Reply #33: Console vs PC ...

[RoyGBiv]

The console version of the game was nothing compared to the PC version. Among most PC fans, the console version is considered some other game with the same name.

BG does require a lot of patience and a time investment to play properly, which is to say, doing everything you possibly can do. I haven't had the time in quite awhile. I spent a good solid three weeks during a period of unemployment several years ago playing it, and that's pretty much all I did ... completely lost track of time.

There are some things in this that teach a lesson. If you walk up to a peasant on the street and just kill him or her, if anyone sees you do it, every time you walk into that town from then on out, the entire town is hostile toward you. If any have weapons, they immediately try to kill you. What's more, it doesn't matter if you're currently "fighting evil." If you accidentally kill a bystander (collateral damage) the town still goes hostile.