fa52d2 No.13873129
There's a vidya that i certainly MUST complete on D&D core rules, and its Baldur's Gate, but every fucking time i do a run on it, i get bored after spending few days roaming and killing things. How do you mentally prepare yourself to git gud at not getting bored by video games? This is my fucking main vidya problem right now.
e4f4d4 No.13873140
I play games that I'm interested in.
30541c No.13873151
uninstall everything else on your PC including the web browser
or
try not being a spastic?
fa52d2 No.13873153
>>13873140
But what if you both interested in vidya, and get bored by it?
719e8f No.13873157
It's one of those games where you need to just chill and get into it. It helps if you use your imagination and get in the world.
5e2e1a No.13873163
Try being retarded. I hear that makes Bioware trash easier to swallow.
061760 No.13873169
>>13873157
This. That counts for any D&D based game.
d8adce No.13873195
I've only ever finished games I don't like for dumb reasons.
I used to get into arguments with my friends over games being shit, but they'd say "how can you even saaaay that, you didn't even beeeaat iitt" or "it gets better, I swear!", so I'd play the whole thing so I could tell them they're wrong.
I don't do that anymore, thankfully.
cc021f No.13873201
I play games I like. If for some reason I cannot get back into a back after a hiatus I uninstall it.
I uninstalled Baldur's Gate but that was more because of the stupid quests than anything else.
254c2d No.13873211
>>13873129
If you're bored then don't play it. Why do you have to complete it?
8644a6 No.13873234
Be careful though. Forcing yourself to finish a game may cause you to hate the game even more. You'll see it more as a chore than an entertaining experience.
68dd02 No.13873248
>>13873129
Nigger, you play vidya to have fun. If it stops being fun and you are bored, just drop it. Forcing yourself against your will to finish a piece of entertainment is fucking retarded.
fa52d2 No.13873258
>>13873211
>>13873195
Honestly my reason is that i need to finish BG1 before starting famous BG2, to know background of my companion characters, especially Minsk. I also kinda dislike whole storyline of BG1 as well, not infinity engine combat alone. I just want to believe it gets better.
254c2d No.13873297
>>13873258
If you don't like BG1 then why do you think you will like BG2?
57d752 No.13873307
>>13873151
>>13873140
both of these are true
c7177a No.13873317
Don't do things that aren't fun and aren't making you money.
fa52d2 No.13873319
>>13873297
Because even on /v/ there are people who still say that BG2 is the best rpg ever made.
254c2d No.13873357
>>13873319
It's not like /v/ can't have shit taste.
e4f4d4 No.13873370
>>13873319
That's dumb. BG1 is good old early level D&D and not much else, while BG2 starts throwing all sorts of magical shit at you. The story in both is, quite frankly, a little retarded.
8b6960 No.13873380
This is going to sound super gay, but let's plays help me a lot to get motivated to play vidya that requires a lot of investment, I usually look for an obscure channel for maximum comfy and try to stay ahead of the LPer, so I can play a bit, watch that episode of the LP, then play a bit more and so on. That has helped a lot to finish long JRPGs with lots of dialog.
e4f4d4 No.13873391
>>13873380
It almost makes you feel like you have friends, doesn't it?
fa52d2 No.13873394
>>13873380
So basically you pretend to have a friend.
57d752 No.13873423
>>13873380
you're right **it does sound pretty gay*
8b6960 No.13873429
>>13873391
>>13873394
Having weeb friends who just happen to be playing the same long-ass JRPGs as you at the same time as you is probably pretty rare anyway or so I like to tell myself.
1a1847 No.13873520
Play a bunch of 80's games without cheats or walkthroughs. This one's pretty good.
4a82c6 No.13873555
>>13873129
pretty hard right? specially when there is a ton of good games waiting in your backlog and you just want to jump in and try them,
>>13873248
there are games that are fun and you like it, but inevitably gets left off to the side due to you being distracted and life stuff,
but thing is, sometimes you just want to get through with it, to complete and feel satisfied
>>13873380
I know that feels, and yes, sometimes watching LP makes me feel less lonely, I even have things playing on the background solely for the voice noise
is that weird? I thought this was the reason retarded youtubers and streamers are famous nowadays
a57242 No.13873843
>>13873380
I couldn't do this because people who do these videos are always worse than me at the video game.
f8394e No.13873877
>>13873153
You watch it on Youtube. You want to know Baldur's Gate for the sake of being knowledgable but you are not interested in playing it yourself. This is not hard to grasp, anon.
