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#1 Zyraen

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Posted 13 June 2008 - 12:38 AM

- (after long time clicking Reroll Stats) Arrrgh! That's it, I'm using Ctrl-8 !

- Dang... which Ring is the Ring of Regeneration again?

- Ok, who is the party member wearing the Ring of Human Influence?

- Which mod is causing this stutter bug?

- Sigh.. who to romance...?

- Oh no Level Drain! Should I Reload or Reclicking all my Spellbook spells again?

- (regarding healing potions) to drink or not to drink ? Maybe after the next hit... Argh he DIED!

- Aerie, not again...! Just stop Whining!

- (after completing a ToB massacre) sigh. to Loot or not to Loot (a while later) argh this is taking forever!

- shit I forgot about that trap...!

- If only I had a Fighter-Mage / Fighter-Thief / (insert class / kit / NPC ) here

- Move! Run! Faster! Stupid (foe), why don't you stop attacking my Mage/Thief? Can't you see my Fighter is hitting... NOOO!

- I wonder if this number of Traps is enough.

- Not yet ANOTHER Fed Ex quest... what is the item code for that, I wonder?

- Crap, yet another Dream about Irenicus...

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#2 Eleima

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Posted 13 June 2008 - 12:45 AM

Most of those (say 95% :D I've never had a stutter bug) sound soooooooooo familiar!!!!!! :lol:
Oh, and the ring of regen is ring31... ;)

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#3 Nuuskamuikkunen

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Posted 13 June 2008 - 02:02 AM

"I should restart and play as a <insert class>"
"I should play <insert other IE game> instead"
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#4 Scipio

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Posted 13 June 2008 - 03:11 AM

* New game... Hello, Console -- six pairs of Boots of Speed, please.
* New game... Hello, Shadow Keeper -- today I'll have STR for Imoen, and please get rid of Minsc's bloody useless Beserk ability and replace it with Enrage.
* Right, let's take out these Umber Hulks... No, Aerie, don't run up and punch them! Oh, you're out of bullets...
* Close formation, follow me... No, Aerie! Why are you running into that room full of trolls!
* Right, honey, we'll reload your Quick Spell slots... No, Aerie, don't fireball Jaheira! I didn't see the orange border around the spell slot!
* WHY are you idiots just STANDING there! ... oh, right, switch AI on....
* There, there, my baby, we'll heal you... No, Aerie, don't drink Explosions!
* Yes, dammit, I bloody know I have to bloody gather my bloody party before bloody venturing forth.
* Geez, woman, we're not here to help the less fortunate, we're trying to kill Torgal and save your Dad!
* One day, Imoen, we really ARE going to memorize Comet and Dragon Breath to see how they work.
* One day, Jaheira, we really ARE going to turn you into a bear to see what happens.
* One day, guys, we really ARE going to accept Valen's invitation.
* OK... Mordy Swords, Planetar and Skeleton warriors ready, and... AAARGH! I forgot to use Simulacrum first AGAIN!
* Oops! Sorry, Minsc, that should have been triangular, red, MEDIUM....
* Such nice D'Arnise doggies, such cute names, all with blue circles... OK, Aerie, fireball them!
* One day, just one day, I'm actually going to turn into the Slayer and see what happens.
* Maybe you can come along next time, Mazzy.
* Bloody hell! Swap shields, idiot, you want Balduran, not Harmony!
* Right, you slimy vampires, see how you like this Mace of Disruption! *reload* OK, who's got the bloody Mace of Disruption?
* Damn, that's 2,000 less than Cromwell wants! Ctrl-Space....
* So do I want to fight Sendai properly or... Ah, what the heck, difficulty "Easy"....
* Walk... Ctrl-J... walk... Ctrl-J... decisions, decisions....
* So why did I bother with all these pantaloons when my AC is already better than they can give me?
* Geez, if those pantaloons can give me this cannon, why weren't there 12-bore shotguns in Spellhold?
* One day I really will find out what the hell a Githyanki "paladin slayer" is.
* You know, this Vorpal thing is actually no great shakes and don't really want it, so PLEASE just have it without fighting me! We forgot to memorize any spells!
* Dang! I wanted that troll for the XP but the D'Arnise Guards got it!
* Do I really want to get through just about the whole game without Crom Fayer? Ctrl-Space....
* OK, Aerie, you're a melee fighter now! ...no, no, not with a sling!
* Ah, sweet Aerie, fascinating Jaheira, tormenting Viconia... I really must suggest a Polygamy mod.
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#5 Deathsangel

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Posted 13 June 2008 - 03:16 AM

- (after long time clicking Reroll Stats) Arrrgh! That's it, I'm using Ctrl-8 !

- Dang... which Ring is the Ring of Regeneration again?

- Not yet ANOTHER Fed Ex quest... what is the item code for that, I wonder?


Nope, I don't cheat


- Ok, who is the party member wearing the Ring of Human Influence?

