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07/04/11(Mon)04:10 No.27390146>>27389962
BG2 with difficulty mods installed.
I knew something was up when, in the first dungeon, I faced down a fallen deva summoned by a 22nd level priest. When that Deva was joined by a golem and a glabrezu demon, along with a 10+ level fighter and monk, I knew I was entering a different realm of gaming entirely: The Reload Zone. Basically, the key to any battle depends on how many times you have the patience to reload it. Develop all the special techniques you want, if your Hold Person is saved against or your opponent critically backstabs you for 126 damage, there's not much you can do. So the game becomes less about "accomplishing goals" and "solving problems" than it does about "trying minor variations of the same strategy for a 20 minute battle over and over for the next six hours and hoping a spell that is saved against 95% of the time manages to go through." I eventually beat all the creatures the insane level designer threw at me in the FIRST FUCKING DUNGEON by luring them out one by one and letting them go toe to toe with the fire and ice salamanders my Improved Summons were pulling down. Did you know that those salamanders have +3 or better halberds? A useful fact when you face a demon with +2 and lower immunities while the best you have is a +1 long sword!
But it wasn't this first dungeon that defeated me, oh no. A sane man would have uninstalled at the first sight of the deva. I kept going until I got my ass handed to me by some nobody adventuring party in the top of an inn in the first city area, and then again when I snuck into the back of the Copper Coronet and the handful of guards had been changed to 12 or so high level mages chaining Stoneskin, Minor Spell Immunity and Fireshield just before casting Confusion and Summon Phase Spiders. I didn't even have access to Breach! |