6cc6d3 No.13873887
>>13873129
BG1 is not that good of a game honestly. Everything before the titular city is kind of crap stretched way too thin across an empty landscape. You can speed the game up to 60 FPS to make the process of lawnmowing away the fog of war quicker. Past a certain point you can just prebuff your group and clean out half a map before needing to rest.
Once you get inside the city it starts to get better. There's a reason BG2 starts in a (new) city and spends around 75% of its time there
c36c66 No.13873990
>>13873520
Back in cuckchan's /vr/ there used to be the gauntlet threads which were a really fun challenge. Basically generate a random number that corresponds to the number of release of a game. You start with NES and you have to beat the game you get within a week, after that you move on to SNES or Genesis and pick another random number and so on.
I got a couple of really fun and weird games this way.
a57242 No.13874038
>>13873990
I beat Terminator 2.
03b2fb No.13874088
I can't stand how disposable games have become so I try to finish every game I buy.
Nothing annoys me more than seeing people with hundreds of games in their library without even playing them.
Or some hyped game that has a 30% completion rate.
8957ee No.13874106
There comes a point where wading through a shit game just to prove to yourself that you didn't "chicken out" of anything just isn't worth the trouble. That point is Baldur's Gate.
0d41e6 No.13874117
Every time I play E.Y.E. I get sucked into it for two hours, but I can rarely get myself to push the "play" button.
It's enthralling when I play it, but starting to play it is the problem.
I think that it's the fucky save system that kills my motivation to keep going each day.
125599 No.13874121
>>13874088
>tfw 100% on BOI before it got shitty
>tfw 100% on Cuphead and Hollow Knight
f04795 No.13874690
>>13873877
That's the most pathetic tryhard shit imaginable.
5e2e1a No.13874727
>>13874690
What's tryhard about taking the path of least resistance?
2a0e0e No.13874986
The trick with Baldur's Gate is if you get bored, completely ignore sidequests and beeline for the story required parts. When I played it, I had to take a break for 9 months because I got burned out exploring every map and doing every quest, then I went to Cloakwood. Cloakwood was too much.
0cc2f6 No.13875561
>>13873258
Just skip BG1 if it bores you, BG2 is where it gets really good (coming from someone who does actually like BG1). If you still want to play it, here are two tips that made the game much more pleasant to play.
< Increase the maximum framerate in the setting program
(ingame settings don't have that option). The game's speed is tied to the framerate, so if you increase that FPS cap the game will run faster in every way: characters walk faster, combat is faster, effects wear off faster… you get the idea. It's not cheating if everything scales up the same
< Use the teleport cheat when revisiting a map
I think it was CTRL-J or something like that. Look on the internet for it. I used that cheat when traversing a map that I had already visited, because what's the point of watching your party traverse the same area for the 50th time? I don't really consider it a cheat when it's only used to skip areas you have already been in instead of jumping where I haven't been yet.
I also recommend playing using the Baldur's Gate Trilogy mod that lets you play the game in the BG2 engine. Much more pleasant experience. Also, don't try to 100% the game, that's pointless. If the side quests bore you just go for the main story. Baldur's Gate is a pretty rough game, it was BioWare's first RPG and it came out in a time when PC RPGs were considered dead.
63fc9d No.13876213
why would i force myself to complete something that i didnt enjoy when the entire point is to entertain me? train yourself to not give a shit and go do something you find fun.
c12fd4 No.13876251
>>13873129
>i get bored after spending few days roaming and killing things.
<playing BG1
<not amusing yourself by stealing Drizzt Do'Urden's swords Icingdeath and Twinkle when he makes a brief cameo.
>>13876213
>why would i force myself to complete something that i didnt enjoy when the entire point is to entertain me?
/v/ is for autistics only. You'll need to leave.
edcdfb No.13876261
>>13875561
I think the original bg2 had a config.exe that lets you double the FPS.
deeb38 No.13876311
All the BG games are mostly about talking and diplomacy so I advise you to skip them all cause they're trash and play something better like IWD or Arcanum
54f39c No.13876333
>>13873129
>How do you mentally prepare yourself to git gud at not getting bored by video games? This is my fucking main vidya problem right now.
