D'Arnise Keep - one of the best sidequests ever in the history of CRPG's. Plus if you're the right character class, you can end up owning it and will be involved throughout the game in the running of the place.
No matter how many times I hear this song I always feel like it was left unfinished... which is a shame, because it's awesome... Also it was a shame you could never romance Nalia.... I hope they change that in the Enhanced Edition comin' up.
I think your attitude is just the right one. Which is a critical approach to the gaming experience. If more people would be like you, rewarding the qulity rather than the"new" at any cost, the companies would invest more in quality rather than quantity. But I guess this is normal for every product on the market. Nonetheless, I reckon that this is a happy moment for the creation of new games: loads of titles (not all of them masterpieces, of course.
In Dragon Age and Mass Effect there are BG cameos. In one Dragon Age game, I think it's DA2, there is a barmaid called Edwina, she is very bitter if I recall. At the end of BG2 it is said Edwin was turned into a woman of the same name. In Mass Effect there are mentions of space hamsters. You can buy one in Mass Effect 2 and 3 I think. It's a Boo cameo.
the good games just come out every once a whyle. Sometimes by chance. It is not just amatter of period (I doubt that so muche changed in script writing between now and early 00s). Baldur's gate and IWD are masterpieces. That happened because there were the good writers, the good musicians, the good porgrammers, the good producers all in one with the aD&D. It is not always easy to get that perfect combination. There are going to be other games with a deep literary quality.
Considering it has been YEARS since Iplayed it and almost forgotten everything about it....we ALL can have a similiar experience I guess if we just haven't played it long enough xD
You're highlighting the same problem that also book publishing companies and the movie industry has. It is the good and the bad of the market law. It would be nice to have a gaming industry that decide to invest on the creation of games as a form of art-entertainment. I am sure it is going to happen. What scares me the most now is the increasing of small games for portable devices. I hope it will just be a pocket of market and that it will not affect too bad the production of PC games.
If you ever played Dragon Age Origins in the Ultimate Edition...it came very close to the spirit that BA2 had, it certainly wasn't a similiar experience, but the old vibe was kind of back there again. If you haven't played DAO I highly recommend it :)
I seriously hope you see it to the end! More than one time. If you're a true RPG'er you're not done with it. I can recommend a few classes. Half-orc Barbarian, Mage(no specialization), Halfling Thief(Assassin), Human Mage/Kensai multiclassed, Monk. Those are just my favorites of course. Halfling is perfect for thief because of its bonus to thief abilities, especially hide in shadows for the assassin. to be continued..
@TheAvatar15 Yeah, BG II was one of the games where you could have certain love interests, but if I'm remembering it right it's waaay trickier about that stuff than modern BW games are. And glad to hear you like it :)
It was actually inspired by it. On a breakdown of dragon age they were directly inspired and wanted to make it as similar as possible but still make it a different game. They called it a game wide cameo of baldurs gate xD
@Thunker71 as i was saying i always had Nalia in my party mostly because i didnt know where Edwin was. I have played with Nalia in my party all the way from Copper Cornet to final Battle in Throne of Bhaal and do i regret having her in my party instead of Edwin? Not at all.
@TheAvatar15 Its the best Game ever if you like RP. Enjoy it as much as you can it will never be the same if you have completed it once. Enjoy it. Its really awesome ^^
@Justforvisit Yeah, no kidding... I mean you finish taking out this pile of trolls and your party's half dead so you're staggering over to the healer, when suddenly Aerie's all like "Did I ever tell you what it was like to fly?" then Jaheira goes "Pull yourself together girl! Charname, when will you tell her to face up to the..." and you're just like "BHAAL DAMMIT LADIES SHUT UP I'M BLEEDING ON THE GROUND GIVE ME 5 SECONDS"... then Haer'Dalis starts hittin on Aerie... good times
..continued There is a mod that can remove the experience limiter if you want to go beyond 2.9 million xp per character. It can be fun to play your character with more cards on your hand if you decide to do a 2nd or 3rd playthrough. I recommend raising the difficulty after the 1st playthrough if you do this.
