pixel artist, game dev
its wild to me how Baldur's Gate has this reputation of being like a super serious game series now that I'm playing BG1.... This game is fucking wacky as hell
like i found a shitty circus. the circus magician's entire act was that he could summon an ogre named oompah and he would explode on command. and you can have him do this 3 times in a row but on the fourth time oompah turns around and tries to kill you
that's amazing. I miss when games were expected to be full of wacky stuff like that, you could have so much fun just poking at stuff to see what would happen
there's some great unintended wackyness too
i was doing a "no reloads" playthrough on story mode, didn't understand how spell slots worked, and ended up extremely pissing off Minsc because i spent weeks using my single identify spell to identify all my loot, instead of, you know, doing his time-sensitive quest
so then he attacked us & died 🙃
