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I'm seriously considering of buying Siege of Dragonspear. Should I wait for a sale instead?

>> No.5513057

>>5513030
cut your nuts off instead

>> No.5513173

do you like terrible fan fiction

>> No.5513226

>>5513030
always wait for a sale

>> No.5513260

>>5513030
How much is it? I played it, and it’s kind of fun, but not nearly as good as the original campaign.

>> No.5513281

>>5513030
Wait for sale. The gameplay and encounter design itself is not too bad - nowhere near the level of BG 2 for instance, but it's servicable enough. The writing is abysmal.
Overall though, this expansion is redundant.
It's one of those expansions/sequels/prequels/whatever that nobody asked for, are completely skippable and nobody knows why they were made in the first place.

>> No.5513340

This shit has no rights to even be called Baldur's Gate
No one working on the originals worked on this piece of trash, it was only called BG to grab some fucking cash out of gullible morons because the pieces of shit at beamdog picked the rights to the franchise from the gutter
The existence of this trash fanfiction, the fact that this bunch of stupid fucking hacks called it BG and then proceeded injected every single line of dialogue with their political talking points infuriates me to no fucking end, and gullible retards paying actual money for it pisses me off beyond that.
unironically not retro, and reminder that sage exists for a reason.
Don't wait for a sale because you obviously enjoy anal sex, so why not go all the way?
Fucking kill yourselves.

>> No.5513342

>>5513340
>and I forgot to sage
Fuck this shit, fuck this thread and fuck you.

>> No.5513365

>>5513342
It’s just a game. Relax.

>> No.5513370

don't buy anything.
most vidya is shit anyways.

>> No.5513390

>>5513365
>lmao look he cares lmao just like relax lmao I don't take anything seriously lmao

>> No.5513392

>>5513030
Pirate it for BG mod compatibility, and don't bother playing it. It's pretty garbage.

>> No.5513402

>>5513030
Siege of conservative family and traditional values which has made us what we are today, is a poor game.

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5513692

>>5513030
>Saffana cucks my halfling shadow dancer for a blond Scandinavian skald

The irony almost had me thinking this was a parody at first.
Thing is there is a little bit of baldur's gate in there somewhere. Fun loot, nice visuals, neat final boss. But then you find shit like this that reminds you of some of the cancerous writers that needed to have stupid shit in this game.

Take the "crusades" for instance. You are told to go after them because they are causing "migrants" to flood into baldur's gate. Well as it happens, a gang of these shitheads decide to rob someone who HAPPENED to be transporting all your gold. You can then hunt the fuckers down and have mercy or straight up slaughter every single one of them. I'm ok with this, it's dumb but it gives you two options to deal with it without being preachy and money is very easily acquired in this game.

But for the crusades them selves I can't help but think the sole reason they are bad is because they happen to be called crusades. You find out that every person joined Caelar of their own free will in a attempt to storm through hell to free captured relatives and loved ones from demon spawns . Why is this a problem? Why are they raiding villages and raping peasant woman? The bitch was was so charismatic that she gave hobgoblins a sense of camaraderie with humans. So you find out her evil looking second in command is evil . Why can't I tell Caelar? If a bunch of tranny writers didn't have their say, she would of been the MC of her own game. Instead you get a bunch of questions that aren't answered and a confusing plot because they didn't bother to flesh out the very people you are suppose to be fighting.
The lefty shit is petty but the plot holes are in the end what really stop this game from being good. As others have said wait for the sale and or pirate it.

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5513748

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.

5. Siege of motherfucking Dragonspear.

6. >>/vr/thread/5402232#p5408278

>> No.5513845

>>5513030
Download it for free and if you like it, buy it.

>> No.5514037

>>5513748
based

So many fucking hypocrites and cowards in this thread.

>> No.5514171

>>5513748
Absolutely based pasta-anon. Never change.

Also sage.

>> No.5514975

>>5513748
hella based

>> No.5517146

>>5513030
If you REALLY want it, pirate it. It's not even worth your time though, even with social-justice-cleanser mod.

>> No.5517226

>>5513748
VERY BASED, UNDENIABLY REDPILLED

>> No.5517443

>>5517146
>>5517226
Why did you two morons bump this shitty thread? Fucking let it die.

>> No.5517469

bump

>> No.5517480

the encounter design is really bad and assumes you rest after every combat like the fags that designed it, making traversing any area a fucking chore, since maps are also packed with monsters

>> No.5518084

>>5517480
This isn't the case. You should be able to clear each screen without resting or only resting once.

Anyway, Siege of Dragonspear is great. It isn't nearly as good as Baldur's Gate or Baldur's Gate 2, but its one of the better RPGs to come out in the last few years.

>> No.5518159

>>5513340
>>5513748
Always these agenda posts. Welp, now I've bought and 5 star'd it. Congrats.

>> No.5518182

>>5518159
>I suck tranny dick

>> No.5518464

>>5518084
>>5518159
Thank you, both of you, for making me finally realize that I have no reasons left to waste my time on this board or this site anymore. That feels great.
I hope you enjoy your game anon. After all, even drooling morons and tranny freaks have a right to a bit of happiness before inevitably killing themselves. Have fun.

>> No.5519262

>>5518464
godspeed anon

>> No.5520028

>>5518464
You know you can hide threads you don't like, right?

>> No.5520841

>>5513340
what a stable well-adjusted human being.

It's a mediocre expansion OP, doesn't add much of importance, fills in some plot holes that nobody ever really asked to be filled. Get it if you are really desperate for a few more hours of BG, a lot of favorite characters come back and voiced by their original VOs in almost all cases. David Warner even reprises Irenicus but you can really tell it was recorded like 20 years after the original and the character is kind of clumsily shoehorned in. Nothing really standout in the quests or encounters, it's a way to kill about 8-10 hours if you've got no better CRPGs still to play.

>> No.5520849

>>5513340
Absolutely based and redpilled. I'm glad I don't give a shit about BG.

>> No.5520851

>>5518464
see a therapist already, yikes.

>> No.5520871

>>5520841
What a boring, safe and hypocritical opinion.

>> No.5520930

I starded playing this for the first time. I understand that the xp cap is 500000, but litteraly everything I encoutered give me piss poor xp.
The green dragon was a complete letdown, no magic resistance and died in less than 5 round to a four men party.
Beamdog a shit. Dogshit!

>> No.5521143

Just pirate it. While you're at it, strip out and mine any new assets that it added (even though a lot of them were looted from IWD and Torment anyway) and use them for a vastly superior mod of your own. Afterwards, delete the expansion and never think about it every again.

Ya know what? /VR/ Baldur's Gate mod thread, when?

>> No.5521156

>>5521143
So, whose gonna lead the project then? Whose gonna set up a discord, a thread, whatever? The idea is cool, but it wouldn't create itself. You'd need a bunch of people willing to put aside time to make something for free. SoD was shit, but people got paid to make it (which makes that even worse...)