Every time this music starts, you know you're in for a fucking fight.

Protagonist: "The enemy has surrounded us. Those poor bastards."

This music represents that amazing moment when you realize your character is no longer a scrappy underdog squaring off against vastly more powerful foes, but someone who is now their equal. And soon... their better.

@ignaziozocco9870

3 жыл бұрын

Nearly impossible to beat other bhaalspawns on 1vs1 without cheats. Maybe on easy mode. So, the main char is not equal to his brothers.

@MrBellyar

3 жыл бұрын

@@ignaziozocco9870 My 25 str 20 dex 22 con 370hp -22 AC, -22/20 (Blackrazor/Crom Faeyr) (tensered, stoneskined, imaged, imp hasted and Imune to any kind of control (bers)) spellsword would beg to differ.

@SyperDT

3 жыл бұрын

@@ignaziozocco9870 My archer that does 100+ points of damage a round begs to differ.

@unclefiend2138

3 жыл бұрын

@@ignaziozocco9870 It's perfectly possible to do the _entire game_ solo on the hardest difficulty. You just have to play really well and patiently. Yes, its hard, but its very far from impossible.

@soanvig

3 жыл бұрын

@@ignaziozocco9870 It's actually easier (BG2/ToB), because you don't have to split the best equipment, and keep whole EXP for yourself, so you are like god in the second part of the game. Especially with lvl cap taken off and minmaxing character.

I remember when this music came on for the first time my little children came running to see what was happening....even young ones could sense something epic had to be going on.

@dc8836

7 жыл бұрын

Really, the scale of ToB IS epic. I mean, sure, Illasera and Gromnir weren't exactly epic in scale, but Yaga-shura, Abazigal, and especially Sendai absolutely were. You sneak into the middle of Yaga-shura's army to assassinate him, cut your way through numerous high-level captains and lieutenants to reach him, beat him until he realizes he's mortal, and then have to hold off waves of reinforcements while he goes to get friends to help him, desperately trying to kill him before his ENTIRE ARMY notices what's going on and overwhelms you. Abazigal is a battle with an adult (half) blue dragon, plus numerous wyverns and drakes after fighting through his entire lair and killing his brown (half) dragon son just to get inside, after Elminster himself states that he would definintely not want to fight you. And Sendai has you slowly murdering your way through her entire base, with her composure cracking and fracturing as you get inexorably closer no matter what she throws at you. Ulitharids, dragons, arch-demons... you just keep coming, nothing seems to be stopping you or even really slowing you down. And then when you fight Sendai herself you have to fight multiple full-strength clones of her, each with a different class and specialty, and you have to kill each of the clones in sequence before Sendai herself is even vulnerable. And Sendai is an epic-level Cleric/Mage. I mean, a damned Lich in Saradush explicitly says he doesn't want to fight you because he knows he'll lose. A lich! The kind of monster that eats entire parties of mid-level adventurers for breakfast is terrified of you, alone. The BG series in general is just awesome in so many ways. It really is basically a love song to tabletop.

@Cyberdine2K12

7 жыл бұрын

David Carper might want to put *Spoiler* on a post like that in case anybody watching who's considering buying and playing doesn't get pre warned!

@Cyberdine2K12

7 жыл бұрын

David Carper David Carper But yes this was definitely an expansion based on epic battles rather than quests and adventure. I had the *Turning Point* Mod on mine which makes the battles much much harder. The Yaga Shura battle with Turning Point was exhilarating as it tests your party's stamina and adaptability; it's one of the few battles throughout the whole of SOA that produces a real feel of comradeship and veteran band of brothers in your party as you have to manoeuvre them repeatedly to handle the challenges and balance strengths and weaknesses of each member, commanding them accordingly to strategically battle as a team. And by this point it feels very much like your party has fought battle after battle at each other's side - despite differences; even if they dislike one another they are co-dependent, should one near their death another will be commanded to shed blood to stop them from falling. I have a no-death policy; if a member dies I re load, which adds to the sense of comradeship. And by now they are all distinguished heroes in their own right. In fact some of them even talk about their loyalty and devotion to the party (Viconia ironically probably the most despite the highly unlikely relationship). This makes it feel like a real journey and tale.

