Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear

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2.6

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Posted on: April 4, 2016

COMBAT ADEPT

Games: 29 Reviews: 1

Poor writing makes for nonsensical story

Baldur's Gate was noteworthy for its open world, for its brilliant writing, and for its strict adherence to the spirit of the Forgotten Realms setting. This abomination lacks all of those things: -You're shoehorned into a ridiculous quest that makes no sense at all. Whether you're playing as a good character or an evil one, the story gives you very little incentive to proceed with your quest. The writers probably think that this is "nuanced", but I think that it's just really sloppy storytelling. At all times, I felt apathetic about the main quest -- and utterly ambivalent towards "The Shining Lady", which I certainly can't say about Sarevok, Irenicus, and Mellisandre! -As far as I can tell, there's absolutely no open world to explore -- just sequential map segments that are extremely frustrating and annoying, as Beamdog implemented some monster-spawning "feature" that leads to swarms of low-level monsters attacking your party at random intervals. -The writers force SJW nonsense into the game, with a "transexual" character, Minsc making fun of Gamergate, a refugee crisis, and so forth. Terrible. There may have been good ways to write these issues into the story, but they were not implemented. Instead, we're faced with ham-fisted propaganda. Just abysmal.

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Posted on: September 21, 2024

null618

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Games: 227 Reviews: 2

BG I +

new snakes, new QoL improvements, new magic items tied to quests, new powerful class, not so strong story, but it's probably passable - five stars worthy sequel to BG I, only did i mention the story is not completely great but nevermind *get it on sale*

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Posted on: November 28, 2021

alexak

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Games: Reviews: 1

It will mess up your interface

This DLC actually makes the base game worse before you even get to the new content. Once installed, Siege of Dragonspear will change BG:EE's interface to a new, dark-themed version. Unfortunately, the new interface has difficulty scaling things properly and it messes up the positioning of numbers such as amount of gold, hit points, THAC0 etc (at least for me; running Linux at 1920x1200). And of course there is no obvious way to say "no, thanks, give me my old interface back." Ugh. I'm giving 2 stars because I might end up liking the actual campaign yet...

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Posted on: July 16, 2023

Demiurge.542

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Games: 659 Reviews: 16

HEED THE WARNINGS. This is trash fanfic

TL;DR: This is game is to Baldur's Gate what the show "Ring of Power" is to "Lord of the Rings" books. Long Review: The writing is absolute trash. You're basically on an on rails quest with the illusion of choice. It's like if you get to choose between three doors that all lead to one door and a hallway. It will also ruin your memories of the old games. Imoen is basically Neera, which means now she's not unique and just as annoying. She also doesn't have her spunky spoiled behavior like bg1 or her jaded attitude in bg2. now she's like some ultra caring person who doesn't match her origins. Worse yet, they ruined Viconia. She was always an evil 🐩, but she had charm and I loved pretending to have a romance between her and my child of bhaal. Now she's just straight out unpleasant. Nothing redeeming like in BG2, or even the limited dialogue of bg1. I mean I usually play as female, being one in real life. But i wore that girdle of gender change just for her. Now after seeing her in dragonspear I dropped her like a hot rock. Also she and some of the others have to speak every other second. The problem is they say the same thing multiple in a row. as for the story, it's unbearably forced. I have no real connection as to why I want to do anything. O and it recycles a character from BG2 in a very "ugh, really?" contrived manner. It's like ok Mysterious hooded guy who also speaks to my enemy and I can't attack. I can see your plan, but like I gotta play along. as far as the "woke" stuff, I'm part of the LGBT community and cringed a couple of times, but it's largely easy to miss. The game is just boring. I will give credit where credit is do. I commend them for the voice acting and being able to make a game with software this old. Finally, this will also change your BG1 UI to an ugly blackrock texture that looks like it was made in MS PAINT.

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Posted on: August 6, 2019

Verified owner

Games: 0 Reviews: 2

This game is just... ..."eh".

I must say I first played this expansion LONG after the discussions about it were all over the place. I am a fan of the Baldur's Gate games so I had a reasonable interest in this game. The fact that it was supposed to bridge both BGs was kinda weird but I still wanted to know how it would play out. More importantly, I played this right after completing BG1EE, using the same character. So this is more or less a "complete" BGEE experience, although it lacks the perspective of the changes introduced by more recent & critical patches. I gotta say this is kinda OK overall. It reminds me more of IWD than BG, with is OK too. IWD had this thing where the best part of the games were tucked away in some dank dungeon,waiting for you to find them, and Siege has a bit of this which was very welcome (especially a dragon fight agains arguably unprepared adventurers). In fact, I'd say the parts that are "outside" of Siege's main plot are the most interesting ones, because oh boy is the plot of this game so effing dull. The edge of having an aasimar playign evil + the confrontation of two godspawn feels wasted in the pens of Beamdog's writers. And it's not for lack of space, since the game is still reasonably long, although obviously nowhere near aslong as BG1 or 2, but it still had enough room to give us something more than just "go fight mean woman". Companions are dull. VERY dull. Corwin is as interesting as a piece of soggy white bread. The viking bard feels nigh parody material. The gnome is a gnome (he's actually a decent companion, gameplay-wise, mind you). I can't remember the others, actually. The changes to Safana seem parodic too... Like, her voice actress is FORCING it so hard it made me kick her out of the party. And you can ignore MIzhena, but I'd argue that her predicament makes little sense when people can will themselves into doing world-destroying magic. It's a bearable game, nothing too bad, but not too good. Certainly not deserving of all the talk about it tho.

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