- If only I had a Fighter-Mage / Fighter-Thief / (insert class / kit / NPC ) here

- Which mod is causing this stutter bug?

- (regarding healing potions) to drink or not to drink ? Maybe after the next hit... Argh he DIED!

- Aerie, not again...! Just stop Whining!

- I wonder if this number of Traps is enough.

- Oh no Level Drain! Should I Reload or Reclicking all my Spellbook spells again?


Nope - have it planned (2X)
don't have stutter (no game at all at the moment)
drink quick enough
than don't take Aerie
:huh: (what do you mean?)
that is why some people rest


- Sigh.. who to romance...?

- (after completing a ToB massacre) sigh. to Loot or not to Loot (a while later) argh this is taking forever!

- shit I forgot about that trap...!

- Move! Run! Faster! Stupid (foe), why don't you stop attacking my Mage/Thief? Can't you see my Fighter is hitting... NOOO!

- Crap, yet another Dream about Irenicus...


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Few of my own:

- Hm, perhaps I should restart and change this stat, class, NPC
- Where, the heck is that item again?
- Hm... is that mod content or did I miss something in those 10 runs?
- I miss a roleplay option
- Argh, forgot the ring of Gyaxx again... Than again good roleplay, after why would I help the dead thing?
- Darn another mod idea... I really have to finish MftW

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#6 Amaurea

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Posted 13 June 2008 - 04:21 AM

With the exception of the obvious male/female love interests, it sounds like Scipio and I have frighteningly similar playing styles.

The speed boots are my biggest indulgence. I have NO patience for how slowly the characters walk. Especially when they're heading down Aran Linvail's hallway for the 3rd time.

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#7 Jarno Mikkola

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Posted 13 June 2008 - 04:59 AM

6xBoot of speed, boot01, thanks.
Bag of holding, bag02, bag03, bag04, bag05, bag06, bag19a -e, bag20++ and bump that loot, we don't need it, just the space thanks.
"So I have myself a druid, Jaheira a fighter/druid, Minsc a ranger->cleric(with Wis18), and Aerie Mage/Cleric, do we need the Ring31, yes immediately!" "But what about the healing spells?" "What healing spells? We have none." <_<

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#8 Miloch

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Posted 13 June 2008 - 05:31 AM

6xBoot of speed, boot01, thanks.

Sigh... such a common cheat. Wouldn't it be so much better just to have a shop straightaway where you can just buy six pair boots of speed (maybe in different colours even)?

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#9 Nuuskamuikkunen

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Posted 13 June 2008 - 05:33 AM

Oh yeah, from my solo runs...
"I hate Hold Person"
"I hate Hold Person"
"HOLD PERSON IS A STUPID, CHEESY SPELL"

#10 Jarno Mikkola

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Posted 13 June 2008 - 06:03 AM

6xBoot of speed, boot01, thanks.

Sigh... such a common cheat. Wouldn't it be so much better just to have a shop straightaway where you can just buy six pair boots of speed (maybe in different colours even)?

Or one could put them to the Chest 7(container 32 in NI) in the ar0602. ;)

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#11 Miloch

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Posted 13 June 2008 - 06:23 AM

Or one could put them to the Chest 7(container 32 in NI) in the ar0602. ;)

Now that's making things a little too easy. Why not patch them onto all NPCs and your PC while we're at it? :P

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#12 Lysan Lurraxol

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Posted 13 June 2008 - 08:05 AM

The most frequent thoughts I have are

- Oh crap. The party's full. Now what do I do? (This is most frequent in BG1 NPC when my party gets radically changed at almost every new area)

- I know I've just cheated in 9999999999 gold, but I'm still going to loot those gibberling corpses.

- They killed off Dynaheir for this?

And in a heavily modded game

- Please, please, please, please don't crash? Pretty, pretty, pwetty pwease? With flamethrowers?

- Oh sh*t.


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#13 Lythari

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Posted 13 June 2008 - 02:10 PM

Most of them sounds sooo familiar...
More frequent thoughts:
-*walking in the forest/city/dungeons* Wait! Xan gets lost again.
-We're going left. No, Minsc, not that second left!
-Don't go in that room full of skeletons, you fool!!
-*when party stuck in the entrance to the inn* When woul'd you finally go inside, I wonder...
-*guy is sneaking through the room full of enemies* OK, they don't see us... No,no,no, don't attack it! Holy crap...
-I. HATE. DOMINATION. SPELLS...
-The loot is full and I found that nice, shiny sword... to take it, or not to take, that is the question... or what throw out instead?
-*I have 200000 GP * Should I buy this robe? Naaaah, I have to spare the money.
-My mage has 1 HP left. He is panicked. So why the hell is he running into the whole group of enemies?
-*I'm resting after very hard battle and my party has barely few HP.* "The enemies disturb you in your rest". Oh, wonderful... Reload...

And that sweet times of BG 1:
-Oh crap! Ambush again! Run away! Run away! Get off this area, quick!
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#14 Sir_Carnifex

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Posted 13 June 2008 - 02:47 PM

I don't even have the CLUA console enabled in my play install.