indeed...and, yeah...i just hate that we are on the suffering end of it, and we are the ones that will give them their pathetic burgerking wages after all
im a hardcore gamer...i got my fill of CoD from modern warefare 1...i didn.t need to play the second one, it looked like the first in my opinion...they pop out some game everyyear and pump out non-free maps in the process....sounds likea great idea if your company is a total peice of shit that only cares about coin, and not the customers they lose cumulatively....guess they might have to rely on their adds
Just don't let it get to you. It's nothing special if someone doesn't like you on the Internet and Opinions are opinions. Buuut I wouldn't call them rip off's either, in my opinion, they're both pretty different personality-wise. If you mean the mere appereance, well, ok, there indeed IS some striking resemblance. But if we only go after this to call someone a ripoff, Mario and Wario are the absolute same person :o
To merge the tracks? You won't believe it, but, Windows Movie Maker in the Windows Vista version ^^ I miss it though, the new one of Windos 7 is pretty much inferior in every aspect to it ._.
There's definitely comparisons to be made Bioware made Dragon Age because they couldn't continue making games on the Baldur's Gate franchise since it was set in the Forgotten Realms which is D&D ( owner rights issue here ). They did Mass Effect because they couldn't do Knights of the Old Republic anymore for the same reasons. Dragon Age is pretty much the orphan child of Baldur's Gate. I'm surprised BG fans like you guys don't know that much about Bioware and their successive games.
The company changed so much even by the time DA1 came out, all of the black isle people were gone and the original bioware teams on the bg series had been dispersed within the company. It had SOME original people but for people like myself who think the BG era was the pinnacle of gaming, it's easy to stop caring about the modern contributions, since they've taken so many liberties in changing gameplay you can legit question if they're RPG's. It's also conicedently why WoW has lost half it's player base since TBC/Wrath; game design is a delicate balance.
afterall..i would not want to be in the ending credits of a game that succeeded but failed its fans...and then i get paid...that is not right to my eye's
@Thunker71 whats up with people whining about Nalia? Edwin has way more spellsslots but Nalia is good too i think she had the best ending. She acually has better stats than Edwin in fact she may have the best stats of all the NCS excluding Sarevok. I played BG2 a ton of times when i was a kid and i always had Nalia as my mage except for when my own character was a mage. (Fuck you comment limit)
hmmm, heh..i don't have to be a betting man to see that the practices of late...which are tossing Dog shit at a canvas sells a painting for at least a gain and a paycheck....Personally i am an artist of sorts...i care about what i put out on the shelf, if it goes that far...because personally it matter if " I EVEN LIKE IT" and not that if ill get paid or not...Art is not monkey's tossing shit at canvas, Art is people getting the job done right, Graphics or not, fuck it get it done, or hold off
Neverwinter nights 2 was pretty good...But after that...It seems Great games like BG and neverwinter nights are no longer in demand...the type of style that it is, i beleive is in high demand since it has great praise...it puzzles me why game makers just think they can get away with the bs they pop out of their twats today...As if people are supposed to like the art of "monkeys tossing their Shit at a canvas" then selling it cuz it looks good...but it stinks like shit otherwise...hmmph
the thing is you can get away with using those same type of game engines..and they are not even bothing to work into it...all i see going on is wasting time and money on Stupid Failure MMo crap, that time and coin could be better spent on making another planescape game...or another forgotten realms game that feels epic since they jumped the era 100 years from its previous date...Shoundt be hard to pop in an epic story there...but alas, who cares when CoD is there to play each year...(spits)
D'Arnise Keep - one of the best sidequests ever in the history of CRPG's. Plus if you're the right character class, you can end up owning it and will be involved throughout the game in the running of the place.
It does give the feels of old Conan the Barbarian movie.
A lot of themes have that feel. For example Marching Mountains from ToB especially
Michael Hoenig definitely had Basil Poledouris in mind when he composed these soundtracks
Nalia looks like the lovechild of Drew Barrymore and Julianne Moore.
Kind of, eh? ^^
@@Justforvisit Just "kind of", yes :-^).
@Αρμάνδος Δελαπατρίδης Thank you!
@Αρμάνδος Δελαπατρίδης By the way, I wonder why there wasn't a Nalia Romance option.
