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Posted November 06, 2015
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Posted November 06, 2015
At the $7 sale price I think they're worth it. Original price? Nah.
Posted November 06, 2015
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gamesfreak64: i bought them when they arrived cause i was curious to see what it would look like, funny thing is, i still need to play them, i am mainly buying games now :D and play them later, still have lots of games to play from the last fall/winter and insomnia sales
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JiminyJickers: My backlog has build up so much over the last year. I have bought so many games that I haven't even played yet. It is an addiction, haha.

I need to take a few years off living in the mountains so that I can finish my backlog without pesky new games coming out, haha.
same here.... to bad i am fraid of hights and cold weather is not very good for my health, but i could also spend 3 years in a cabin, and then play all the games i bought, but still havent played.

i guess i also have a buy first play later addiction. :D
but this goes for all games wherever i buy them same for retail cd/dvd, loads still to play
even with a walkthrough it would take me 4-5 years maybe more if i take breaks between gamingsessions, then it might be 8-10 years :D before i finished all the new games i have.

funny thing is: i am still looking for more new games and more new 'old' games, so its like more more more
for games.
Post edited November 06, 2015 by gamesfreak64
Posted November 06, 2015
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Arinielle: *Enhanced
Holy crap that misspelling...

http://www.gog.com/promo/fall_sale_dd_remade_bundle_51115

Just to have the link right there if need be... I have the older versions but wasn't sure if this bundle was worth it. Would like some help in deciding if y'all please.

And if you could, please explain as to why it is and isn't worth it?
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monkeydelarge: On sale, yes. Full price, no.
Yep. That's one thing I made sure of. I didn't see why full price was so...high.. for what it is. On sale, it was a bit more to my liking and I have the extra bit of money to spend for it. Not something I have often and I'm pretty damn strict about what games I get for my money. But every now and then I can afford to do something a little beyond my strictness.

I'm honestly have a bit of a weakness for Baldur's Gate since I used to have to share a computer with my younger sisters back in the day so we would play the same save files and crowd around the one currently allowed to play for a few minutes before the next sister in line got a turn.

So just some sentimental stuff. I already got the older games a while back on GOG and had been up in the air for some time about getting these enhanced editions.
Posted November 06, 2015
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timppu: I played the original Baldur's Gate 1-2 and Icewind Dale (GOG versions) vanilla, no issue there. So it isn't a requirement to mod them or anything, you can also enjoy them vanilla (I usually like to play my games vanilla, at least the first time, unless there are some game-breaking bugs). The only thing I didn't like was the journal (quest log) on BG1 and IWD, the BG2 quest log is better (easier to tell which quests you've already finished and what to do next).

As already pointed out, the enhanced editions also use your CPU power in a saner way. This might be mainly an issue for laptop gamers where heat problems may occur (or alternatively you'll hear your laptop fans roar at full speed all the time) if the game tries to use CPU core at 100% all the time (on newer multicore laptops it is normally 50% though, due to HyperThreading I presume). And, if this becomes a problem (as it occasionally did to me on a T400 laptop), the workaround is to select a power profile in Windows where CPU usage is restricted to low, when playing the game. Then the game can't steal excessive amount of CPU cycles for no good reason.
Just to chime in, haven't played the EE versions, but I surely noticed the CPU usage on my laptop. Someone made a mod if you have both BG1 and 2 to run BG1 on BG2's engine which is more CPU friendly.
Basically before I ran that I made a separate power profile on my laptop which would restrict my CPU to 30% of it's capacity, BG ran fine even that low, everything else would start to be slow as molasses if I forgot to switch power profile back. Basically the game just ran as it could without waiting for a set amount of ms to have passed (hey checking if the time has passed and wait uses resources we might not've had back then)

Now a days games expect there to be resources free. Whether it uses it depends. Also something like turning off VSync can cause the same behaviour in systems. It might speed up your experience with a low spec computer at the cost of screen tearing, but at the same time, it won't nescesarily throttle itself down to your monitor's framerate.
And then there's games which still don't care. It was the last straw which made me drop Transistor.
Posted November 06, 2015
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JiminyJickers: My backlog has build up so much over the last year. I have bought so many games that I haven't even played yet. It is an addiction, haha.

