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My experience with Baldurs Gate (1998) so far
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Eh they both have pacing issues imo BG1 should went to Baldurs Gate after the mines, the whole bandits in the cloakwood thing drags quite a bit and I think it's really telling that almost everyone skips that part of the story when talking about BG1. If you cut out that chapter and let the big city breathe a little bit more it would've been perfect. BG2 has a way too long intro dungeon that's true but I don't think that being in the big city immediately is wrong because it picks up from where BG1 kinda ends so to me it is more
Intro Area->Small Forest->Small towns->Big City->Intro Dungeon->Big City->Underdark->Hell
Also yeah I feel the same about 3 because I hear stuff like 200h playthrough and I just go "nope"
fair, the spider forest shit was annoyingly long. i didnt mind the bandit camp bits. i liked the cloakwood mines too, really. but the fucking spider and ettercap infested forest you have to wade through to get to it... ugh.
but i also really enjoyed just exploring the mostly empty bits on the side, which were 100% plot-irrelevant little universes in themselves with just a few little quests.
There are a lot of cool things out in the boonies, weird encounters, weird quests, weird items.
I enjoy the side adventures but sometimes you want to get through it faster and that part always drags for me even just splitting it into Bandit Camp->BG->Mine would be much better for pacing imo.
Ehhh you might get to 200 hours if you take your time and check everything. My playthrough looks like it'll be sub 100 hours