@Αρμάνδος Δελαπατρίδης That doesn't surprise me in the least.
Holy crap this is an awesome tune, gets me pumped up to play the game.
NOSTALGIA'D
Baldur's Gate was the last game of the golden gaming age.
RIP games with a soul of platinum, and a heart of all that is fun
U alive bro?
Yeah I always loved this short theme. Thanks for making it longer! :D
Here in 2019 where this song is still amazing. Larian you better not f--k this up!
ahh old memories of torgal and his trolls, thanks for posting. great job on the merging btw
No matter how many times I hear this song I always feel like it was left unfinished... which is a shame, because it's awesome...
Also it was a shame you could never romance Nalia.... I hope they change that in the Enhanced Edition comin' up.
Update... they don't😢
@@heathcw5281 There is a mod that adds allows the PC to romance Nalia.
@Justforvisit Thanks for the extended play! This is a great song with much potential.
Just installed Shadows of Amn for the first time! :)
Did you finish?;)
I think your attitude is just the right one. Which is a critical approach to the gaming experience. If more people would be like you, rewarding the qulity rather than the"new" at any cost, the companies would invest more in quality rather than quantity. But I guess this is normal for every product on the market. Nonetheless, I reckon that this is a happy moment for the creation of new games: loads of titles (not all of them masterpieces, of course.
In Dragon Age and Mass Effect there are BG cameos. In one Dragon Age game, I think it's DA2, there is a barmaid called Edwina, she is very bitter if I recall. At the end of BG2 it is said Edwin was turned into a woman of the same name. In Mass Effect there are mentions of space hamsters. You can buy one in Mass Effect 2 and 3 I think. It's a Boo cameo.
that's a lie
That thing about Boo the Space Hamster in Mass Effect is indeed true.
Also, in Mass Effect one of Tali's battle cries is "Go For the Optics!", which is a reference to Minsc's "Go for the eyes, Boo!" shout.
the good games just come out every once a whyle. Sometimes by chance. It is not just amatter of period (I doubt that so muche changed in script writing between now and early 00s). Baldur's gate and IWD are masterpieces. That happened because there were the good writers, the good musicians, the good porgrammers, the good producers all in one with the aD&D. It is not always easy to get that perfect combination. There are going to be other games with a deep literary quality.
nice man :D I wish I could play the saga for the first time :D
Great music from a very great game a
after all these years Baldur's Gate 2:SoA is still my favorite
will there ever be anything like it ever again
Considering it has been YEARS since Iplayed it and almost forgotten everything about it....we ALL can have a similiar experience I guess if we just haven't played it long enough xD
You're highlighting the same problem that also book publishing companies and the movie industry has. It is the good and the bad of the market law. It would be nice to have a gaming industry that decide to invest on the creation of games as a form of art-entertainment. I am sure it is going to happen. What scares me the most now is the increasing of small games for portable devices. I hope it will just be a pocket of market and that it will not affect too bad the production of PC games.
@TheAvatar15 Don't forget to get the Throne of Bhaal - it's probably the best RPG expansion pack I've ever played!
I am so jealous that you can play it for the first time!
I was actually just about to write that!
@Justforvisit I am having fun, just recruted Valygar into my party!
And I have some sort of thing (love/romance) going on with Jaheira?
If you ever played Dragon Age Origins in the Ultimate Edition...it came very close to the spirit that BA2 had, it certainly wasn't a similiar experience, but the old vibe was kind of back there again. If you haven't played DAO I highly recommend it :)
I seriously hope you see it to the end! More than one time. If you're a true RPG'er you're not done with it.
I can recommend a few classes. Half-orc Barbarian, Mage(no specialization), Halfling Thief(Assassin), Human Mage/Kensai multiclassed, Monk.
Those are just my favorites of course. Halfling is perfect for thief because of its bonus to thief abilities, especially hide in shadows for the assassin.
to be continued..
Thank you for this! If you happen to be interested I am producing some cover versions of BG2 classics, would love to hear what you think of them
@TheAvatar15 Yeah, BG II was one of the games where you could have certain love interests, but if I'm remembering it right it's waaay trickier about that stuff than modern BW games are. And glad to hear you like it :)
It was actually inspired by it. On a breakdown of dragon age they were directly inspired and wanted to make it as similar as possible but still make it a different game. They called it a game wide cameo of baldurs gate xD
All Baldur's Gate music touches the primitive in us.
