalities of the existing characters. This is in addition to adding a slew of their own LGBT (hitherto there were none in Baldur's Gate) NPCs, all flooded with OP attributes and magic items to encourage people to play them despite their cancer.
Ultima VI (with Nuvie source port) The Complete Ultima VII (with Exult source port and music pack) Ultima Underworld Ultima Underworld II Gothic Gothic II Gold Edition Planescape: Torment Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines
Nathan Thomas
yeah BG and PST are a good place to start, like another user said just read the manuals first so you understand how the stats and combat work first. I know a lot of anons hate the enhanced editions but I have the original GOG versions and could Mega them for you if you want.
