Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance

This is a 20 year old PS 2 game that you can play perfectly well on an emulator. Seriously, 30$ for this is just a rip off.

I played many years ago BGDA2 for the PS2 and it's one of my favourite games of all time, this prequell lacks of everything: the balance of the enemies is non-existant, armor is a joke and the gameplay can be described as "hit&heal&run". Annoying AF. Also, the fact that costs 30€ for a 20+ year old game sucks

While I have yet to buy this specific version of the game, in the day I had this, finished it more than once on Gamecube, and I have the HD re-release on the Switch now. What's to say in brief about this? Do you like Diablo? This is Diablo meets D&D. Great spread of classic D&D tropes, enemies, and terrains. So much customizable weapons, magics, armor and more, that extra + something may be what saves you from the next encounter or mobbing. Lots of varied locations with some really solid detail that still even now fairly nicely holds up. The game isn't a push over, but also not as hard as the very very slow grind of the classic D&D style point and click on this site for some years now. Similar but not, played with a controller as it was designed as such, so it's faster, more precise control and attack, defense, and retreat. This is an understated game I loved on the old system in the day, even the crazy isometric lesser version GBA had too (yes it's a thing, an isometric thing.) Yes $30 seems a tad steep to start given the age, but that's what it goes for with the recent console re-releases too so I get it for parity sake. Maybe given its on PC it scaled well so the remade HD textures were less of a concern, or it's lazy? Either way the elements of this game are fantastic, and I hope the sequels appear as I was utterly disgusted and infuriated 20 years ago when the sequel hit everything BUT the cube which was so so wrong. Here's hoping this does well and the sequel arrives as I'll be on that out of the box.

a very Lackluster, lazy and barebones PS2 port... for HOW MUCH??

I absolutely love this game. I own it on every platform. I have no problem with the game...except for the port for using a controller. Push the movement stick up and it rotates the camera left. Push it down and it rotates the camera right. Push the movement stick left? The character moves -up-. Right? The character moves -down-. The right stick, normally used for camera movement? Does absolutely nothing. I have no idea who was in charge of programming the controller mapping, but they did a terrible job and it is currently unplayable with a controller because of it - you can't even remap the movement part of the controller setup. Playing with a keyboard works fine...but that isn't why I bought the game. I bought it specifically because it had 'controller support', which is broken. Note: For reference, I was using an X-Box One controller with a USB PC dongle.