blatantninja
Resident Redneck Facist
Just finished Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition. Played it exclusively on my Surface Pro, about 90% while on the subway. Obviously not much to say about BG that hasn't been said 1000x already, so will focus on the EE part.
It ran beautifully until the 1.3 patch, but I had a backup and restored myself to 1.2. They don't officially support Intel GPUs and particularly the Surface Pro (which is grade A bullshit IMO). At launch, there were issues due to this, but people found work arounds, then they fixed the problems in patches. They tried to fix some graphics thing in 1.3, but it in turn broke whatever they previously fixed for Intel GPU/SP and have been utterly useless in resolving it.
Now that that is over with, I enjoyed playing it at a higher resolution, but with the GUI a static size. Made it much easier to use on a small touchscreen like the SP. I enjoyed the new characters for the most part. Was nice to have some party banter. I added Neera, Dorn and Rasaah. The evil drow mage was added after I started I think and since he's not in BG2:EE and I was already pretty far along with Neera, I just killed him when I met him. If I were to play again, I'd grab him early (though evil characters annoy me) and ditch Neera.
I found the new NPC's interesting and the banter was nice, but nothing blew me away. The new areas associated with Neera and Rasaah were less than breathtaking, but it was nice to have new areas that weren't just recycled areas from one of the IE games. If they had added something like a Watcher's Keep to EE, I think there would have been a lot less complaining.
I think the most interesting thing to me was that because of the way I played, it was both fresh and stale. I've played BG so many times, I pretty much remember all the quests, so as expected it was a bit stale, however it had been long enough that I forgot a lot of the details. I've gotten real bad about looking up cheats online for games, but since I was on the subway most of the time, that simply wasn't possible. So I really had to figure a few things out as I went.
For the first time probably in any of my plays, I actually got good at using buffs. I've been more of a throw my tanks in and then let hell loose with magic type of player. Strategy is not my forte.
All in all it was a lot of fun, but I was kind of ready for it to be done by the time I got to the end. I'm in no great hurry to play BG2:EE right now as I have enough other games on my plate.
Right now I'm debating between playing Ps:T or finishing Fallout during my commute. I've never gotten far in Ps:T and I'm about 1/3 through Fallout for the first time. Ps:T seems to work ok on the SP once I did all the GUI mods. The buttons are a bit small still, so that could be problematic. Haven't tried Fallout yet.
It ran beautifully until the 1.3 patch, but I had a backup and restored myself to 1.2. They don't officially support Intel GPUs and particularly the Surface Pro (which is grade A bullshit IMO). At launch, there were issues due to this, but people found work arounds, then they fixed the problems in patches. They tried to fix some graphics thing in 1.3, but it in turn broke whatever they previously fixed for Intel GPU/SP and have been utterly useless in resolving it.
Now that that is over with, I enjoyed playing it at a higher resolution, but with the GUI a static size. Made it much easier to use on a small touchscreen like the SP. I enjoyed the new characters for the most part. Was nice to have some party banter. I added Neera, Dorn and Rasaah. The evil drow mage was added after I started I think and since he's not in BG2:EE and I was already pretty far along with Neera, I just killed him when I met him. If I were to play again, I'd grab him early (though evil characters annoy me) and ditch Neera.
I found the new NPC's interesting and the banter was nice, but nothing blew me away. The new areas associated with Neera and Rasaah were less than breathtaking, but it was nice to have new areas that weren't just recycled areas from one of the IE games. If they had added something like a Watcher's Keep to EE, I think there would have been a lot less complaining.
I think the most interesting thing to me was that because of the way I played, it was both fresh and stale. I've played BG so many times, I pretty much remember all the quests, so as expected it was a bit stale, however it had been long enough that I forgot a lot of the details. I've gotten real bad about looking up cheats online for games, but since I was on the subway most of the time, that simply wasn't possible. So I really had to figure a few things out as I went.
For the first time probably in any of my plays, I actually got good at using buffs. I've been more of a throw my tanks in and then let hell loose with magic type of player. Strategy is not my forte.
All in all it was a lot of fun, but I was kind of ready for it to be done by the time I got to the end. I'm in no great hurry to play BG2:EE right now as I have enough other games on my plate.
Right now I'm debating between playing Ps:T or finishing Fallout during my commute. I've never gotten far in Ps:T and I'm about 1/3 through Fallout for the first time. Ps:T seems to work ok on the SP once I did all the GUI mods. The buttons are a bit small still, so that could be problematic. Haven't tried Fallout yet.