Best Moments in BG/BG2?

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For me, my first dragon encounter. The sheer size and majesty of
Firkraag was awesome, but he made a bad mistake. He dismissed me far
too easily. I swore revenge. I returned much better prepared and able
to take him on, and after a long and titanic battle, he finally fell -
although he had taken out 4 of my comrades. The feeling of
satisfaction was immense.

Even this was surpassed when, after many hours discovering the horrors
of Watcher's Keep, I came up the Demogorgon's lair. The battle that
followed was even more epic than the dragonslaying. When he finally
fell, I breathed a large sigh of relief.

Those two stand out as great moments for me whilst playing BG2 - and
of course the end bosses! Anyone got any others?

 

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"Sierro" <x@y.z> wrote in message
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> For me, my first dragon encounter. The sheer size and majesty of
> Firkraag was awesome, but he made a bad mistake. He dismissed me far
> too easily. I swore revenge. I returned much better prepared and able
> to take him on, and after a long and titanic battle, he finally fell -
> although he had taken out 4 of my comrades. The feeling of
> satisfaction was immense.
>
> Even this was surpassed when, after many hours discovering the horrors
> of Watcher's Keep, I came up the Demogorgon's lair. The battle that
> followed was even more epic than the dragonslaying. When he finally
> fell, I breathed a large sigh of relief.

I've never fought the demogorgan - I think I'll give it a shot this game.

> Those two stand out as great moments for me whilst playing BG2 - and
> of course the end bosses! Anyone got any others?

BG1 - hmm, I think it's probably the fight with the first mage.
he's killed me quite a few times.

BG2 - Firkraag of course was nice - actually my favorite Firekraag
moment is once when I spent a good amount of time buffing my
group up before the fight but forgot the finishing touch - a protection
from fire spell on my bard. The fight lasted about 3 seconds, but it's
still funny to me. Talk about really being dismissed too easily. I
suppose my favorite was when I first killed a dragon - the shadow
dragon. I had very little idea what I was doing and the group took a
lot of damage. Everyone died except for my character and Minsc - I
was very nervous about then having to face the dreaded "Shade Lord".
Yeah, right. That was a relief.

Also, the first time I beat the Tactics final sequence of battles was
particularly memorable. My puter crashed at the very moment I
killed Irenicus - I thought it might be a scripted event as it didn't
really crash, it just froze, as he went "aargh!" -an autosave would
be so nice. I feared I had somehow performed an "illegal operation"
by killing him.

 

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"Sierro" <x@y.z> schreef in bericht
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> For me, my first dragon encounter. The sheer size and majesty of
> Firkraag was awesome, but he made a bad mistake. He dismissed me far
> too easily. I swore revenge. I returned much better prepared and able
> to take him on, and after a long and titanic battle, he finally fell -
> although he had taken out 4 of my comrades. The feeling of
> satisfaction was immense.
>
> Even this was surpassed when, after many hours discovering the horrors
> of Watcher's Keep, I came up the Demogorgon's lair. The battle that
> followed was even more epic than the dragonslaying. When he finally
> fell, I breathed a large sigh of relief.
>
> Those two stand out as great moments for me whilst playing BG2 - and
> of course the end bosses! Anyone got any others?

The time I discovered that killing Mad Arcane did as much exp as killing the
Mirrorshade woman: 2000 xp.
Mwuahahahahaha

 

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Sierro <x@y.z> wrote in message news:<kukt90pn54j0elbmnijrh80hnn8on5gd6e@4ax.com>...
> For me, my first dragon encounter. The sheer size and majesty of
> Firkraag was awesome, but he made a bad mistake. He dismissed me far
> too easily. I swore revenge. I returned much better prepared and able
> to take him on, and after a long and titanic battle, he finally fell -
> although he had taken out 4 of my comrades. The feeling of
> satisfaction was immense.
>
> Even this was surpassed when, after many hours discovering the horrors
> of Watcher's Keep, I came up the Demogorgon's lair. The battle that
> followed was even more epic than the dragonslaying. When he finally
> fell, I breathed a large sigh of relief.
>
> Those two stand out as great moments for me whilst playing BG2 - and
> of course the end bosses! Anyone got any others?

