Episode 220 : Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance (PS2)

... So there's nothing that drops that's only for the sorceress. Generally, all the gear is that you get will be probably useful for when you do get something that's stunningly good. But a game like Diablo or even like even something like Borderlands, right, or Phantasy Star Online was like this. You might get to the end of this big fight and then they drop an item that is completely useless for your class. ...

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... If you didn't play the other fighter characters, you might not realize how little you have comparatively. But the game is designed much like Diablo that you're just taking on endless hordes of warriors and then essentially just drinking potions nonstop to recoup all the damage you're taking. And then, you know, after you've cleared the screen of enemies or cleared the area of enemies, you have a chance to go back. ...

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... The story for this, I actually like a lot. You know, Diablo is fun. But the story for Diablo is basically just like, oh, yeah, you're fighting a demon run. ...

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... I also had played this one. It was new a friend of mine who's way into both Baldur's Gate and D&D stuff and also games like Diablo. You know, we saw this. ...

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So I played it several times over the years, but hadn't played it again for probably the past 15 years. Until last month I picked it back up just to kind of get a refresher on it, since I'd asked you guys to play it. I think it's when we were all at least a little bit familiar with I know I was and we'll get into that when I have Billy and Jerry back on but were you a fan of other Dungeons and Dragons games or just Diablo style games or why was this one specifically one that you had interest in when you were…

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... So we sat down and played a lot of co-op in that game. And first off, like it is really not a Baldur's Gate game. It's closer to something like Diablo. We'll get into it. Yes. But like it's a very good kind of Diablo game. It is not what I thought it was going to be, but it was definitely something that was that had been very much missing on like the home console space. ...

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... Level three, you get three new points to put into these abilities that give you all those different spells you can cast or different abilities your characters will get. I really think this is this is why the game kind of stands out to a game like I mean, even a Diablo, because you could each play the same character. And you could pick different abilities here and and kind of really branch out and become a different character. ...

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... Was there any section that you got to that you were like, I keep tripping over this and it's not it's just me. It's not even the game's fault. This is all me. Yeah, it was mostly me just because of the camera sometimes like it's an awkward kind of like, I mean, you can make it to where it's just over the top of you, but it's still in a way for the most part where it's kind of got that three fourth view like Diablo. And that's not great for a lot of the when it does want you to start doing jumps and stuff like…

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... It is more of that. That Diablo slash gauntlet style, you have here's a wall of enemies and you're going to take them all down by just this arcade style fighting. But underneath it, there is all that kind of very simple version of the D&D kind of math system. ...

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... That's really cool. Now it seems obvious. But at the time, that was pretty remarkable. So like the the way that you play co-op in this game is still one of my all time favorites, because I even today, whenever you play something like Borderlands or Diablo, if you're playing with someone else and you both haven't agreed on just like, let's keep moving, there are so many starts and stops because of all the loot that drops. ...

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