Poll: Baldur's gate 2 or Dragon Age: Origins?

[Gennadios]

I'm not trying to make DA:O look worse than it is, the mechanics were sound and the story standard Bioware fare before it faceplanted, but most of it's longevity is based off of nostalgia, and if that's what you're after, just go to the source.

I tried Baldurs Gate 2 myself after enjoying dragon age so much, but i couldn't really get myself to finish even the first dungeon. You fight yourself through one half of the entire dungeon, just to find something that you need at the end of the OTHER HALF of the dungeon. I don't know really why i didn't picked it up again and played some more. I really don't have a problem with graphics, i play the original xcom pretty often. Maybe i will try it again sometime.

True, there is backtracking in BG2, but each individual dungeon is self contained and shorter. Once that dungeon finishes it's an accomplishment, you go looking for another one or can end your session for the day. In DA:O, once you're done with one level of a dungeon, there's no sense of accomplishment because eventually you're trained to expect 3-4 more before you accomplish anything resembling a goal, you either press on or you end your session not feeling as if you've accomplished anything.

You wrote that you hadn't finished BG2, It took me a year to finish DA:O, eventually I just burned out and stopped caring, it was months before I picked the game up again to finish. Different preferences, I suppose.

 

[Susurrus]

I'm a bit perplexed about everyone claiming BG's graphics are terrible. First off, there's already a mod that increases resolution (the widescreen mod).

Secondly, one of the beauties of BG is that it really hasn't aged that much. The backgrounds are all static, drawn, pieces of artwork. What little graphics there are are on the creatures, monsters and NPCs, and these are all perfectly adequate for the setting. Sure, it hasn't got 3d explosions, but precisely because of that it hasn't really aged that badly. Try playing a game from 2004, and it looks terrible, but BG1, which was from 1998ish? It still looks good - hand-drawn backgrounds, the HUD, all of it is static art, so graphics simply are not a problem.

 

[The_Lost_King]

Hahahaha. Comparing DAO to BG2 is like comparing Eragon to Lord of the Rings. If you haven't read either of them, guess which one you should read first.

Captcha: book reading. WHAT THE FUCK!?

Uh Eragon because the Lord of the Rings movies are close enough. I have read both series but there is something about writing style of Lord of the Rings that I don't like. It seems a little off. I don't know why. Though the Eragon movie was abhorrent.