@ahmad3652

6 жыл бұрын

Abszegal is a battle with a half dragon half diety

@chesterdespic98

5 жыл бұрын

Rare Materia UK what is the turning point mod? Or is it just turning on the 6 second rule autopause?

I think what made this so impactful was that baldurs gate and 2 weren't exactly known for super intense music, they had a dragojn theme and some boss themes, but nothing with quite this sound. So when you pushed into Yaga Shura's camp and this shit started bellowing out it suddenly made it very clear you had just crossed the "Shits about to get real" Threshhold.

This music is the quintessence of the pure, uncontested and eternal absolute epicness of its game.

@brenbail2000

6 жыл бұрын

Kikoo Kikaboo Could NOT have said it any better!!!

@OFFICIALGODOfMoar

3 жыл бұрын

10/10 IGN...

This is the music that plays in game developers' heads when they see Baldurs Gate 3 review scores.

This is my favorite battle theme of all time. It truly captures what is going on when it plays: A Battle between The Strongest Bhaalspawn; A Battle Between Demigods with True Godhood as the potential ultimate prize. A clash that will shape the realms forever...

no more exploring the world, no more romance, no more helping the helpless.......just a gauntlet of blood and death with godhood on the line

God this is so Epic, the battle was so much fun. Yaga-Shura: "What...?! No! No, this cannot be! I... I am wounded!!!"

Best RPG series EVER!!

Epic ending to an epic series, only downside is that it had to end! :,(

@killertrip10

5 жыл бұрын

@L P i doubt it. In "murder in baldur's gate" Abdel Adrian (a.k.a. CHARNAME, the main character of this, gorions ward) gets into a battle with Viekang (thats right. The guy with the teleporting problem at tradesmeet), the last other Bhaalspawn, and the winner transforms into Bhaal and its up to the party of heroes to banish Bhaal to his plain and save Baldur's Gate. So as of now in 5e Bhaal is alive and well. I mean you can have another game set in Baldur's Gate but i felt the Bhaalspawn crisis is what made those games so enjoyable not the setting. I mean same damn thing coulda happened in planescapes plane and i would of liked it. Well mabey not in Sigil though. Wouldn't want lady of pain rewriting the universe again.

@58metzger

5 жыл бұрын

@L P I heard rumors.....they better not f it up.....I would so love to take my party for another adventure....I literally didn't want to finish tob because I knew it was the end....I loved every character in my party....I identified with them.... ik it's only a game....but it just goes to show how well written and how much heart was put into it

@TheReallydontcare

5 жыл бұрын

VICTORY

@nejjigrensmith2723

4 жыл бұрын

@@killertrip10 Well! Looks like we got it, and this time its Mindflayers coming to screw us up.

i've yet to find a better battle theme than this one. holy shit

Just so epic... Sent chills down my spine the first time I heard it.

I listened to this for about 20 minutes straight during my battle with Sendai. The enemies just never stopped coming.

@DeGroteLaaf

8 жыл бұрын

+Liam Anderson and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they

@chesterdespic98

7 жыл бұрын

The drow rule supreme!

@finalbladex8382

6 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/eXxnz7Jtm63LZ9I.html

@58metzger

5 жыл бұрын

Yes me too that battle has me drained....mine was lie 20 or 30 minutes at 2:00 am. Neighbours must have loved it lol

the best battle music in the bg series, so epic when you're fighting off dozens of fire giants

When that music first played I was like expieriencing real adventure . One of best games I played

the yaga shura battle was incredible.

@peddazz2365

7 жыл бұрын

I tottaly rolled over him

@ahmad3652

7 жыл бұрын

same while he paks a punch no doubt about it he isn't the finest for landing them tanking is the worst thing to try against a party of fighters and mages who have your measurements (i.e. know your strong and hate ice

@Jen-Yueh_Hu

6 жыл бұрын

I just cast harm on him and roflstomped him. But I presume that would not work with the Ascension mod.

Sendai, the best boss mechanism in whole Baldurs Gate

@sorapwn1200

8 жыл бұрын

And then I'm over here, soloing her like she's nothing....

@bjm_77

8 жыл бұрын

"My magic will crush you!"

This theme is so EPIC during the battle with balthazar.

