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[ronin]

Hello, new moderator here and thought I would start something that can be fun and bring back alot of memories. This topic doesn't necessarily need to be for BG1 and BG2 it can be for anything.

I saw a thread like this on another forum at another community and thought it would be fun here. The other thread was updated about 1 time a week and I think we, at SHS, can do better than that.

So, without further adiu, I present you "Do you remeber? I do"

Do you remember when gibberlings were a foe to be reconed with?
Do you remember the first time you used the wand of lightning in a small area and it killed your whole party?
Do you remember the first time your main tank was dire charmed and killed your whole party?

I do

I will keep my post short so other people have an opportunity to post.

viel spass!!!

[Kellen]

I do remember the Lightning Wand. About Gibberlings, not really. How about Kobolds. And the tank, didn't kill me, but he was sure annoying.

Do you remember a ten minute duel between you and the Candlekeep assassin because neither of you could hit the other?

Do you remember being so excited when you killed Skie, because you got a MAGIC weapon?

Do you remember that feeling of Satisfaction as you watched the end movie?

Edited by Kael, 10 March 2007 - 12:51 PM.

[Azazello]

Do you remember...

- the wonder of having party members, like when you let Montaron and Xzar join up?

- that moment (BG1 or BG2) when you realized how funny and crazy Minsc was?

- the first time when a party member, who you had bonded with (like Imoen), died?!!!

- the first time when you first heard Xzar's line (critical hit sound?): Ha-ha-ha, I have become Death, Destroyer of Worlds!

- the wonder of installing your first mod, and looking for the changes it made?

- reading the BG1 load screen hint, 'be sure to use magic weapons as normal ones can break' a hundred times before realizing - DUH!

- when you realized that installing the MegaInstall "nearly automatically" still takes the same amount of time as when you did it manually 3 or 4 years ago??!! (More mods added, of course.)

Edited by Azazello, 12 March 2007 - 03:15 PM.

[berelinde]

Do you remember

- when it used to take you a couple of days of playing just to get out of Chateau Irenicus?

[IronOx]

Aaah, great memories.

Do you remember when Minsc and Edwin started bash each others' brains in for the first time?

Do you remember when Neeber/Noober first approached you?

Do you remember when you first entered the awesome city that is Baldur's Gate?

On all three, I most certainly do. I screamed at the first, laughed at the second and stared at the third.

[berelinde]

- the wonder of installing your first mod, and looking for the changes it made?

Uh, yeah. I trashed my installation doing it. How was I supposed to know I wasn't supposed to have the game on at the time?

[Kellen]

- the wonder of installing your first mod, and looking for the changes it made?

Uh, yeah. I trashed my installation doing it. How was I supposed to know I wasn't supposed to have the game on at the time?

Priceless. Um yeah.

Do you remember watching the intros for the first time.

[Grunker]

Do you remember - the first time you heard Sarevoks voice?

Do you remember - the first time you heard Gorion say "You're a fool if you believe I would trust your benevolence. Step aside and you and your lackeys will be unhurt," and how impressed you were?

Do you remember - the endless puzzles of Durlag's Tower, and the endless nights trying to solve them?

Do you remember - feeling sorry for Prism?

Do you remember - the feeling of frustration when being sent to ice prison by Shandalar for the first time?

Do you remember - the feeling of satisfaction when you finally reached the top of The Iron Throne, and beat Cloudwulfe and his cohorts?

I do.

Edited by Grunker, 10 March 2007 - 05:18 PM.

[Yovaneth]

Even more primeval :looking for a decent adventure game, finding Baldur's Gate on the remaindered (i.e. cheap) shelf in the local games shop, thinking 'for £10 I can't really go wrong', seeing Candlekeep come up on the screen and getting hit with a sudden

'YES!! This is IT!! I've been waiting for a game like this for YEARS!!!"

And that was it: six years later I'm still caught; hook, line and sinker.

-Y-

Ah! For non-British members; 'hook, line and sinker' is an expression that comes from fishing and means that you (the fish) have taken the bait and are well and truly caught on the fisherman's line.

[Kellen]

Though I'm not British I have heard the expression

Do you remember the feeling of satisfaction when you leveled up?

Do you remember wishing this NPC was romanceable? (Some NPCs don't have it yet but...)

Do you remember the first time you beat the game and the immense feeling of pride, satisfaction, and gratitude?

[SConrad]

Do you remember - the first time you heard Gorion say "You're a fool if you believe I would trust your benevolence. Step aside and you and your lackeys will be unhurt," and how impressed you were?

