Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

I never played this game when I was younger but it was always on my radar. When I saw an enhanced edition, I used that as an excuse to try it. Baldur's gate holds up really well as a game and the enhanced edition makes it a good game in 2017. I know some of the improvements such as quicksave hotkeys, modern journal and zooming. Those made the game playable for me. Would it have been possible with mods? Probably. But I don't really care. This package deal makes the game great for someone who doesn't spend much time figuring out which mods to use, especially not for a new game.

Baldurs Gate. Classic. Baldurs Gate EE on sale for 3.99. Thanks very much!

First version of Enhanced Edition was bugged and not worth it. But after some patches it really made it. While I'm writing these words it is the best version ever released, really polished: enhanced graphics, gameplay, interface and extra features such as zoom (love it!). Highly recommended game for old-school-lovin' gamers :-)

With all the patches the EE is now the best way to play BG. No bugs at all and perfect graphics scaling. + if you are playng with a notebook, you have an incredible multigesture support : - pinch to ZOOM! - 2 fingers slide to move the map ... you re not going to miss the mouse if you play outside! I played the old saga and now it s better and 100% polished. The only thing you can miss are the old cutscenes (evocative) i hate the new cutscenes :(

I've seen multiple people praise these games many times, going on and on about how incredible they are. As I expected, it's just D&D; which means that it's garbage. I'm an avid RPG player and GM and I've spent the last decade learning tens of systems, and to this day I can't understand how D&D has gotten to the point of popularity it's reached. It's boring, uninspired and so heavily reliant on chance for the most basic of things that it's an arbitrary slog to go through at best and an RNG nightmare at worst. You have your hands tied in every single aspect of your character creation; most stats applications are arbitrary and putting a daily limit on skill uses has been and will always be the worst design decision ever conceived. Baldur's Gate is not only all of those things, but since it's 2nd ed. D&D it's even MORE of an RNG nightmare where your choices are even more limited from the getgo. Case in point, early on the game, you're attacked by an assassin called Tarnesh. He's an extremely strong enemy and it's unlikely you'll be able to beat him if you're not well prepared, so the best choice is to prompt him to begin combat and then have the nearby city guards to deal with him. FOUR. TIMES. Four times he killed at least 6 guards before killing me, until my patience ran out. In any proper game system, you'd have a way to counter it, but this is D&D. Your ability to come up with a solution doesn't matter, only the whims of a dice roll. That, or willfully cheesing the game, which I refuse out of principle; if the game isn't well designed, I shouldn't have to use exploits to surpass its shortcomings. If you want to play a CRPG, go look for Pillars of Eternity or Divinity Original Sin; at least they're a more interesting in their background and lore. For anyone who plays TTRPGs, do yourselves a favor, forget D&D and play an actual game like Riddle of Steel/Blade of the Iron Throne, Mythras, HarnMaster or Blades In The Dark.