In BG1 (with Hard Times loaded):

-- Another dagger! I have to pick that up! Oh, and that long sword... and those six suits of leather armor... Now why won't my characters move?

-- Hmm... three extra swords. Is that enough or should I get another one in case they break?

-- Yah! Another group of Hobgoblin Elites! Quick, where's the poison antidote? Uh oh...

-- Whoops! Forgot to refill my quiver... AGAIN.

And BG2:

-- Hmm, I wonder if there's a trap there. Maybe I should send Minsc through and see if he can survive...

-- <MAGIC USER, NON - PC) Stand back out of the way, the real fighters will take care of this... as soon as you cast that breach spell...

-- Oops! I thought the party was out of range of that fireball. Reload again...

-- That's right...keep pounding that mage with your sword. Eventually you'll have to break through...

-- Uh oh... separated from the party and no healing potions and the only person with any left is far, far away... Minsc, toss your potions to Jaheira, so she can toss them to Imoen, so she can give them to me before this dragon fries me!

-- I better not use that Heroism potion. I might need it later... I better not use any of those three Heroism potions, I might need them later... I better not use those four heroism potions and those seven potions of fire giant strength, I might need them later... I better get another potion case...
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Posted 13 June 2008 - 03:06 PM

I don't even have the CLUA console enabled in my play install.

In BG1 (with Hard Times loaded):

-- Another dagger! I have to pick that up! Oh, and that long sword... and those six suits of leather armor... Now why won't my characters move?

-- Hmm... three extra swords. Is that enough or should I get another one in case they break?

-- I better not use that Heroism potion. I might need it later... I better not use any of those three Heroism potions, I might need them later... I better not use those four heroism potions and those seven potions of fire giant strength, I might need them later... I better get another potion case...


And I thought that only I'm that weird... :cheers:
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#16 Sir_Carnifex

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Posted 13 June 2008 - 03:49 PM

I don't even have the CLUA console enabled in my play install.

In BG1 (with Hard Times loaded):

-- Another dagger! I have to pick that up! Oh, and that long sword... and those six suits of leather armor... Now why won't my characters move?

-- Hmm... three extra swords. Is that enough or should I get another one in case they break?

-- I better not use that Heroism potion. I might need it later... I better not use any of those three Heroism potions, I might need them later... I better not use those four heroism potions and those seven potions of fire giant strength, I might need them later... I better get another potion case...


And I thought that only I'm that weird... :cheers:

It's called saving for the rainy day that always comes but you never notice...

My latest BG1 PC (He's a real miser) has amassed a fortune of almost 4000 gold BEFORE hitting the mines. Yes, I saved every dagger, sword, helmet, etc. that I could find. Half the time the party could barely move. It's only hard times for those who are careless with their money!

Edited by Sir_Carnifex, 13 June 2008 - 03:50 PM.

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#17 Vicen

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Posted 13 June 2008 - 03:57 PM

Haha yeah my last time playing through bg1 I dont even think I used any pots besides healing ones till the final battle...you just always want to save em and what not

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#18 Scipio

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Posted 13 June 2008 - 04:08 PM

-- I better not use that Heroism potion. I might need it later... I better not use any of those three Heroism potions, I might need them later... I better not use those four heroism potions and those seven potions of fire giant strength, I might need them later... I better get another potion case...

:D That is definitely one of my shortcomings. I get to the Pocket Plane with about 50 of those teeny-weeny healing potions I've been saving since the Irenicus dungeon "in case we need them, guys!"

I'm also great at buying up Arrows of Dispelling and constantly forgetting to use them against enemy mages.
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#19 Amaurea

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Posted 13 June 2008 - 04:12 PM

It's called saving for the rainy day that always comes but you never notice...

My latest BG1 PC (He's a real miser) has amassed a fortune of almost 4000 gold BEFORE hitting the mines. Yes, I saved every dagger, sword, helmet, etc. that I could find. Half the time the party could barely move. It's only hard times for those who are careless with their money!


Heh! I've played Hard Times exactly the same way. But still, easy as it was to work around, I'm rather enjoying the roleplay aspect of it. It adds the same kind of feeling that the SCSII component that takes away the party's gear in Spellhold does. A must on all further installs.

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Posted 13 June 2008 - 05:27 PM

- Gods I look sexy in this game with my new portrait!
- Who remembers when Long Sword +2 was actually COOL?
- Shut up Jaheira
- Shut up Nalia
- Oh...what now? Oh! MOD CHARACTER! Let me guess...another sob story? You mom died? Your dad was slain? Your sister is in love with you? Your past has come to haunt you? Your dog peed on you? Ah okay. Let me just stop everything I'm doing to save my own ass so we can talk about YOUR problems.
- Shut up Cernd...oh wait..you weren't talking. You never talk. You just...stand there.
- Bodhi, you talk waayyy too much.
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