Ooooooh, yes.

Do you remember the first time you were freaked out by seeing a dragon in BGII (in my case; Firkraag)?

Do you remember getting slaughtered in Chateau Irenicus after installing Tactics for the first time?

Do you remember hearing Irenicus' dialogue with Ellesime in Suldanesselar?

Spoiler

("I do not remember your love, Ellesime. I have tried to. I have tried to recreate it, to spark it anew in my memory. But it is gone... a hollow, dead thing. For years, I clung to the memory of it. Then the memory of the memory. And then nothing. The Seldarine took that from me, too. I look upon you and I feel nothing. I remember nothing but you turning your back on me, along with all the others. Once my thirst for power was everything. And now I hunger only for revenge. And... I... WILL... HAVE IT!!")

Do you remember reading the ToB epilogues for the first time, and finding out what was going to happen to your party members?

I do.

[Azkyroth]

-Do you remember when your playing experience in a game with an actual story and combat that required more than just meth-aided reflexes first brought home to you that the cheat-first-ask-questions-later approach you unfortunately absorbed from your professional slacker cousin who, thanks to your parents' almost superstitious bias against television and things resembling a television, was the first to introduce you to post-486 video games, actually did undermine your enjoyment (probably not, actually, but it's a major reason why I tend to disregard the Cleric/Ranger combination as a decent class and prefer not to discuss sizable parts of my initial playing experience)?
-Do you remember first realizing how delightfully effective ranged weapons were?
-Do you remember pounding the desk in incredulous irritation at discovering the 18 STR requirement for BG2 composite bows otherwise identical to the ones your ranger had been using for the entire frickin' first game?
-Do you remember first noticing that the clock didn't advance at all on your voyage to the Isle in the Trackless Sea?
-Do you remember rolling up your first character with maximal key stats, without cheating?
-Do you remember when that flimsy frickin' tagboard packaging of your BG1 cds disintegrated?

*thinks*

[Azazello]

^^ sweet memories!

[Narm]

Haha, I remember the 1st time a gibberling chase me, I was running the hell out of my life. lol

I die the 1st time.

[Kaeloree]

Awesome thread!

Do you remember...

- the shock you felt after Imoen was first kidnapped?

- wishing you could just shoot Elhan with a crossbow bolt and be done with it?

- being freaked out when Jaheira started pouring her feelings out to you after you'd paid her token kindness?

- wishing you could tell Aerie to just get over it already?

[Riviera]

Do you remember...

- Installing TotSC and being excited because, finally, you can see the cows?

- Being amused and/or stunned when a party member (or you) gets hit by lightening out of the blue?

- The first wild surge that dropped a cow on your party? (Mine wiped the entire party out.)

- The first time you saw the dragon cutscene in Cloakwood?

- The first time your PC died, and the 'disintegrating' cutscene played?

[ronin]

- Did you remember to "Gather your party before venturing forth"

[Ilmatar]

Do you remember - the first time you heard Gorion say "You're a fool if you believe I would trust your benevolence. Step aside and you and your lackeys will be unhurt," and how impressed you were?

Ooooooh, yes.

Oh my god yes!

-Do you remember when you finally got Baldur's Gate 2 after a looooong wait, and after installing it for the very first time you sat there playing until the morning post came?

-Do you remember the rage when you realized that those weren't the real Gorion and Elminster, but doppelgangers?

-Do you remember when you were trying to get to Friendly Arm Inn with Imoen, and a freaking wolf attacked you, and after getting killed you finally realized that one runs away from the wolf and the other one shoots it with a bow?

-Do you remember when you remembered that moment, when in BG2 your dual-wielder-hack-n-slash-hero chopped a [instert monster here] to ten pieces in one hit?

I sure do.

Edited by Ilmatar, 11 March 2007 - 04:07 AM.

[berelinde]

- Being amused and/or stunned when a party member (or you) gets hit by lightening out of the blue?

I'm still amused by that!

[MorningGlory]

In BG1, the first time you died and you stared at the screen thinking, 'What do I do now???'

Again with the original 5-disk version of BG1, being annoyed that every area seemed to require you to switch out the disk as prompted, then realizing it was lost in the stuff around you because you had failed to put it back the time before?

Also in BG1, the little reminder that appeared between area loads that reminded you to eat as they didn't want to 'lose' any dedicated players?

Remember asking yourself what the heck was the difference between a 'diseased gibberling' and a regular gibberling?

Remember your first Boots of Speed?