Vote up everybody who wants for Nalia to be romanceable in BG2 Extended
Whoa. Wow. I can't believe he just wrote that :P
@Thunker71 as i was saying i always had Nalia in my party mostly because i didnt know where Edwin was.
I have played with Nalia in my party all the way from Copper Cornet to final Battle in Throne of Bhaal and do i regret having her in my party instead of Edwin? Not at all.
you made me want to have minsk squashing torgal again O.O
Thank you :)
tyvm :)
HAIL OLD CLASSIC !
Good job!
luckily they gonna release this year the enhanced edition of BG1 and BG2, with improved graphics, hd resolution and so on
@TheAvatar15 Its the best Game ever if you like RP. Enjoy it as much as you can it will never be the same if you have completed it once. Enjoy it. Its really awesome ^^
@TheAvatar15 Have fun with this awesome world :)
@Justforvisit Yeah, no kidding... I mean you finish taking out this pile of trolls and your party's half dead so you're staggering over to the healer, when suddenly Aerie's all like "Did I ever tell you what it was like to fly?" then Jaheira goes "Pull yourself together girl! Charname, when will you tell her to face up to the..." and you're just like "BHAAL DAMMIT LADIES SHUT UP I'M BLEEDING ON THE GROUND GIVE ME 5 SECONDS"... then Haer'Dalis starts hittin on Aerie... good times
And then just hours ago, Greg Zeschuk and Roy Muzyka have announced they leave not only BioWare, but the whole Gaming Industry ._.
RIP BioWare :'(
..continued
There is a mod that can remove the experience limiter if you want to go beyond 2.9 million xp per character. It can be fun to play your character with more cards on your hand if you decide to do a 2nd or 3rd playthrough. I recommend raising the difficulty after the 1st playthrough if you do this.
Thx :)
This guy was soo lucky. :)
...can you release the .mp3 or .wav of this?
Daaaamn true that :o
really when? i´d love to know that. my PC sometimes struggles with the ancient scratched CDs^^
Haha...well done ;D
My First Vid to hit 1000 Views!
Big THX to all who watched and hoepfully also enjoyed the music!
And perhaps the Game as well
indeed...and, yeah...i just hate that we are on the suffering end of it, and we are the ones that will give them their pathetic burgerking wages after all
Neah, Troika made the last great games of the golden age. Which says allot, since basically Troika is equal with Black Isle.
i would count nwn also to the golden games but the second one no more.
With the coming of kickstarter it helped the situation alot. If you haven't heard from Project Eternity already, here you go watch?v=YyRAbDgHSlU
im a hardcore gamer...i got my fill of CoD from modern warefare 1...i didn.t need to play the second one, it looked like the first in my opinion...they pop out some game everyyear and pump out non-free maps in the process....sounds likea great idea if your company is a total peice of shit that only cares about coin, and not the customers they lose cumulatively....guess they might have to rely on their adds
Uhm.....that's Nalia D'Arnise on the pic from Baldur's Gate II o.O
lolz too true.
you know, a very great game with great music would be Dark Souls
Look into Project Eternity, mate, if you haven't already :)
Just don't let it get to you. It's nothing special if someone doesn't like you on the Internet and Opinions are opinions.
Buuut I wouldn't call them rip off's either, in my opinion, they're both pretty different personality-wise.
If you mean the mere appereance, well, ok, there indeed IS some striking resemblance. But if we only go after this to call someone a ripoff, Mario and Wario are the absolute same person :o
Oh really? Didn't know that ^^
HAH! He FAILED soooo bad. :D
I need to find a Baldur's Gate 2 soundtrack that contains this song, extended or not!