It fits the situation precisely as you're fighting for your birthright, cutting your siblings down one by one to attain godhood.

I cast Time Stop and Simulacrum..Minsc and Boo attack.. Amelyssan: Too Strong!!!! That was one of the moments in my life:)

This battle is definitely a lot more fun with SCS and makes the battle last much longer for enjoying this epic battle theme.

I would have deserved to be a Bhaalspawn too.

It always felt so wrong to pause with this music playing

@dyingember8661

8 жыл бұрын

+Garrett O Glad that this glitch has been fixed in the BGE .

I simply LOVE THIS SONG! It's one of my favorites from ToB, since Oh my god... He only knows how many epic battles I've played with this sounding on backround. My God, it just makes me feel the Bhaal spawn again! It feels so good! xD It gives the Sendai, Abázigal and Baltazar battle the pure epicness they can only have. It's just amazing. I love this song. This, and the rare one it comes on Suldannessellar and The Sahuagin Town. :3

The most beautiful flower of BG2 is on the Throne of Bhaal. One of the most EPIC games in my life. EPIC yes, that's why I salute BG2 as one of the greatest RPGs of all time.

*cries* its all I ever wanted

I knew this expansion pack was not messing around when you had your first boss battle right after the intro.

@Transgender-ProphetMohammed

3 жыл бұрын

"Boss"-battle. A boss is somfin stronk.

@ukironman1

3 жыл бұрын

Illisandra the Quickly Dead

@MrShadowsetzer

3 жыл бұрын

@@ukironman1 Play the Ascension mod; you get to fight her the way she was planned to be before the execs had her nerfed. She'll wreck you if you're not careful. :)

@ukironman1

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrShadowsetzer I have! The only thing I could not kill was demogorgon...he is a rage factory and I have accepted I would never kill him.

@GoresVire

2 жыл бұрын

Illasera and her reavers were pushovers though. Compared to late-SoA fights she felt like a random NPC.

This brings back so many good memories, I wish I could play these games fresh again. The fights in ToB could be brutal but so fun. I felt like every boss fight was life or death. ToB had its issues but it was a damn good send off to my favorite RPGs. Feeling like I had to use every trick in my arsenal just to survive. Frantically micro-managing my casters, keeping my fighters alive.

Ascension + SCS2. This theme will become your dirge

@andrey22

8 жыл бұрын

Ascension Ilyich is actually one of my triggers. But seriously, my only strategy to date with him is to get him stuck on a doorframe and cheese the fog of war.

@Perkyguy

8 жыл бұрын

you cant do that with SCSII Ilyich. My biggest trigger is every SCSII mage ever. Even the random ambush mages. It makes no sense - any mage who can cast horrid wilthings wont be hanging with a group of non-magical weapon using thugs.

@andrey22

8 жыл бұрын

***** Or maybe they will because they know his meatshields stand no chance against them?

With Baldur's Gate 3 confirmed and in EA. I hope we get music this good for the Boss Battles.

@WanderingLoner1

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, didn't exactly work out well for bg3 did it? ;)

This music... Playing as I slaughtered Yaga-Shura's army, perfect. It really made every battle it was in sound epic in its own right.

Still waiting when they will come with a game half good as this! I mean listen to this song: Amazing epic battle theme. i feel like fighting balthasar fist to fist!

@RandomGarryGaming

10 жыл бұрын

Fingers crossed for Pillars of Eternity.

@Medivhmen

9 жыл бұрын

Xyrgra POE is not good as BG2 , played it and know it .

@Makrokosmos

9 жыл бұрын

Medivhmen What i dislike about POE is the good old "pick a fight and get xp for it". I Liked the random battles in BG....

@Medivhmen

9 жыл бұрын

Makrokosmos Yes my friend you are right, that is exactly what I've missed from the old games .

@Makrokosmos

7 жыл бұрын

Medivhmen Did you too spend the first few hours in AMN fighting a war versus the cowled wizards? ^^ I remember accidently casting arcane in a small fight with some thiefs, and suddenly the fuckers show up and ramble on about illegal magic. What ensues was a 7 hour campaing of defeating increasingly more cheesy wizard suqads with equally increasing more cheesy tactics and abuses. Damn dat XP boost made the rest of the game so much more fun, because now i was a bit overleveld and the whole "menacing encounters" thing flew right out of the window XD.