Rescuing Dynaheir from the Gnolls was always my favorite BG/BG2
moment. I always do that right after picking up Jaheira and Khalid.
Its a good heroes quest, especially at low level. You acquire a new
friend. In conjunction with that quest I usually level up to 2nd
level in the fighter class (of my fighter/mage/thief multi-class) and
finally have more than 10-11 hp. Then its off to Nashkel.

It's especially memorable because there is a mountain bear that can
kill any party member in 1 or 2 blows at that stage, and I often meet
random Gnolls and sometimes an additional mountain bear in the
wilderness, on top of it all. The mountain bear battles are very
exciting at low level, especially if its a random encounter and you
have some Gnolls spawn in the middle of it.

I think my second most memorable moment meeting Drizzt in BG2,
probably because of the locale and timing. You are taking a peaceful
stroll through the forests of Amn, and still coming down from the
underdark adrenaline rush.

P.

 

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"Sierro" <x@y.z> wrote in message
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RCV: First time I stumbled on Nimbul after the Naskell mine was fun,
what with a missile weapon heavy party.... I had people hiding in the
graveyard before I took him out. lafffs

Or meeting up with the female assassins in the southern area, whom I
named the "Four Amazons"! Man they were tough at first, but wonderful
loot.....

In BG 2 again its the "stumble in on them battles" - that are easy once
you know where they are, but very challenging the first time, Mencar
Pebblecrusher and crew in the promenade inn, or those ones in the sub-temple
sewers.

Of course, one thing that should never happen twice, but that often
happens once, is finding yourslef facing something your better party members
can't touch, through lack of proper weapons/ammo. First time I did Nalia's
keep [I went there as quickly as possible] I found myself facing the Iron
Golem without ONE +3 weapon in the party! Not knowing that I could have
gotten a couple from that room, and having not done the CC basement, I was
forced to go back to town, buy a scroll of enchanted weapon and learn that.
Ofcourse NOW I know where everything is, but it never occured to me, for
example, that Bernard would sell different stuff after clearing the CC than
before..... 🙂

Rich

Rich

 

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On Mon, 10 May 2004 07:07:47 GMT, "kevin"
<khiggins2@nyukhouston.rr.com> wrote:

>I've never fought the demogorgan - I think I'll give it a shot this game.

Make sure you install the improved version - although he's still too
easy.

 

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On Mon, 10 May 2004 02:03:27 +0100, Sierro <x@y.z> wrote:

>For me, my first dragon encounter. The sheer size and majesty of
>Firkraag was awesome, but he made a bad mistake. He dismissed me far
>too easily. I swore revenge. I returned much better prepared and able
>to take him on, and after a long and titanic battle, he finally fell -
>although he had taken out 4 of my comrades. The feeling of
>satisfaction was immense.
>
>Even this was surpassed when, after many hours discovering the horrors
>of Watcher's Keep, I came up the Demogorgon's lair. The battle that
>followed was even more epic than the dragonslaying. When he finally
>fell, I breathed a large sigh of relief.
>
>Those two stand out as great moments for me whilst playing BG2 - and
>of course the end bosses! Anyone got any others?

I can still remember lots of moments from BG:

- The first time Minsc came out with "buttkicking for goodness!" I nearly
fell off my chair

- Ditto with a lot of the lines from Alora

- Feeling tremendously guilty about refusing to help the farmer on the
ankheg map, to the extent that I reloaded the game

- Ditto about killing Tamoko in the undercity

- The massive rush when I finally managed to kill Sarevok without excess
cheese -- best boss fight I've ever had

Strangely, I don't really remember that many moments from BG2, even though
that was arguably a higher-quality game.


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