RIGHT HERE DOOD
YOUR AT THE RIGHT PLACE :D
It is sarcasm good sir, though I suppose the tone in which I speak can not be portrayed along the internet. xD
To merge the tracks? You won't believe it, but, Windows Movie Maker in the Windows Vista version ^^
I miss it though, the new one of Windos 7 is pretty much inferior in every aspect to it ._.
adolf fought the banks
Which software did you use ? =)
There's definitely comparisons to be made Bioware made Dragon Age because they couldn't continue making games on the Baldur's Gate franchise since it was set in the Forgotten Realms which is D&D ( owner rights issue here ). They did Mass Effect because they couldn't do Knights of the Old Republic anymore for the same reasons. Dragon Age is pretty much the orphan child of Baldur's Gate. I'm surprised BG fans like you guys don't know that much about Bioware and their successive games.
The company changed so much even by the time DA1 came out, all of the black isle people were gone and the original bioware teams on the bg series had been dispersed within the company. It had SOME original people but for people like myself who think the BG era was the pinnacle of gaming, it's easy to stop caring about the modern contributions, since they've taken so many liberties in changing gameplay you can legit question if they're RPG's. It's also conicedently why WoW has lost half it's player base since TBC/Wrath; game design is a delicate balance.
Why does a BG fan need to know "that much" about Bioware? Can't they just simply enjoy the game without knowing about its owner?
Because compared to BG 1+2 those games are shite
As good as Dark Souls is (I play it too btw.) it is absolutely NO comparision to this masterpiece here ;)
I was such a fool four years ago
@@Justforvisit How so?
Justforvisit But you were right! Please tell me your two years ago self would agree!
@@brenbail2000 They're both masterpieces, that's all I say :P
Justforvisit Fair point, ashen one. Praise the sun, bhaalspawn!
Ummm im living in Sweden so yeah and yeah i did write that comment around midnight so i guess i could say that.
But i still stand by what i said.
= D
afterall..i would not want to be in the ending credits of a game that succeeded but failed its fans...and then i get paid...that is not right to my eye's
Mine doesn't even work. Just like Windows Media Player.
Leliana would be, but that Nalia and she wouldn't be. Also, what??
Mhm! ^.^
Aw :/
@Thunker71 whats up with people whining about Nalia?
Edwin has way more spellsslots but Nalia is good too i think she had the best ending.
She acually has better stats than Edwin in fact she may have the best stats of all the NCS excluding Sarevok.
I played BG2 a ton of times when i was a kid and i always had Nalia as my mage except for when my own character was a mage.
(Fuck you comment limit)
*sigh* ether learn this: Everyone has their own opinion about everything!
Or just please stop commenting -.-
hmmm, heh..i don't have to be a betting man to see that the practices of late...which are tossing Dog shit at a canvas sells a painting for at least a gain and a paycheck....Personally i am an artist of sorts...i care about what i put out on the shelf, if it goes that far...because personally it matter if " I EVEN LIKE IT" and not that if ill get paid or not...Art is not monkey's tossing shit at canvas, Art is people getting the job done right, Graphics or not, fuck it get it done, or hold off
Oh and that annoying auntie of hers
Leliana's a copycat of Imoen from Baldur's Gate 2
Drew Barrymore anyone?
tom green was the inspiration behind Baldur's gate's character the bard
Drew Barrymore and Julianne Moore had a child.
не знаю по моему плохой путник, по игре
No need to be THAT rude o_O Especially to a 7 months old comment. Go raging somewhere else
Neverwinter nights 2 was pretty good...But after that...It seems Great games like BG and neverwinter nights are no longer in demand...the type of style that it is, i beleive is in high demand since it has great praise...it puzzles me why game makers just think they can get away with the bs they pop out of their twats today...As if people are supposed to like the art of "monkeys tossing their Shit at a canvas" then selling it cuz it looks good...but it stinks like shit otherwise...hmmph
Neither is Dragon Age though. It's good, but once again, no comparison.
the thing is you can get away with using those same type of game engines..and they are not even bothing to work into it...all i see going on is wasting time and money on Stupid Failure MMo crap, that time and coin could be better spent on making another planescape game...or another forgotten realms game that feels epic since they jumped the era 100 years from its previous date...Shoundt be hard to pop in an epic story there...but alas, who cares when CoD is there to play each year...(spits)
And then just hours ago, Greg Zeschuk and Roy Muzyka have announced they leave not only BioWare, but the whole Gaming Industry...
RIP BioWare :'(