{"id":20,"date":"2012-05-10T20:04:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T20:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joystuckinthepast.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2024-06-26T18:23:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T18:23:12","slug":"revisiting-baldurs-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/10\/revisiting-baldurs-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Baldurs Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dndbeyond.com\/posts\/1556-baldurs-gate-a-dark-tour-through-its-dangerous\">Baldurs Gate Enhanced Edition<\/a> was announced, Alzo mentioned he had never played Baldurs Gate before. Three others and I got together, gathered our party and ventured forth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joystuckinthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BaldursGateTitle.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joystuckinthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BaldursGateTitle.png\" alt=\"Title Screen\" title=\"Baldurs Gate Title\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday was found to be the best night for everyone being available, with occasional sessions should everyone be available.<\/p>\n<p>We took a party of 5 and deliberately left one space so we could pick up Minsc when we encountered him (Alzo didn&#8217;t really get why at first having not played it, all those who had played it before insisted on his inclusion).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joystuckinthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BaldursGateCharacters.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joystuckinthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BaldursGateCharacters.png\" alt=\"Baldurs Gate Characters\" title=\"Baldurs Gate Characters\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also took a good party and decided not to go on a loot fest in peoples houses or to use out of character knowledge (with a couple of exceptions where otherwise we would have been going in circles or were close to midnight so wanted to finish something we have stuck to this).<\/p>\n<p>It did take a while of fiddling with a number of different services before we found one which worked with Baldurs Gate &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunngle.net\/\">Tunngle<\/a>. We also needed to get everyone a headset or microphone\/speakers and used <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/\">Steam<\/a> to chat in game. The other expense was that two players were on the same network and their router didn&#8217;t seem to support that &#8211; buying a new one fixed the issue.<\/p>\n<p>We have been having a grand old time and are hoping to complete the game before the Enhanced Edition is released.<\/p>\n<p>We unfortunately haven&#8217;t been recording many screenshots or audio\/video of the game but we do have some showing:<\/p>\n<p>The Genocide of the Xvart village<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joystuckinthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BaldursGateXvartSlaughter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joystuckinthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BaldursGateXvartSlaughter.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Baldurs Gate Xvart Slaughter\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our cleric reaching a level which allowed three sets of skeletons to be summoned (we can now block more narrow tunnels than ever before)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joystuckinthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BaldursGateSkeletons.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joystuckinthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BaldursGateSkeletons.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Baldurs Gate Skeletons\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A player experimenting with a high quality mod<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joystuckinthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BaldursGateHighRes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joystuckinthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BaldursGateHighRes.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Baldurs Gate High Res\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you introduced any n00bs to a 10+ year old game in multi-player? More importantly, how much are you looking forward to the Baldurs Gate Enhanced Edition?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Baldurs Gate Enhanced Edition was announced, Alzo mentioned he had never played Baldurs Gate before. Three others and I got together, gathered our party and ventured forth. Tuesday was found to be the best night for everyone being available, with occasional sessions should everyone be available. We took a party of 5 and deliberately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,8],"tags":[21,23,109,157,168],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-pc-games","category-pc-rpg","tag-baldurs-gate","tag-bgee","tag-minsc","tag-steam","tag-tunngle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joystuckinthepast.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}