Im confused. Is this site ded?, Or does noone like bg1? Options

[Shatflinger]

ARG! does noone like BG1? Noones posted since 2006?
That makes me sad
I like bg1...

[D'rischav'rel]

I myself felt that the constant bombardment of "Help me!" in BG2 was a little overwhelming. It's exciting and fun, yes, but I agree that it's not very realistic. I've played BG1 straight through TOB so many times now that I constantly figure new ways to play the game to keep it interesting. Lately my way of playing through is to take a historical character or a particular personality and play through under those parameters. My most recent was the Roman Lucius Cornelius Sulla, which was INCREDIBLY fun. But no matter what I do or who I play as, I try to keep the story in as logical an order as possible, which is EXTREMELY hard to do in BG2 without skipping numerous quests. For instance, if you're truly so worried about Imoen's safety or Irenicus's plans for you, then wouldn't you go to the Shadow Thieves or Bodhi as soon as you had the money and to hell with the rest? And even when you leave the Underdark, there's still no really logical time to finish most quests; after all, you're trying to get your very SOUL back, which rather seems to me to take precedence over finding murderers with stuffed teddy bears or running errands for temples.
Another thing I liked better about BG1 was the more sarcastic/ironic dialogue options for the PC. Though I suppose BG2 makes up for it by giving NPCs more dimension (by which I mean back story, gibes directed at each other, et cetera). I couldn't really say whether I like one better than another unless referring only to specific aspects of the game, and I think that to get a really full experience of the story it's necessary to play them all in order.

...Which makes me a bit wary of mod experimentation.