Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition

The BG series is nothing short of praise, which I will not reiterate when the real question is: why play the originals now that you could play BG3 with its final patch? The answer: it just keeps getting better since decades thanks to an ever so determined modding community. The skill and quality at which new content is created raise the whole game beyond the average ratings. What awaits is an epic journey from humble beginnings to facing gods. Which can be shaped exactly to your liking once you understand the game after one vanilla play-through. Or so people say, but I have to disagree. Despite its greatness it is not without flaw in its original state. So pick these up for your first adventure (search for BGEE + mod name): - Dragonspear UI++ [if anything you want a modern UI or suffer inventory management] - BG2 Banter Pack [to modern standards you need this to bring your companions to life or wonder where all the praise is coming from] - IEP Extended Banter [same as above] Final note about the buzz around the enhanced editions: they are a truly fantastic gift to the community. The enhanced engine is what enabled modders what was previously thought impossible and in that sense keeps on giving fabulous improvements to us players. However, with them came new content which many [myself included] consider badly integrated (this does not mean bad in itself). Add to this some abysmal marketing and community management, and you may see why some die-hard fans have come to peace yet. But fret not, as modders also found a remedy for this to restore the original experience: - Convenient Enhanced Edition NPCs [tone down or completely remove unfitting content] Enjoy your first run! And if you get infected like many others, it will only be the beginning to merging BG1 and BG2 together (or even IWD and NWN), push the AI to new limits with SCS, and tweak the game into perfection to last you a lifetime.

I played this game excessive amounts when I was a kid, just a great game made great by large part because of the story and writing. The EE version adds new characters and writing, its horrible just bad so bad I would 1 star this review but can't bring myself to do that as if you ignore all new 'content' the great game is there. I have the benefit of knowing what is part of the real game so its easy for me to ignore all the added dialog and poor just horribly written new characters.

I bought this game (15 december 2024) and it doesn't include original version, as description says: "Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition includes the classic Baldur's Gate 2 Complete. More information here." I followed article from "here" link: https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/9003815382813-Baldur-s-Gate-2-Complete-how-to-access-the-classic-version?product=gog And it doesn't work - there is no serial key for original version... I bought this game only for original version, but I didn't get it... Please fix it!

This game is one of the few games I have played through multiple times and is the only game I have played through 8+ times. I love this game. Story is good, charaters are good, gameplay is good, all around a great game.

We aint talking about it 25 years later for nothing.