It's a mystery to me anon. All of my favorite old RPG standbys just bore me these days, I can't get immersed and have fun with the mechanics. I always seem to be in a rush, ignoring everything about the game except completing the next goal to move on to the next one, making me impatient, making me bored with the pace.
Is metagaming ruining my appreciation of the classics?
edeba6 No.13876634
>>13875561
>I also recommend playing using the Baldur's Gate Trilogy mod
this or TuTu. BG can be a fun game, but it needs some extra love with mods that bring it at least to BG2 standards.
b352d5 No.13876710
>>13873129
> D&D core rules
That's amusing since bladder's gates pretty much shit on D&D.
b00fea No.13876720
It took the second title to get me immersed in the game. The first playthrough I was dying every time I walked around a corner and had the full 6 char evil party. Expansion was even kind of cool.
The first game never really sucked me in. I only explored enough to figure out where all the best shit was so that I could speed run it. In fact I mainly only played it on my phone at work.
Multiplayer in both games is pretty much just a gimmick, but can be fun with the right friend. The pause function kind of kills it.
Siege of Dragonspear was awful. I was really excited until I found out it was written by blue hair harpies. It wasn't long into the game (around the time I realized baeloth was in the starter party) before I quit and re-rolled out a kensai/mage and just went full murderhobo by killing anyone the game would allow me to. Never figured out the plot and never want to.
rip
188f9c No.13877310
I do this and I hate it. So many good games start out slow or shitty and get way better, but a lot more are shit all the way through. It's really hard to tell. I just look for red flags like badly done moral choice system, extremely simplistic combat that can't go anywhere, just signs that the game has nowhere to grow.
On the other hand there are games that are amazing at first, then go to shit. Then I just force myself through to see if it goes back to being decent. It never does, the devs ran out of ideas/time/etc
bc027d No.13881718
>>13873877
Well, at least it would be better to watch someone's co-op of enhanced edition games, at least some unique experience.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRWUY0T6-pqJ4AcUOgeCq0Q/playlists
1f081a No.13881728
>>13873140
First post best post.
8f0348 No.13882093
>>13873990
That was the best thing to come from /v/ in a while. I ended up beating that Tom Sawyer NES game. Made the episode of Game Center where he played that game a lot more engaging.
88ebdc No.13882132
>>13876722
>"enhanced" edition
c1960b No.13882152
>>13873129
Try one of the mods that makes it play like BG2.
b09c50 No.13882158
>>13873129
Don't play boring videogames. If a game isn't compelling then its not good and therefore not worth playing.
2dc045 No.13882162
I will never play fallout 1 or 2 because of the controls. It's such a hassle to move your little faggy character around the screen. And exploring the areas fucking sucks.
b09c50 No.13882168
>>13882162
The controls are the least of those games issues, you just click somewhere to move there. What's the hassle in that?
88ebdc No.13882174
>>13882168
He probably wants a controller.
2dc045 No.13882190
Also Gothic 1 and 2 is so fucking clunky it's unbelievable people think it's good. It's an exercise in patience. There were games with much better controls than Gothshit
0849ee No.13882239
>>13873319
I've found over the years that there are some "classic" games that I just can't get into. BG is one of them. For some reason most isometric RPGs just don't do it for me.
e066dc No.13882251
>>13882168
you're probably talking to reddit
28697e No.13882258
>>13873129
>How do you mentally prepare yourself to git gud at not getting bored by video games?
If you need to do that you better find another hobby.
2dc045 No.13882268
Final Fantasies are all shit that I force myself to trudge through. Yes even tactics
2dc045 No.13882276
Also KOTOR just has awful menus that are impossible to navigate through
0befbc No.13882294
>>13873319
>BG2 is the best rpg ever made
That's just silly
BG2 is hilariously overrated as a game
19bae8 No.13882300
>>13882276
It was made for xbawks.
e35fdc No.13882301
>>13882168
Maybe he never figured out that your character can run?
157313 No.13884335
>>13873990
What's stopping you from making a gauntlet thread here? I'd participate