Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

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.

Beamdog's mediocre remake had no chances to compete with the classic so they had it removed from the store. Do yourself a favor and play the original.

Neverending CRPG, can be replayed 1000's times, great music, atmoshpere. Low level rpg perfection.

If approached with the proper expectation (old UI, slow paced), one will find a great game. The setting is standard fantasy, well at least nowadays. Back then, before the Lord of the Rings movies, all of this was quite niche. In any case, there is nothing wrong with standard fantasy :).