Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

My review is based on the Android version, of which as far as I have known the only way outside of GemRB ports to play this portable. Omitted are talks about interface and the like because of this; the only other difference between this and mobile is that the new NPCs/quests are in-app purchases. BGEE is a mixed bag. Most of the added content are mods seen as marked improvements: mostly TuTu, bugfixes, and Unfinished Business (which means cut content restored.) All of this is good and well put for the most part. When you get to the content Beamdog introduced themselves, that's when things get a little more hairy. The writing doesn't match up quality-wise, and on top of that much of the new quests feel more like modern BioWare than Black Isle/BioWare of the day. It horribly sticks out and pulls you out of the experience, feeling more like a fan modification than content from a fully-fledged remake, and I'm not sure if the upcoming expansion is a great idea or not because of it. Throw this in with the aforementioned fact that the best parts are included content from mods, and one must unfortunately concede to the fact that a little time of modding the original equals a better product than BGEE. It feels to me that if the effort put into extra content were put in another direction I'd be rating this a full 5 stars for ease of use. The initial modifications, porting to new OSes, new voicesets, and new portraits are friends who are welcome to stay. Unfortunately the extra quests, kits, and NPCs are their cousins who are begrudgingly let in to crash on your couch.

Beamdog fills the game with their tone deaf OC characters who stick out like sore thumbs and really break the immersion of the world. Play the Originals instead if you want to truly experience these classics.

http://www.shsforums.net/files/file/1135-disable-enhanced-edition-npcs/ The above link is to a mod by Argent77 which will disable the new companions. Baldur's Gate is one of the best CRPGs ever made and the Enhanced edition adds excellent technical improvements. These updates add a range of options for tailoring your experience and, in most ways, improves the experience. The GOG release also includes the original version. If you are at all a fan of RPGs then do yourself the favour of getting this game. Unfortunately Beamdog, the programmers of the enhanced edition, saw fit to not only improve the technical aspects of the game but also add their own characters. These characters should have been offered in a separate content pack DLC, but instead Beamdog made them a permanent part of the game. The new characters are hard to miss and attempt to take a front seat. Gamers new to Baldur's Gate can be forgiven for thinking that these are the primary companions. It seems that Beamdog tried to piggy-back off Baldur's Gate's success by inserting their own creations, which is a fairly hubristic action. Luckily they have learned from their mistake and there are no such intrusive changes made to later Enhanced Edition games; Planescape Torment EE, Icewind Dale EE etc. Unfortunately Beamdog have not decided to remove the new Baldur's Gate characters and put them in a seperate content pack DLC. The above mod is for people who want to enjoy the excellent technical updates without the unwelcome Beamdog companions.

it's 2020 (7 years after release?) and this version is so bugged I can't force myself to play it. can I get oryginal version instead? please?

Long story short: The game is great if you love CRPG. This is a must play, even only for one play through. You see these reviews saying "Don't play it, it's bad port, the original runs just 'fine'"-- well let me say this to you, prospective buyer: NO, the old version is NOT fine and *will* required you to MOD the game to play the game because the original screen scale is simply unplayable. Granted the game released in the 90s, the tech they were using are obsolete, so if you try to play the original, you *will* inevitably want to mod it, Just so that it can be 'playbale'. So yes, buy the enhanced version, download Lefreut enhanced UI, copy lefreut mode to your game install folder, install the mode, et voila, it's a lot better than the original.