what have beamdog done to this game?

[rubyismycat]

The game now looks aweful fussy character moddelling the new cutscenes are embarressing and the new let me hold your hand because your a halfwit difficulty setting totally go against the spirit and POINT of the game they have ruined this game for me how can i get back the NON BEAMDOG VERSION THAT I BOUGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mike_hanna211]

GOG.com has the originals. Also, you can use the options to set the game to look and feel like the originals.

[rubyismycat]

Thankyou thats not the point i paid for baldurs gate not the beamdog version this sucks

[mike_hanna211]

Originally posted by rubyismycat:

Thankyou thats not the point i paid for baldurs gate not the beamdog version this sucks

Next time, read the game description before buying it. Nobody is going to hold your hand while doing it.

[Tyler Durden]

Don't act like a five year old throwing a fit. Nobody is holding you at gunpoint and forcing you to play this game. This is the age of the internet. You can Google the original to find it if that's what you want to play. Just calm down, geez....

[rubyismycat]

actually i had the baldurs gate games in my collection BEFORE beamdog buggered the up you pompous oaf

[KriKitBoNeZ]

Originally posted by rubyismycat:

actually i had the baldurs gate games in my collection BEFORE beamdog buggered the up you pompous oaf

You have incredible people skills.

[Gustuv Wynd]

First off...make sure you have sprite outlines turned off. I have no clue why they enable that by default and even less than no clue why any one would ever want that turned on. If you do that, and enable the UI scaling for the modern resolution you are likely using, the game will look just like the original...a little better even. Just don't zoom in too far.

I agree about the cut sceens. Though when I modded the original cut scenes back in I found out why they made new ones. The originals will be supper tiny due to the modern resolution. I expected them to be blown up and pixelated, but it was the oposite. They were postage stamps. They could have made new higher resolution scenes that were similar to the original...but my guess is they didn't want to spend time on something most players would just click through anyway. it is still a shame though...I really hope they come back to them some day.

and you can just ignore the story mode...I doubt many people have ever used it. Though if they want to attract today's gamers they can't just force "normal" mode on them. Some wouldn't make it out of Candlekeep.

[Turbo Nozomix]

Originally posted by Gustuv Wynd:

First off...make sure you have sprite outlines turned off. I have no clue why they enable that by default and even less than no clue why any one would ever want that turned on.

I agree that the sprite outlines should be turned off by default. I guess they're for visually impaired people. But that doesn't explain why they're enabled by default. I hope that a patch changes that.

[krashd]

It amazes me that someone with the grammatical grasp of a seven year old even wants to play Baldur's Gate. You do know this is a text-heavy game don't you? You can't just skip the dialogue, kill everything in sight, and then hope you've done enough to achieve the objective.

[Craigcom]

Beamdog broke this game, my favourite class, the monk now cannot use a quarterstaff!!! Every version of D&D I have played allows the Monk class to use a Quarterstaff... Why???!!

[Julius Borisov]

Originally posted by Turbo Nozomix:

Originally posted by Gustuv Wynd:

First off...make sure you have sprite outlines turned off. I have no clue why they enable that by default and even less than no clue why any one would ever want that turned on.

I agree that the sprite outlines should be turned off by default. I guess they're for visually impaired people. But that doesn't explain why they're enabled by default. I hope that a patch changes that.

Actually, yes. With the 2.5 patch they are disabled by default.

[Julius Borisov]

Originally posted by Coxwain:

Beamdog broke this game, my favourite class, the monk now cannot use a quarterstaff!!! Every version of D&D I have played allows the Monk class to use a Quarterstaff... Why???!!

Sorry, who did break it? And break what exactly?
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/50260/monk-and-staves
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/17194/monks-not-able-to-use-two-handed-quarterstaffs

[Julius Borisov]

Originally posted by rubyismycat:

The game now looks aweful fussy character moddelling the new cutscenes are embarressing and the new let me hold your hand because your a halfwit difficulty setting totally go against the spirit and POINT of the game they have ruined this game for me how can i get back the NON BEAMDOG VERSION THAT I BOUGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can disable many options in the game settings.
The LoB difficulty is optional.
You can try this mod for original movies - http://www.shsforums.net/topic/55573-mod-bgee-classic-movies/

[Marcus Butthurticus]

The cinematics are pretty bad to be honest in the game. Beside that it's almost the same olf when one fiddle a bit with graphics.

[Gustuv Wynd]

Originally posted by Julius Borisov:

Originally posted by Turbo Nozomix:

I agree that the sprite outlines should be turned off by default. I guess they're for visually impaired people. But that doesn't explain why they're enabled by default. I hope that a patch changes that.

Actually, yes. With the 2.5 patch they are disabled by default.

Awesome! Thank you!