Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear

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2.6

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Posted on: December 21, 2022

OldSkull87

Games: 47 Reviews: 5

OK, but too pricey

Nice Addon, especially voice acting of companions. Finally they have some "interiors". Not much, but compared to BG1 it's a lot. Especially love Baeloth short dialogues (with Minsc) and his comments. Story-wise and Role Playing: level of Icewind Dale and ToB. It lacks freedom, but is more than enough to push the game forward, but it's just too small. BTW: Only crash I had was when I made Alt-Tab - game jsut couldn't return to it's normal state. So no crashes, because BG2 has sometimes same issues with Alt+Tab. Just Engine problem. "cdtweaks" mods work like charm. Problems: - Ending has plot holes - you are unable to use _important_ information you learned in both "meeting in woods", last meeting with the Hooded Man in the castle and final talks in the city (so no spoilers). - One companion is built during the game to trust, and finally he/she in fact betrays you - Normal Price is a joke for that short game with that obsolete graphics.

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Posted on: March 30, 2024

Sintra5

Games: 103 Reviews: 3

Decent revival

It's been a little bit since I played this, but something possessed me to leave a review when I saw it while browsing Gog's catalogue. I thought it was fine, overall. The main plot is very silly, and the new characters are pretty shallow. Where the writing improves is in its expansion of existing characters and themes. Companions like Khalid and Jaheira are given more depth than they had in BG1, and the dream sequences were surprisingly well written, being on par with Black Isle's writing for most of them. Combat encounters were reasonably challenging and well designed. Despite being an expansion of BG1, it feels more like a lead-in to BG2. Originally, the jump from 1 to 2 was quite jarring. Without spoiling anything, Siege of Dragonspear does an adequate job of bridging the gap and setting up important characters and themes that were explored in 2 but not in 1. The length is what will probably let you down, being about 30 hours on average. I think they probably could've succeeded a lot more if this had been shorter, more focused and kept the tone of BG1 before developing into the tone BG2 had. As it is, the characters are too talkative and the story is very tropey and lacks self-awareness and nuance. If it seems like I'm being hard on the game for giving it 4 stars, I'll admit that my opinion is closer to 3.5, but that's not an option, so I went with 4, since there's a lot of 1 star reviews that I don't think were posted as good faith critiques. Such is life when there's a trans character for over a minute of screentime. My opinion of that character is the same as my opinion for all of Beamdog's original characters; shallow and perfunctory to the story. That said, her being trans doesn't magically make her worse than everyone else. The tl;dr is that the writing ranges from kinda bad to surprisingly good, the combat portions are solid, and it does a decent job of leading into BG2, but it's longer than it needs to be.

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Posted on: April 27, 2022

Drummermean

Verified owner

Games: 203 Reviews: 4

Bugder's Bug: Bug of Bugbug

This game is exceptionally buggy. Extraordinarily buggy. Cannot leave the first dungeon. Imoen does not appear on either level. AVOID!

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Posted on: November 1, 2022

novous

Games: 727 Reviews: 24

You've got to be kidding me

$20 "on sale" for a DLC missionpack with bad reviews from crashes and content? I paid less for the entirety of Skyrim.

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Posted on: January 12, 2025

Kobrakina

Verified owner

Games: 299 Reviews: 10

Great BG addition!

I was reluctant to play this game because of the reviews, but I'm glad I decided to give it a try. No longer will I pay attention to the reviews from the peanut gallery! It's a great bridge between BG and BG2. I loved the story and how it unfolded. The combat was traditional BG fun, but often with way higher numbers, which made spells like Fireball extra destructive. I think the side quests should be called out. There were a couple of larger ones that were very good! If you like old skool D&D adventures, for sure you'll enjoy this game. I understand some of the criticism. Yes, this game is more linear than others, but that didn't detract from my enjoyment. The various reviews for this game are unfair and don't follow the proper guidelines. If you liked Baldur's Gate, you'll like this!

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