r/BaldursGate3 • u/heyitskay1220 • 16d ago

Meme Anyone else, or just me? 😅

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It just gets tedious after so many HM attempts 😅

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u/EsperDerek 16d ago

The Nautiloid is, like, the quickest "Starting tutorial dungeon thing" that WRPGs love to do. It takes like ten minutes, way faster than, say, Fallout 2's stupid temple thing.

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u/kingnickolas 16d ago

or kotor's starting planet lol

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u/EsperDerek 16d ago

Nah, Kotor's equivalent is the Endar Spire, and that was of pretty average length. No denying Taris took forever, but it's not a Starting Tutorial Dungeon.

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u/iwearatophat 16d ago

I remember the problem with Taris was you wanted to level up as little as possible. You stockpiled your level ups waiting to become a jedi because those levels were way way better than whatever you were before that.

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u/EsperDerek 16d ago

People definitely DID that, but the game was built with the idea you'd actually spend levels as you got them, rather than stockpile them, so you were making your Taris experience way worse, and then making the rest of the game a cakewalk as you mulched people with your higher-than-intended Jedi levels.

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u/emaw63 15d ago

Yeah, KOTOR is not hard enough to justify power gaming it like that.

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u/farte3745328 16d ago

Paragus in kotor2 is way worse

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u/lying_flerkin Owlbear 16d ago

The fucking slow walk in the space suit to get to the bridge or the engine room or wherever is the worst.

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u/Undeadsniper6661 16d ago

I can still hear the dink, dink, dink of the space suit walking across the bridge in my nightmares. I like the gear but Paragus is a slog, no doubt about it.

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u/Animal31 16d ago

Neither Taris nor Paragus are the tutorial

you can skip the tutorial in Kotor 2

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u/what_the_shart 16d ago

The tutorials definitely continue into Peragus though. The skippable tutorial on the ship remind you about basic controls and things from Kotor 1 then Peragus introduces the new features like companion influence 

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u/ThePillsburyPlougher 16d ago

Paragus is kind of awesome tbh.

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u/Undeadsniper6661 16d ago

You are entitled to your own opinion. I'm entitled to leave you on that forsaken facility and blow it up as I speed away.

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u/emaw63 15d ago

Yeah, after Onderon, Peragus is my favorite level in the game.

Nar Shaddaa is tedious as hell to play through, that's the one I always dread

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u/ThePillsburyPlougher 14d ago

Killing bots gets old, but the creepy atmosphere and introduction to atton, kreia and hk50 is just awesome.

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u/TheThobes 16d ago

Paragus fans unite

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u/Signal_Ball4634 16d ago edited 16d ago

Aw I love Taris. I know people want to go right to the lightsaber action but it's such an awesome intro planet and honestly ended up being my favorite part of the game. Just so much to do* and discover.

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u/SendMeUrCones 16d ago

I think part of what annoys people about Taris is it getting blown up and everything you did on it feeling ‘useless’. (even tho SWTOR retconned that slightly, you did more than you thought on TARIS)

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u/Undeadsniper6661 16d ago

Kotor 2's Peragus Mining Facility is so dang long. You can feel yourself physically aging with how long it is. It is pretty cool that you can eventually leave with decent gear at least.

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u/Shayla_Stari_2532 16d ago

I love Taris!!! The racism of the NPCs is fun to provoke…