Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

This classic has a griping story a excellent soundtrack and almost infinite variety in classes items and branching paths. the drawback is the game engine is sometimes clunky and in some places limited. the final act is a bit uninspired . that said it still better than most of new games, compeling and greatly replayable. overall still in the top. 9/10

Yeah, I know it's golden classic, I remember the hype when it was released back in 1998. I respect Beamdog efforts to make it playable on modern computers. But by any modern standards this game is tedious and full of bad design. Huge square maps without any interesting encounters or useful loot, repetitive combat which is either "ready your bows and kill five gnolls to get astounding 100XP" (99% of encounters) or "reload the encounter where you've been pwned before, precast anything you've got and pray to the God of Random Saving Throws". Most classes are useless; until the BG2: SoA had been released everybody played Fighter dual-classed to Mage. Most NPCs are weak, some can be recruited as an inseparable couple only, evil NPCs leave if the party reputation is too high (yeah, criminals prefer to be known as such and love to be attacked on sight, right?). The eponymous city consisted of 9 square maps, and some of those maps are divided into two parts by city wall, just because designers were too lazy to place the city wall between maps, not across them (and to reach the other part of the same map you have to leave the map and approach it from another side). I played the BG: EE once as a part of EE Trilogy and would hate to do it again. Play BG2: EE instead, it's much better in every aspect. If you miss those stat-increasing tomes from the first game, use EE Keeper to add those 8 points. If you want more and better combat, play Icewind Dale instead. If you want to roleplay, play Planescape: Torment. This game is like some movies everybody calls GOAT and nobody watches.

It's the best game out there.

All the reviews that i see for this game is that it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I have to wonder is all that praise the game gets from people who look at it from a nostalgic eye or is it really just that great and as a newcomer to the PC baulders gate, that answer is no, the game is broken under the gise that it's D&D, i have about 8 hours 30 min in the game and all i have gotten to on CORE AD&D rules is the inn like 20 min into the game, now you may say that invalidates all my critisims, but no that renforces them, this game cheats you in all the wrong ways, enemies do random crits that insta-kill your party members, though not like they need the crits to do that since your party members start with such small amounts of HP that if they fart too loudly they'll kill themselfs. Thats my biggest and only problem with this game it the damage that things do, kobolds and other trash mobs shouldn't hit more than a paladin who has a plus 2 to hit right out of the gate, not saying don't make the game have no challange but, you can't put all these enemies in the game who are constantly better than you. I had a thief with 8 HP who got 1 shotted and died in the second area wasn't even a crit so im not really sure how people are giving this game such high priase when it's this unbalanced.

This has always been a great game. The enhancements made are outstanding except for one thing I noticed, the waterfall was missed. I think they forgot to work on that. Other than that, you young people that were born after this game was made should play it. You'll love it.