Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

Pirate it instead. The scumbags that released this pulled the original from the store. They dont deserve your money.

First XX minutes: clicking "reroll" until hitting ~90 stats and not rerolling them because of insane boredom

Amber Scott should be fired for shoveling her cultural marxist bullshit into this game. There's nothing good about this game

Cant stand nor will I ever support a company that begs for positive reviews, takes credit for others' work, shoehorns modern political issues into beloved titles, and demeans people with whom they disagree with politically. This is a review of Beamdog as a company, and not the game

Baldur's Gate carries a great reputation, one that I think is absolutely doggy doodoo. There are very few games out there like Baldur's Gate, so treasured and loved by so many, that in reality is a dismal drudgery of a game. Look up the Baldur's Gate review by Scorpia (one of the greatest gaming journalists and reviewers in the history of the industry, and certainly knows more about RPGs than anyone else I can think of) that was done in Computer Gaming World, she outlines, much better than I, everything that is wrong with this abysmal game. From the forgettable plot, to the outrageous crap writing, to the useless mage party members, the nonstop combat with uninteresting enemies in uninteresting areas and just CONSTANT (CONSTANT!) without respite, the herky-jerky stupidity of the real-time with pause system, the complete nose-dive in quality at the midway mark, the bizarre constant low rolls of the RNG that reduces combat to constant misses and failed saves. Jesus, what else can I go on about? The wasted potential of a story with an initially interesting villain (Sarevok) who by the end is such generic fodder? The insipidness of your NPC followers, who are either incompetent, whiny nincompoops (Imoen) or just comic relief (Minsc)? How playing with low level D&D characters is an absolute, unmitigated slog? How the only good thing for this game has longed been dated into oblivion? The production values have ceased to impress, the atmosphere isn't nearly as potent as it used to be, and the only saving grace, its relatively entertaining multiplayer, is completely outdone by Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate's own much, much, much better sequel, Baldur's Gate II. In 1998, with only Fallout to really give RPG gamers something decent to chew on at the time, this must have seem like a good game in the face of the garbage, but in reality, Baldur's Gate is an overrated, grisly, gruesome slime of a game. Avoid.