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Posted on: December 19, 2017
albanaeon
Verified ownerGames: 152 Reviews: 7
Don't listen to the bad press.
A good addition to BG series. I guessed I lucked out in that I didn't run into any bugs in my playthrough.
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Posted on: October 21, 2016
Rean
Games: 42 Reviews: 1
Just terrible
The Infinity engine is possibly one of the robust engines that exist - as evidenced by the almost countless mods available for the various games that use it. Yet, more bugs than in most fan-mods. Socio-politics - They're a can do in games. But not when you are clubbed over the head with it with all the subtlety of a two-by-four with a nail in it. Seriously, a good plot containing people of various genders, alignment and sexual preference can work very well. However the dialog reads closer to a lecture on what you should be thinking regarding gender politics than any actual human interaction. A far cry from the open-ended D&D principle where you could be anything from lawfull good to chaotic evil implemented in the original game and Tales of the sword coast. Add the two together and it provided more aggravation than pleasure.
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Posted on: October 5, 2019
anthonyem
Verified ownerGames: 20 Reviews: 2
Greay addition to the story.
A wonderful extension to the story. BeamDog did a great job with the engine and at times it felt more like a modern RPG. The storytelling was top notch with a lot of lines voiced over. Played it on Linux and it never crashed once. I can recommend the DragonspearUI mod which changes the UI.
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Posted on: April 19, 2016
keyvin
Games: 412 Reviews: 6
I really enjoyed the game minus bugs.
I quite enjoyed a second expansion to Baldur's Gate. The encounters were fun for me, the core of the story was alright. It sparked a feeling in me that I haven't felt since playing the infinity engine games in high school. It's a solid forgotten realms/infinity engine experience. You will notice quite a few of the reviews aren't commenting on the gameplay, or the core story. Instead they are focusing on an optional character you are free to ignore. My critique of that character is that in Faerun - especially knowing there is a potion to change genders in BGII - you would never know she was trans unless it was a reveal through influence/conversation. I encourage you to play the game. For a larger developer/publisher, the one star reviews would be drowned out largely by people who bought and played the game, while not irrationally fixating on one small part. Giving the game a one star review because of one or two barely significant political hot topics is bullying. The people that disagree with the direction gaming and society as a whole is going have a game popular enough, yet niche enough from a developer small enough that they can have a major negative impact on sales. Game gets three stars. I'd give it four but the bugs it had at launch were very noticeable. Beamdog has always fixed them eventually, but they would have been better off holding off another month or having a larger beta.
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Posted on: April 14, 2016
kokie
Games: 241 Reviews: 1
Buggy and fanfic quality of writing
People in this DLC talk like they are in a high school or bachelor class. Some will deliver their important word s in a quote , for example , some NPCs in game say something along the line of "l don't have to be "prejudiced" toward orge like you do". The word prejudiced is in a quote , just like that...... Seriously? That was a 2000s talks not a sentence that anyone in a fantasy word would deliver. l could understand if Baldur's gate was a j-manga which the CHARNAME is a high schooler time travel into fantasy realm but in is not . Baldurs's gate realm is suppose to be backwater and backward people in this world are uneducated compare to the real world so can who ever write conversations in this game please get it together and write lines that are believable under the game's environment ?
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