Yes, it's been 5 years already since we went to the store and, hands trembling, picked up our copy of BG2 from the store shelves....they said it would be even better than BG1, they said it'd feature 100+ hours of gameplay, they said it'd be the best CRPG ever....and they were right.


Say what you like, but BG2 's impact on the gaming market was immense. Suddenly there was this game that had a little bit for everyone, and a LOT of those little bits too. Great storyline, vivid NPC's (for that time), few bugs (in a game that huge), beautiful artwork, extreme amount of gameplay hours, and low sys reqs.

All the stuff that came after BG2 was good, sometimes even great, but it wasn't BG2. NWN was a nice try, but not quite BG2.

Erh, anyway, just wanted to create this thread as a some sort of lame-assed tribute thing. I'm sure most (all?) of us can relate to what i'm saying here, and that when you think of BG2 you smile. Like a retard. But a smile nonetheless.

Btw, Gamebanshee's anniversary interview is what inspired me to write this crap (yeah, I'm not THAT fanatic that I keep track of its anniversaries myself ), so read the thing:

http://www.gamebanshee.com/interviews/b ... y.php#null

And to conclude: Firkraag! W00t!

Only 5 years?

I first saw (and came to know of it) when i went round my neighbors house and saw him playing it on his laptop. He was telling me about how much better and smarter it was that BG1. But all he seemed to be doing while we were talking was trying to defeat a big-off giant dragon.

Weeks later, he passed the game onto me. It was a Special Edition box, so i gave the t-shirt to my brother, which has now been passed on to my cousin.

On a related note, I can't wait for Dragon Age, BGII's "spiritual" sequel.

Definitely Arathorn...for everyone not in the know:

http://www.bioware.com/games/dragon_age/


And I forgot how I exactly came to know off BG2...I do remember the moment I bought it tho.

I was playing Diablo II, and someone commented that if I liked that, I would definately like BGII and never look back on DII once I played that. He was right.