Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

My first experience playing Baldur's Gate was from a multi-disc folio in 1999. I revisited the EE version in early 2020, and it has come a long way. I love turn-based RPGs with an emphasis on story. Baldur's Gate gave that, and I remembered it fondly, but never fondly enough to play the sequel. With EE, though, came Siege of Dragonspear. Oft-maligned, SoD adds a few things that finally made me start playing the sequel. First, it bridges the gap. When SoD ends, you are thirsty to find out what happens next. It not only resolves the story from BG1, but it makes the gear-erasing opening scenes of BG2 palatable by making them part of the story. Another thing SoD and EE bring to the mix is fresh new NPCs. I never cared for Minsc. But with Khalid and Jaheira, I was left to fill out my party with someone I just didn't want. EE gave me plenty of heroic options that brought a wealth of story. SoD scattered them to the four winds and made me hunt them back again, but I DID get them back; I still felt like I was playing "my group" by the end. SoD also gives an epic conclusion to the story of BG1. There's nothing wrong with the end of BG1, but the finale we get in SoD is epic by comparison. As a lifelong DM, it's the ending I would give my tenth-level party. Players may be nervous that there's been a lot of talk about a single transgender NPC. Take this: I read six paragraphs of a dwarf talking about how he needs new boots or he's just sure he'll die in his next fight. Then I read three paragraphs of a woman explaining how meaningful it was that I returned something to her. Both were explanations of the McGuffin hunt that I had just completed. Both were as meaningful to the story. The only way to be offended is to be offended that this NPC simply exists. The fact that mere existence was offensive to so many is the real story. For twenty years I went without playing BG2. Because of EE, I have begun and already progressed into the second chapter...and I have zero regrets.

One of the best RPG's I have ever played. If you love D&D, this is it.

what a great game i played this game back in the day and i really enjoyed it and the enhanced one is just as good in my opinion with a few extra characters and a few extra quests is always welcome in my opinion but if you prefer the original then this comes with a code so you can claim the original also

I love this game so much. I've beat it at least 5 times in my life. Maybe more. I learned about this game in 1999... I was in 8th grade. My friend and I were in detention with our social studies teacher. We were talking about Diablo 1 and how good it was. Our teacher overheard us talking and laughed at us and told us about Baldur's Gate and how much better of a game it was compared to Diablo lol. He was a good teacher haha! I was intrigued, so I bought the game... and it blew my mind. That was my first experience with the D&D universe. It's just so good. Idk what else to say. Every good isometric RPG in the past 20 years has been inspired/influenced by Baldur's Gate in one way or another. This game is the godfather of isometric RPG's. If you never played Baldur's Gate, JUST DO IT! You won't regret it. Ugh... so good.

I don't own and never played Enchanced Edition. But since you can't review Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga anymore on GOG I will do it here. My first memory of this game is from high school. When my friends played it and talk about all the time. Somehow I haven't played it then, but it stayed in my memory and 10 years ago I finally tried it. Since then I have completed it four times. I could write about it's charming soundtrack (I still listen), beautiful detailed graphic, replayability and well done D&D mechanic and world implementations. But what keep me most is it's slow, quiet, peaceful experience. Countless hours of travel through the wilderness, forests, shores and mountains that fill the space between villages, towns and cities like Baldur's Gate itself. That feeling you really travel through the real world and nature. It's almost like reading Lord of the Rings books. I know there is Baldur's Gate 2 with more of everything, but first game has its unique quality and vibe which for I love it. It's similar as Fallout compares to Fallout 2 in this regards.