Posted on: April 1, 2016

LiefLayer

Games: 730 Reviews: 75

Italian translation is ready but they

Italian translation was ready one year ago, but they only promise to release it when SoD expansion was ready. Today they release SoD expansion with BG EE and BG EE II patch, but they decide to not include the ready italian translation (that was already ready one year ago). They have no respect for the free work of the translators (yes it was a free translation), that's why they don't deserve any more money. I will not buy any games from beamdog again. Italiano la traduzione italiana era pronta già un anno fa, sul forum ufficiale hanno promesso che l'avrebbero rilasciata con l'espansione SoD. Oggi hanno rilasciato quell'espansione e le patch per BG EE 1 e 2, ma della traduzione italiana di BG EE 2 non c'è alcuna traccia. Non hanno avuto alcun rispetto per il lavoro gratuito dei traduttori (avete capito bene, hanno avuto le traduzioni in italiano gratuitamente) quindi non meritano neanche un centesimo. Mi sono pentito di aver acquistato queste EE, ma sicuramente da me beamdog non vedrà più niente. Invito la communità italiana a ribellarsi a questa assurdità

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Posted on: December 17, 2018

Jazzkovsky

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Games: 127 Reviews: 2

Enhanced and finally bugfree (Dec. 2018)

The most important thing first: The game is practically bugfree now. It might not have been shortly after release, but it is now. I played the orignal version (both modded and unmodded) a lot over the years and here is what I think about EE: The game simply looks more beautiful now. That goes for both the game itself, the local maps and the worldmap. Game elements, like character creation and level up screens have been impoved. Also, it is much easier to get the informations about your characters that you want now, as the chacter screen has benn completely overhauled and restructered. All of that helps a great deal and actually makes a huge difference. You can now choose to automatically highlight all interactable items such as tables, doors and chests automatically plus you can now finally abort cutscenes. Both features are very useful especially when you intend to play the game more than once. There are now several new companions, new romance options, new locations and new items. All of this blends very well into the world of Baldur's Gate and stays true to D&D. One last thing: It is true that some of the improvements were previously available as mods, but many of those are not easily accessible any longer (especially with the download section of gibberlings being broken for months now and shs being down eintirely). Also, with the EE you don't have to spend hours of finding mods, installing them and checking compatibility just in order to have a bugfree game. You can ceratainly still mod EE, if you want though. There are tons of mods available for the EE. Overall I do easily prefer the EE over the original version, and after reading all those negative reviews, that was a true surprise. To be fair, a lot of those things might have changed during the last few years, but Baldur's Gate 2 EE is certainly a great game now and a truly impoved version of the original game.

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Posted on: October 17, 2014

ghostc

Games: 345 Reviews: 5

Not a good Christmas present

To be brief: BG2 Complete + widescreen is all you need for playing BG and BG2. I played only BG: EE (this means BG + TotSC) and I didn't find any bugs, but the additional value to the original games was so poor (in comparison to the big big world), that it was not worth the price. There is no reason to polish something that doesn't need it (except the widescreen resolution :)).

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Posted on: December 4, 2014

jpettine

Games: 25 Reviews: 1

Do yourself a favor and mod yourself.

If you don't own the original title, or lost your discs, go but this right now: http://www.gog.com/game/baldurs_gate_2_complete You can get it as part of the D&D collections which they seem to have a sale for every winter and spring. Find it at a sale time and you get it for about 4 bucks. Even at retail, it's only 10 bucks. No point in spending more on this "enhanced version" which essentially just does the things that numerous modders have already done over the past 14 years the game has existed. There are retexturing packs, new quests, characters, complete immersion mods, you name it, already out there. Most of them far less buggy than the new features in the "enhanced" version. Sure, it takes some time to figure out the installs, and there's the potential to break things if you don't do it right, but in the end it's worth it. Just keep a "clean" install on drive at all times, and make sure you back up before you add new pieces. In the end, you'll be far happier going this route, than the buggy mess the "enhanced" version is. Maybe someday it'll be worth the price, but for now, it's not even close.

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Posted on: October 9, 2022

_Ryan_2017

Games: 138 Reviews: 31

One of the best RPG's of all time.

I've been gaming for around 30 years now since the late 80's, played most RPG's worthy of note, on many different platforms and machines. This is in my top 5 games of all time. Everything is absolutely spot on for this game, the story, music, ambience, characters, RPG elements (DND ruleset) - Character customisation and progression, really flexible character builder. Tons of quests, NPC's actually come up to your character and offer you quests, most games these days do not have that feature. Most games will have static NPC's that you have to hunt down. This game has real life as you walk around the cities and hear the hustle & bustle, people walking up to you either to give information, give a quest, rob your party and attack you, or maybe assassins sent by the main antagonist? You never really know what's going to happen and there's a sense of vulnerability within your party, even a fully outfitted party can have trouble, especially early in the game. Progression and learning new abilities and spells feels really rewarding, including the sheer amount of cool loot in the game. Even right at the start you will find cool and interesting items you can equip your characters, giving the gameplay and combat a dynamic and interesting feel. The game really shines with the story and will keep you wanting more. It's hard to explain without giving the game a good go, anyone who has said 'it didn't interest them' are usually people who only played for about an hour, you have to play it and get out the first dungeon, then travel around a bit, especially through the main big city, 'Amn'.

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