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...
Windows 7, 8.1, 10 64 bit, Dual Core Processor, 1 GB RAM, OpenGL 2.0 compatible, 5 GB available spac...
Description
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.
So many reviews by butthurt gamergaters. Good god. Make no mistake, the game is great. Well-written, interesting, and like the original games, not afraid to stray into social commentary on occasion (funny how some people see that as a bad thing). The combat and general game structure feels a bit more like Icewind Dale than Baldur's Gate, but since it maintain's Baldur's Gate's rich story tradition, I can hardly consider that a downside. To this 18-year Baldur's Gate vet, Siege of Dragonspear feels like coming home.
Should be 3.5 stars. I got a Steam key as a gift, but if I'd bought it for 20 bucks I wouldn't have regretted it despite some disappointments.
The fights are good, on average better than the original BGs were. This has always been Beamdog's strong point, and they don't disappoint. There are maybe a few too many fights that can be solved by AoE attacks, but this is a minor concern. Really good boss fights.
The companions range from okay to good with Schael Corwin, the Archer, being a definite highlight. Loot is nice, unlike in the original BGs you can safely use pretty much any weapon category. Side quests can be divided into involved dungeon crawls (good) and some mini quests (often generic fetch quests, kinda mediocre overall). There is nice reactivity with regards to quest resolutions.
The main plot is where the game squanders its potential. It's promising, and the antagonist for most of the game, Caelar Argent, could be good, but she's not allowed to be, because Irenicus cameos take up so much time - Irenicus interacts far more with the main character than Caelar. The resolution feels rushed, and surprise, the villain is another old IE acquaintance.
Also, some clarifications regarding complaints about the game pushing an SJW agenda and all that: They are ridiculous. It's safe to say that the game takes a stand, but it does so in the most low-key way imaginable. One particularly classy review here states that the transsexual cleric "blurts out a ludicrous sex change story [...] on first meeting". The character mentions that she was born a man but transitioned to a woman when you ask her about her name. That's it. One line of dialogue. That character is involved in multiple quests. Her trans identity never comes up again. Minsc's Gamergate reference is an easter egg line that I never heard throughout the entire campaign. All these people leaving 1 star reviews are looking to be offended, many probably haven't played the game, and none should be listened to.
Siege of Dragonspear is being unfairly reviewed by some bigots. I'm giving the game 5 stars where it probably deserves 4, to help counter some of the negative reviews that aren't based on the game at all.
First and foremost, I don't understand how the inclusion of a transgender NPC with an OPTIONAL dialogue is, as many reviewers put it, "shoving an agenda down my throat." Take off the tinfoil hats, people. There is no "agenda." It's one trans character. Get over it. I was glad to see Beamdog had the balls to include her, honestly.
Second, let's talk about the actual game.
Cons: The black outlines around the characters is a little ugly, but I got over it in about 30 seconds. There are a couple of non-game breaking bugs (this is why it deserves a 4).
Pros: It's really fun. They got many of the same voice actors to come back and work on this title. Did I mention it's fun?
Finally, get over the trans character. Or, don't talk to her. If you can't handle a trans character in a game... you're not going to like the future.
Just love how they with the use of modern day memory can go back and build new content for such an "old engine" . And this is way more than just a fan-fiction. It's the real deal. Shows that everything doesn't have to be about the latest pixel shader, and that there is still some juice and corners left in decades old sript systems to explore aside from the Sword Coast itself that is.
Long story short, there's a character who makes an offhanded remark that she's transgendered, and one of the creators made a remark about how the original Baldur's Gate was kind of sexist and how they were going to remedy that. They did so in a fairly hit or miss way, admittedly (by trying to build the character of characters who never really had any in the first place *because* they were sexist stereotypes to begin with), but apparently even marginal efforts to be inclusive and progressive are enough to send GamerGaters into an enormous bitch fit.
So when you see people talking about it being "not Baldur's Gate" and "pushing a political agenda on you", what they mean is "one of the writers said something I don't like and I'm so terrified by transgendered people that a minor NPC offhandedly mentioning that they're trans is enough to send me into conniptions and give a perfectly serviceable game a one-star review.
I'm playing on a mediocre computer at best and have had only a couple crashes, seen no real bugs to speak of except for a few graphical glitches, and basically find everything in the game to be at least "close enough". I'm happy to see people doing something with the Baldur's Gate licence enough that I'm willing to forgive a sketchy launch and some less-than-stellar writing at times.
It's a shame that there are apparently so many gamers terrified and intimidated by the mere presence of a single minor NPC being transgendered and women doing the writing for one of their franchises that they have to abandon it completely to soothe their bruised egos. SoD isn't perfect, but it deserves better than a bunch of whiny self-persecuting GamerGaters crying about how Steam and Beamdog don't feel obligated to indulge their self-persecuting baby-d**ked screeching.
This game is waiting for a review. Take the first shot!
{{ item.rating }}
{{ item.percentage }}%
Awaiting more reviews
An error occurred. Please try again later.
Other ratings
Awaiting more reviews
Add a review
Edit a review
Your rating:
Stars and all fields are required
Not sure what to say? Start with this:
What kept you playing?
What kind of gamer would enjoy this?
Was the game fair, tough, or just right?
What’s one feature that really stood out?
Did the game run well on your setup?
Inappropriate content. Your reviews contain bad language.
Inappropriate content. Links are not allowed.
Inappropriate content. Content contains gibberish.
Review title is too short.
Review title is too long.
Review description is too short.
Review description is too long.
Not sure what to write?
You cannot save your review due to the following reasons:
You need to select star rating
You need to enter review title
You need to enter the content of your review
Show:
5 on page
15 on page
30 on page
60 on page
Order by:
Most helpful
Most positive
Most critical
Most recent
Filters:
No reviews matching your criteria
Written in
English
Deutsch
polski
français
русский
中文(简体)
Others
Written by
Verified ownersOthers
Added
Last 30 daysLast 90 daysLast 6 monthsWheneverAfter releaseDuring Early Access
Your review should focus on your in-game experience only. Let the game stand entirely on its own merits.
Avoid noise
To discuss topics such as news, pricing, or community, use our forums. To request new games and website or GOG GALAXY features, use the community wishlist. To get technical support for your game contact our support team.
Critique responsibly
To keep our review sections clean and helpful, we will remove any reviews that break these guidelines or our terms of use.
Ok, got it
GOG Patrons who helped preserve this game
Error loading patrons. Please refresh the page and try again.
