In my book Baldur's Gate 2 is one of the greatest pieces of entertainment media ever released. Everything from the great story to the top notch voice acting and charters and rock solid game play. If you love RPGs get it.

The Myth Collection (3 of them) would be Nice. (Made by Bungie). Also Thief Collection (3 of them), The whole Origin Collection (Ultima 1-9), Wing Commander Collection, System Shock Collection, Deus Ex Collection. Also Finish out the Might and Magic RPG Collection with Numbers 7,8, and 9. The Wizardry Collection 1-8 would be great too.

The time limit existed for them, not for you.

You're thinking of these characters as if they exist to serve you. This isn't your run-of-the-mill RPG where party members are robots created to carry out your every command. This is Baldur's Gate. The characters have reasons for doing (or not doing) everything, including turning on you in battle or insisting on a particular course of action. That's what the "role-playing" aspect of the game is all about.

Regarding your loss of the pair, it is probably just as well. Montaron is Neutral Evil and Xzar is Chaotic Evil, which basically means they are selfish, self-centered, and not above doing whatever it takes to get to their goal. They have a specific mission and a time-limit to get there, and you weren't keeping up with their schedule. To be even more specific... If you know anything about the Zhentarim, you know that they aren't patient with hirelings who fail to fulfill their contracts. Given the choice between continuing on with their mission and being dead, I'd say those two picked the better option.

If you really want to enjoy BG and BG2, you will need to pay attention to the alignment and personal interests of those in your party. The other option is to "dumb the game down" by using a hack to turn your party members into automatons, but that sort of defeats the purpose of playing an RPG.
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-Khalaq

Ah Zelda, what a wonderful series....even if I haven't played it much. I did play the original 1 and 2 a bit...I loved shooting at monsters from afar for fear my health would dip below 100% and i'd have to hack at them up close like some bloody butcher and risk further injury.

Don't you ever wish Zelda was a girl though? Sometimes I think it would be better if Zelda was a girl. What do you think? (hehe...waits for answer)

Zelda is already a girl.

Zelda...is a girl. Guess which one of these two people is named Zelda? :P

Zelda was/is a Girl. She was/is the Princess of Hyrule. The Main Protagonist of the Legend of Zelda Series is a Wood Elf named "Link". They Even had a Horrid Cartoon that ran 13 Episodes and and few Appearances on the Super Mario Brothers Super Show and Captain N Cartoon as Well.

I'd like to point out to everyone that just because we want games does NOT mean GOG has the means to gain rights for them. Keep in mind that GOG has to first gain distribution rights to a particular game(s) or franchise before they can legally offer it. If you watched the videos and read interviews around the time when GOG Beta closed, they made it painfully obvious that convincing "those who OWN the rights to games" to allow GOG to redistribute the games is a daunting task. I am astounded that they managed to get Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, and Neverwinter Nights. All three are MASSIVE AAA Games. I can't begin to imagine the amount of work and persuasion that was required for GOG to gain distribution rights for these series.

I am not saying it's wrong to want or ask for System Shock 1,2 but please realize that GOG is fighting an uphill battle in getting distribution rights for ANY GAME. If you play any modern PC games you'll notice that nearly every major game has DRM. This is accepted and considered the norm at this point in time. GOG is extremely bold with their "No DRM" Policy. This definitely works against them in several ways. I'd wager that 9/10 of their requests are denied right off the bat based on the "No DRM" policy alone.

I'd wager this is a key element in why they have not released System Shock 1,2. It's obvious tons of people here have wanted system shock 2. It's also obvious it's been requested probably a couple MILLION times at this point. It's not that GOG is not listening, it likely EA is cocking things up. EA is probably thinking GOG is batshit insane for not having DRM. I doubt we'll see either System Shock for a while... One can hope though.

In closing: Thanks for another Crazy awesome release GOG, I can almost see you guys getting Never Winter Nights 2 seeing as you just got Baldur's Gate 2. Good Luck and keep up the great work.

It's funny how much I just troololololololed you guys........it's like the biggest Zelda meme in the book. You guys do frequent the chans, right? Oh wells......more fun for me then.

I also wish Metroid was a girl btw.....not that'd be hot.

I always thought it was odd that I couldn't get into this game even though I love KOTOR and Forgotten Realms. I could never make it past the genie in the opening dungeon. :(

Can't download BG2. How many exactly must weight files setup_baldurs_gate_2.exe, setup_baldurs_gate_2-1.bin and setup_baldurs_gate_2-2.bin ?
Cause, I download them 3 times and always installer was denied bin-files. With bonus materials everything was normal. And worst at all, I can't add a queue to GOGdonloader. May be here some alter way to add queue to him? Like manual file-editing?
Thank you

I think GOG's popularity may be responsible for some short downtime. :P

BG 2 is One of the Best games you could ever hope to play. Now i can only hope that GOG gets Dune II some time.

Now that i think about it, perhaps GOG should get Halloween Harry as well. Good days playing that on my 386sx 16.

So now System Shock 2 please...