NEWS:

02.27.04 - Terrence Marks:

Yes, I'm back to playing Baldur's Gate II. No, my wife doesn't like it too much. My main goal is to go through as much of the Tortured Souls mod as I can, so I'm playing with Minsc, Aeire, Yoshimo, Kachiko, and Sime. I've got everything all tricked out and it's 95% legit. I've cheated myself up a few mind-control prevention items and tweaked the saving throws. It's just easier that way. I don't mind running low on potions. I don't mind sitting back for ten minutes while my guys regenerate. It's when I've got everybody decked in +4 equipment all around, AC -8, and some orc mage casts a confusion spell and my guys get cut down by zombies. Or I'm fighting a half-dozen spiders and get webbed. And poisoned. Repeatedly. So I just sit around taking damage. And what bugs me is that I was cutting through the same enemies in BG1 like a scythe through wheat. And I've got much cooler stuff now. I mean there I was at level 6 with a longsword +2 and maybe a magic shield if I was lucky and they were falling like flies. Now I'm level 14. I'm dual-wielding +4 axes with extra cold and electricity damage. And I'm getting beat by Shadows and Ogre Magi because some guy didn't think they were using their spells "efficiently enough". Or because he thought all the larger enemies needed ranged attack that knock your character unconscious for three rounds and send them across the screen. Or that stone golems need ranged attacks that do 3D10+5 damage twice a round. So I think I need to get into pencil & paper D&D or something. It's just that I want to beat BG2 before I start Neverwinter Nights. I've got a copy of WarCraft III that needs playing. And I want to beat Grim Fandango and Curse of Monkey Island...No, I'm not really new game people. Part of it is that there's so many games to catch up on. This was written before we left and turned out to be entirely inaccurate - TM