Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

I bought this a long time ago after hearing so many good things about it, and I've been playing it on an off for about 3 years before actually finishing it. This isn't because the game is bad, but because while I am away for work, I only have a laptop with me, and older games are much easier to run than anything new, so I mainly play such games when I'm away from my main PC. How's this game? As the title says, slow at times, tedious here and there, but that's to be expected from an old game. Exploration is fun, but not as rewarding as I'd like it to be, and the enemies get quite easy to kill after you level up enough. Before that, however, everything's a challenge, which I consider to be a good thing, since I constantly had to use potions or buffs to kill anything that was a few levels above my characters. The story is good, the characters are interesting and the world itself is intriguing. I see some bad comments about this edition of the game, with some people saying that you would be better off playing the original version of the game, but I don't really know about that. For someone who never played this before, I think the EE is good enough. Besides, if the original version has any problem at all with new systems, I doubt anyone's gonna spend time trying to fix anything for a game that at first sight doesn't look that interesting. Overall, this is a great game. Yes, there are gonna be things here and there that won't be that good, such as mechanics and graphics, but that's to be expected for such an old game. However, if you're willing to look past those things and give this game a proper chance, I believe that once you finish it, alongside the DLC, it will stay with you for quite and while.

Have no complaints about the game, just the new "enhanced edition " it's not enhanced! I prefer the original 1x thousand times!! They messed up with the graphics for sure, in exchange they added background noise and few extra capabilities but it's not worth the price! HOW TO ADD THE CLASSIC VERSION AGAIN: - Go to the library > click Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition - Go to Serials > open the link provided > Click "redeem" > DONE! Congrats!! You have the classic "Baldur's Gate Edition"!

last patch bug? can't play in multi, when we sleep => somone bug when we save somone bug and can't use his char plz patch the patch :s

This is the game that got me into Dungeons & Dragons, and in turn tabletop gaming as a whole. I loved this game back in the day, and I still love it just as much, but I do have some issues. The writing is top-notch. Probably the second-best out of all of the Infinity Engine games (the best being Planescape: Torment). Every character, even the annoying ones, are very well written (at least in the original game). A lot of the areas on the map are just empty. It's a slog to go through an unnamed map area in the hopes of finding anything interesting (and sometimes you do, which is why you do it) to have to walk all over the area to remove the fog of war and then move on to the next area to do the same. They fixed this in later Infinity Engine games, which I'm grateful for. Real-time with pause is a BAD mechanic and they never should've went with it. Combat happens in real-time...sort of. Initiative order is still there, so in a way it's still turn-based, but discerning whose turn it is and who's next is I'm pretty sure not even possible, so it makes tactical play irrelevant. Your combat encounters will rely 100% on RNG. This Enhanced Edition even has some really great new improvements on the original, but it also has a handful of new characters and some locations, not all of which are on par with the quality of the original game. But a few badly written parts in the Enhanced Edition doesn't take away from the greatness that is the rest of the game. If you're even a little bit of a D&D fan, or even if you're just wondering what D&D is all about, then play this. Especially with 3 coming out soon.

I recommend everyone play Baldur's Gate, but not this version. The "Enhanced Edition" rerelease of Baldur's Gate has many convenience features that make the game easier to play from a modern standpoint, but at arguably too high a cost. Beamdog has not only removed around half of all the cinematics in the game, but also replaced the other half with (usually) pleasant-looking but shorter and blander substitutes. The humor, character and dynamicity of the originals are gone, unless you restore them with mods. This is a theme that carries over to the rest of the Beamdog's "enhancements" as well—most come with a cost of character, usability, and/or vision. Someone from Beamdog must have a chip on their shoulder about BG1, because they oddly and for no good discernible reason went through the entire game and redesigned many small gameplay systems and content with little to no regard to BioWare's vision or understanding of the original design's purpose. These changes include removing the outer gates of Baldur's Gate and other such arbitrary measures. They also changed the original engine to the BG2 one, and neglected to port over the original character sprites, so the rerelease uses the sprites from the wrong game. In addition, they forgot to restore many smaller engine features from the original game, like ambient character sounds for NPCs and creatures. In many ways, this is version is inferior to the original. In version 2.0, they remade the UI engine from scratch, and in the process they introduced a humongous number of bugs and usability issues to it, and in over four (!) years, they haven't even started working on fixing the problems they've created, despite early on promising to the player community that they would do just that. Since then, they've started a large number of other projects and extracted almost all development resources from the Infinity Engine games, ensuring that the countless bugs and regressions they've added to them will never be fixed.