Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear adds a new chapter to the Bhaalspawn saga. The events occurring between Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate II are at last revealed in this 25-hour expansion for Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition.Expand Your Story: Explore new areas, fight new monsters, and win new re...
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Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear adds a new chapter to the Bhaalspawn saga. The events occurring between Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate II are at last revealed in this 25-hour expansion for Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition.
Expand Your Story: Explore new areas, fight new monsters, and win new rewards in the Siege of Dragonspear expansion to Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition. Continue the adventure by exporting your game to Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition
Explore the Sword Coast: Venture through vibrant new hand-painted areas in the classic style of the original Baldur’s Gate
Gather Your Party: The original cast returns to kick butt for goodness - along with Neera, Rasaad, Dorn, and four new additions!
Extra Class: New items, quests, and a new class: the spirit-calling shaman!
Story Mode: A difficulty setting to allow players to experience all of the story with none of the Game Over screens
Legacy of Bhaal: A new extra-hard difficulty setting for experienced players.
Thankfully received a refund.
Dumbed down difficulty
New NPCs are not necessary and poorly written
Lack of challenge
Forced linear gameplay where the options you take have no impact on the game
Quite a few bugs resulting in quests that cannot be completed and crashes
The "siege" is basically a spam fest where you almost have no control of what is going on as there are so many NPCs on the screen. The game engine was simply not designed for large scale battles.
I can't help the impression that most people who hate SoD this haven't really gone through the whole game. I do admit that the beginning is rather unenlightening and the episode in the city of Baldur's Gate was outright boring to me and felt weird but it was short. From the on, the game picks up and gets better as it goes, and by the time I was near the end I had chills on my back.
And to be clear, I'm not someone who's new to BG and doesn't care about respect (or lack thereof) paid to the series. I played BG1, SoA and partially ToB when they came out and have a significant emotional connection to the game; it wasn't easy for me to accept even the standard, non-SoD UI of the EE, let alone the completely revamped SoD UI - precisely because of nostalgia, though one could argue the SoD UI is somewhat ugly. Who knows, if I expected SoD to be anywhere near as great as BG2, maybe I'd hate it as well, I don't know, but having read mostly negative reviews I decided to approach SoD as just some stupid silly thing I might play for curiosity, and I was surprised. In a way, it's a step between BG1 and BG2 in that there are many interactions and relationships between NPCs, something that was largely absent in BG1.
SoD is to BG1 as ToB is to BG2: a short, fun expansion that ties up the story line. While it's much more linear than BG1, the shorter play time and excellent plot balance it out. The new NPCs were the highlight of the experience.
Playing this for the second time around now and it's amazing to get that proper Baldurs Gate feeling that I grew up with! Good story, really great music (!) and sooo nice with clearer, crisper graphics and a better UI. Looking at this game with the improved graphics it really looks so much better than the original (with the sprite outlines turned off, mark me.)
This game is true to the original games' style in the way the characters, dungeons and quests feel, but it's a bit more focused. This focus, while overall making the game better (quests and story line) is also what is stopping me from giving a 6 star review. The one thing I truly missed was the exploration of large areas and cities (like Baldurs Gate and Amn). This leaves the player investigating smaller areas, that though excelent, lack the grandness of the original games.
But this game and enjoy it!
I really cannoy get behind the majority of critisms here. As someone who has been playing the Baldurs Gate almost ever year since release jave a new entry after so long was a dream come true.
The expasion we got was more in line with a full fledged game than an expansion, and threw in enough new quirks and approaches to the Infinity Engine to make it seem more than just a fan project. The large scale battles and tweaked AI make it a .ore challenging game than the series, and it's approaches to some quests work the engine in new ways.
The format itself is a shake up, an onward march that doesn't allow for revisitng areas. The new companions are fantastic and I really wish we could have brought them into BG2, along with returning characters and even returning aoice actors which is a testament to the efforts the team obviously looked at to try an recalture the original.
The narrative itself is morality tale involving a Crusade and it's motives behind it, both personal and political which I think does a great job of uping the ante, without imposing too much on BG2. It's a tough line to meet when bridging the two games as to how much you can expose the player to and in my personal opinion I think it works best when revisited after the end of Baldurs Gate 2, as a way to be reuninited with the characters before the chaos kicks off in Baldurs Gate 2 in somewhat happier times. The writing itself I think is clear improvement from Beamdogs previous attempts which continually got better and better and as much as there is valid criticism and room for improvement, the sheer majority and scale that people have been outraged by it over the years reminds me very much of The Last of Us 2 reactions where ignorance and bigotry is being masked as legitimate critical analysis and it pains me because SoD, if you look pasts it's faults and see it's strengths and how well it does try to capture the Baldurs Gate spirit is pretty fantastic.
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