For me, finishing BG2 for the first time, The Five are: Illasera the overconfident Yaga-Shura the surprisingly frail Sendai the queen of the hordes Abazigal the hidden coward Balthazar the misguided

awesome dude!

Love TOB!

Playing the enhanced edition I remember this fight against Abazigal, thinking: "HA! I will stop time and destroy your defenses" and then my big WHAT?! watching how he is inmune to this and destroying my character in pieces..

I know there's not a lot of baldurs gate series fans that dont like affiliating themselves with the elder scrolls. But I wish someone made a mod that replaces the dragon battles of skyrim woth this. It's epic. I'm also a huge but recent fan of baldur's gate. It's one of the best games I ever played. Next one will be planescape: torment EE.

@gypruzzcaccamo6586

6 жыл бұрын

If you played those game in their EE version from Beamdog, it's like you didn't even played them, trust me. Especially Planescape.

@adahnyemeth6317

5 жыл бұрын

@@gypruzzcaccamo6586 This is not the first time I hear such things about EE. What's so wrong about it? Or it's just another veteran's complaint about passed times?

I just noticed the claws on the logo are the fingers on Melissans robes

Baldurs Gate has always the best uplifting soundtracks... Always...

Delectable!

I like it!

Jan Jansen set traps around her, my Invoker cast time stop, Pierce spell, and Summon Planar, my Cleric with Deadly Fire Aura (Just cast before) also cast Blade barrier, my two hasted and regenerating Berserks attack Melyssan and...battle has gone!

and then you cast time stop and spend the next 20 minutes reading through the log to check if they have spell turning...

This music is so epic! Can't you do an extended version of Melissan Battle Theme?

@GoresVire

2 жыл бұрын

One day, yea. It's not that hard at all - you can do what I did with any old DAW program. Just cut, copy, and splice.

@diogobarreto4407

2 жыл бұрын

@@GoresVire thanks for the reply! In fact I already extended it, but I had a hard time trying to find a good point of the song to start it again. In general I look for extended versions on youtube because people here are a lot better than me at this lol

I need a mod that makes this play when you fight Sarevok in BG1.

@GoresVire

3 жыл бұрын

I believe that is called "opening KZread in another window".

@GalvatronRodimus

2 жыл бұрын

@@GoresVire update: I MADE a mod that makes this play when you fight Sarevok in BG1. I don't know how to use WEIDU though, so I can't share it just yet.

@GoresVire

2 жыл бұрын

@@GalvatronRodimus While I like this theme a lot, I don't think it really fits the Sarevok fight. You're barely in the teens and you still don't quite understand everything you're capable of. The Bhaalspawn theme is more "epic" than BG1 has any right to be, both narratively and cinematically.

@GalvatronRodimus

2 жыл бұрын

@@GoresVire Yeah, that's totally fair. On the other hand, though, I feel Sarevok deserves a unique final boss theme that doesn't play anywhere else in the game.

From where you took the picture??

1:05 :D

After killing whichever Bhaalspawn, who else would purposely put one of their characters attacking another just to hear this music again?! :) (obviously before youtube years)

The Bhaalspawn story is epic, it is shame, that canon GW is like some crying little gay trying to hide his power or whatever, I always play neutral evil GW to unlock my Bhaalspawn powers and be super ultra immortal...

@mielliot13

7 жыл бұрын

Is that the one from the books? Yeah, he was awful, literally the only useful thing he did was shut Kahlid up. Admittedly the best way to do that is to also kick Jaheira out, but to each their own I suppose

@shadoweddragonfilms4424

6 жыл бұрын

Look up 'Tales of the Bhaalspawn' on Fanfiction.net . It's, of course, fanfiction, but it's so well written and put together that it's become my canon interpretation of the game in writing.

@wkcia

6 жыл бұрын

It's CHARNAME to you Sir!

@theskoomazingdunmer8749

3 жыл бұрын

damn, five years later, this comment is edgy as fuck

@toprak3479

3 жыл бұрын

@@theskoomazingdunmer8749 The "crying little gay" and "super ultra immortal" parts put the cherry on top.

I HATE THIS SONG BECAUSE..개새끼 시발.....