Baldur's Gate II Shadows of Amn (Steam)
Took my Monk from BG and Siege of Dragonspear straight into this one. I think this is the 4th time I've played this all up, but this is the first time using the enhanced edition. I sided with the Vampires, did not take Yoshimo into Spellhold...mainly because when it came to have him join the party he was nowhere to be found. So I took the Enhanced Editon character- Hexxat, who I was using up until I got Imoen back.
I chose not to take the boat out of Spellhold. Went on a killing rampage through the Underdark Drow city. Went with the totally boring final character mix of My Monk, Minsc, Nalia, Imoen, Viconia and Jaheira. MVP goes to Viconia, just give her the Girdle of giant strenth, dress her up in the best armor and the Flail of Ages and she is a super tank. Plus, she one shot 4 Dragons with Finger of Death! Never leave home without her.
My Monk finished up at level 23. Overall, BG2 is a good game, especially the earlier parts where you're going around the countryside doing character and side quests. As you go deeper into the story, the more the game totally starts to shit me. All the scripted BS where the dev's prioritize their crappy overrated story over game mechanics. I mean you cast improved invisibility on a character and send them to make a hit, and the game just overrides it and starts up a conversation with an invisible character that it shouldn't know is there. What is the point of making an RPG with all of these abilities and then never let you use them when it matters the most? Anytime an RPG takes control off a player to prioritize scripted story or unavoidable encounters...then it stops being an RPG and just becomes a video game. This is why I rate the old Fallout games or Temple of Elemental Evil as way superior RPG's over the Infinity games. Throne of Bhaal only gets worse in that respect, but I'm planning to go straight into it and finish the story off.
