Anyone else share my affliction? Ever since the earliest BG1 and 2 days, I have never had an easy time settling on a character in these games.
It wasn't so bad in BG1, I didn't know much back then, I just made a ranger (admittedly made 3 before I could settle on a race) and played through the game.
Bg2 was a whole other story. By then I was an informed and highly knowledgeable power gamer. I think I made every class at one point or another and played through the same first few zones so many times. The funny part is just out of habit I do things in the same order every time regardless of class.
In high school when I was bored in class, I would doodle charts comparing the pro's and cons of all the different classes and try and give them everall scores to help me decide which I liked most (I'm sure you can tell now that I got all the ladies... lol)
Pretty much the only thing I know I am not interested in is a divine caster. I want a fighter/mage but I also want a ranger and paladin, and a bit of a thief... lol
Eventually I just played the game through with my ranger from BG1. Subsequent replays included multiple aborted runs with Paladins, fighter/mage, sorcerer, ranger/cleric, and monk. I actually went back to Bg2 a few years ago and completed SoA (not ToB though) with a fighter/thief and I think I enjoyed that the most, it was like an upgraded ranger!
So here I am with BG EE, and back to my same old habits. It makes no sense, I did this endlessly 10+ years ago and I know nearly every class and kit stat by memory. I should know by now. To attempt to alleviate this, I played a fighter/mage/thief for a few levels, then I decided I wanted to try an evil run, so I restarted as an evil F/M/T. Then I got the NPC's I wanted and decided F/M/T was too much multi, so I made a Fighter/Mage.
Now it seems in addition to my class conundrums, I now cant decide between good, evil, or neutral (if that even really works...).... one more thing to endlessly restart the game and keep repeating the same areas pre-nashkel mines, again and again and again....
share your stories if you feel my pain!
It wasn't so bad in BG1, I didn't know much back then, I just made a ranger (admittedly made 3 before I could settle on a race) and played through the game.
Bg2 was a whole other story. By then I was an informed and highly knowledgeable power gamer. I think I made every class at one point or another and played through the same first few zones so many times. The funny part is just out of habit I do things in the same order every time regardless of class.
In high school when I was bored in class, I would doodle charts comparing the pro's and cons of all the different classes and try and give them everall scores to help me decide which I liked most (I'm sure you can tell now that I got all the ladies... lol)
Pretty much the only thing I know I am not interested in is a divine caster. I want a fighter/mage but I also want a ranger and paladin, and a bit of a thief... lol
Eventually I just played the game through with my ranger from BG1. Subsequent replays included multiple aborted runs with Paladins, fighter/mage, sorcerer, ranger/cleric, and monk. I actually went back to Bg2 a few years ago and completed SoA (not ToB though) with a fighter/thief and I think I enjoyed that the most, it was like an upgraded ranger!
So here I am with BG EE, and back to my same old habits. It makes no sense, I did this endlessly 10+ years ago and I know nearly every class and kit stat by memory. I should know by now. To attempt to alleviate this, I played a fighter/mage/thief for a few levels, then I decided I wanted to try an evil run, so I restarted as an evil F/M/T. Then I got the NPC's I wanted and decided F/M/T was too much multi, so I made a Fighter/Mage.
Now it seems in addition to my class conundrums, I now cant decide between good, evil, or neutral (if that even really works...).... one more thing to endlessly restart the game and keep repeating the same areas pre-nashkel mines, again and again and again....
share your stories if you feel my pain!