I need to take a few years off living in the mountains so that I can finish my backlog without pesky new games coming out, haha.
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gamesfreak64: same here.... to bad i am fraid of hights and cold weather is not very good for my health, but i could also spend 3 years in a cabin, and then play all the games i bought, but still havent played.

i guess i also have a buy first play later addiction. :D
but this goes for all games wherever i buy them same for retail cd/dvd, loads still to play
even with a walkthrough it would take me 4-5 years maybe more if i take breaks between gamingsessions, then it might be 8-10 years :D before i finished all the new games i have.

funny thing is: i am still looking for more new games and more new 'old' games, so its like more more more
for games.
Feed the addiction, haha. I'm the same, want more games now!! :)
Posted November 06, 2015
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mindblast: If you own the originals, i would say not to go crazy about those "enhanced editions".
Can we say the same about the Fallout series ?
Post edited November 06, 2015 by Painted_Doll
Posted November 06, 2015
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Fairfox: Thanks for the info, my Finnish Friend (FF)! Perhaps I'll wait until Christmas and see if they appear in a sale again, then.
If you own the originals, give it a test spin. Play 30 minutes and you'll know if you like it or not.


P.S. I'm hoping to start IWD:EE tonight for the first time! I'm stoked. Yay for native Linux support!
Post edited November 06, 2015 by Tallima
Posted November 06, 2015
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Painted_Doll: Can we say the same about the Fallout series ?
There are no enhanced editions of the Fallout series.
Posted November 07, 2015
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Painted_Doll: Can we say the same about the Fallout series ?
Fallout does not have Enhanced Edition, but it does not really need it. Now, i'm guessing that it was updated somewhat recently, as it's having widescreen support directly from the game settings. You also can play it windowed, there's no need for mods or stuff like that with Fallout. Baldur's Gate was problematic on modern monitors, but Fallout is good as it is.
Posted November 07, 2015
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Painted_Doll: Can we say the same about the Fallout series ?
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mindblast: Fallout does not have Enhanced Edition, but it does not really need it. Now, i'm guessing that it was updated somewhat recently, as it's having widescreen support directly from the game settings. You also can play it windowed, there's no need for mods or stuff like that with Fallout. Baldur's Gate was problematic on modern monitors, but Fallout is good as it is.
Lets not speak to soon there, I am sure Beamdog could add couple of new characters in there and spank it out for £20 or so.
Posted November 07, 2015
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mindblast: Fallout does not have Enhanced Edition, but it does not really need it. Now, i'm guessing that it was updated somewhat recently, as it's having widescreen support directly from the game settings. You also can play it windowed, there's no need for mods or stuff like that with Fallout. Baldur's Gate was problematic on modern monitors, but Fallout is good as it is.
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nightcraw1er.488: Lets not speak to soon there, I am sure Beamdog could add couple of new characters in there and spank it out for £20 or so.
If Beamdog ported Fallout & Fallout 2 to Linux, and updated the interface to a scalable, modern interface, they can have my money. Not going to happen now that Bethesda owns the IP though.
Posted November 07, 2015
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nightcraw1er.488: Lets not speak to soon there, I am sure Beamdog could add couple of new characters in there and spank it out for £20 or so.
Well, there are not so many good Fallout mods out there, so you don't expect them to mod the games by themselves, that would be crazy.
Posted November 07, 2015
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Fairfox: Thanks for the info, my Finnish Friend (FF)! Perhaps I'll wait until Christmas and see if they appear in a sale again, then.
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Tallima: If you own the originals, give it a test spin. Play 30 minutes and you'll know if you like it or not.

P.S. I'm hoping to start IWD:EE tonight for the first time! I'm stoked. Yay for native Linux support!
i have IWD EE aswell, and i only started it to see if it ran properly on my win7, but still havent played it so i dont know what it will be like.

As for fallout classics, with the new settings i guess you can try to run fallout windowed, this might make the graphics look better casue they will be somewhat smaller, i run some dosbox games in a smaller window if the graphics are to crude, this way it will be smaller but the graphics will look better.
Posted November 07, 2015
I'm a sucker for a creative writing exercise, so I spent something like 3 hours making my characters and writing their bios. After which, I went to bed. :) Character creation is usually one of my favorite parts of RPGs like these.

I played IWD several years ago, but never got too far. I enjoyed it and was surprised by how well it put together action and RPG elements. I'm hoping for some good fun in the coming weeks to months!
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