Baldur's Gate Confessions

Jan 20, 2017 14:39:00 GMT @domi said:

Kivan from BG1 is responcible for me not playing a lot of newer games -I just dove into modding because of him. And nowadays, I think he wouldn't make the cut with all the more advanced companions and way more elaborate backstories.

I liked BG1 more than BG2, because it had so many companions!

I only kept Minsc because of Dynaheir. He gets very boring very fast.

I love your Kivan mod, domi! I can't play BG2 without it. I only revived the wife once and didn't like her much, so Kivan always belongs to my PC, even if she doesn't romance him.

Agree that BG1 is much more fun with the NPC mod installed - everyone is way more talkative.

I romanced Anomen in my first game and then never again.

As a male I only romanced Aerie (one time).

The thought of romancing Jaheira creeps me out.

Also in my first game, after rescuing Imoen I told her to find her own way back. Jaheira got mad and left.

In both BG and BG2 I tend to stick with my early party since companions recruited later on are a much lower level than the PC and therefore pretty useless.

Beholders and liches suck.

Jan 21, 2017 17:48:28 GMT melbella said:

Jan 21, 2017 7:39:36 GMT Xesthan said:

Why does romancing Jaheira creep you out?

Also, I just made this connection. In BG, I got Jaheira killed by a bear, then in BG2, I l left her in the form of the animal that I got her killed with. That actually makes what I did to her even more twisted, and I didn't even hate her.

She and Khalid kind of assume the role of surrogate parents in BG, at least for me since I normally keep them in my party. At the least, she's in a mentor role for the PC. Romancing her only a couple years later just seems wrong. And gross. Not to mention the fact she just lost her husband. I like her too much as a character for that. Plus, the fact she will go against the Harpers for you without it being a romance thing is awesome.

I disagree on her & Khalid's roles. Yes, they promised Gorion to take care of the PC in the case something happened to him, but I distinctly got the feeling that it was an old promise from when the PC was still a child. By the time you meet them at the Friendly Arm, you're an adult and they've essentially barely aged at all due to how long (half-)elves live. If I were to convert everyone's ages to correspond with humans in real life, I'd say the PC is something like 20-23 and Khalid/Jaheira around 27-32 at the start of BG1. I never saw them as parental figures, though I will grant you that they're mentors for the (in BG1) still inexperienced adventurer, but even then the PC is the leader of the party, they don't really have a position of authority over him/her that would make a future romantic entaglement morally iffy.

As for Khalid's death and how it relates to a male PC romancing Jaheira in BG2, I thought it was very tastefully done. I think people get hung up on the fact that you're technically going down the romance "path" and the romance theme plays during your talks with her already very early on, but the actual content of your discussions with Jaheira doesn't get overtly romantic until much later. I'd say most of it is more the PC helping a dearly loved friend deal with their grief, and that eventually grows into a relationship. The problem lies more with the player if you're interpreting it as the PC just trying to get into her pants from the get go.

Oh, uh confessions? I find it near impossible to not keep Minsc, Jaheira and Imoen in my party in BG2. With all of them I feel an incredible sense of guilt and just feel like the biggest piece of shit if I leave them behind in favor of someone else taking their party slot.