Posted on: January 25, 2020
chaderick
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EE Gave Me a Reason to Play the Sequel
My first experience playing Baldur's Gate was from a multi-disc folio in 1999. I revisited the EE version in early 2020, and it has come a long way. I love turn-based RPGs with an emphasis on story. Baldur's Gate gave that, and I remembered it fondly, but never fondly enough to play the sequel. With EE, though, came Siege of Dragonspear. Oft-maligned, SoD adds a few things that finally made me start playing the sequel. First, it bridges the gap. When SoD ends, you are thirsty to find out what happens next. It not only resolves the story from BG1, but it makes the gear-erasing opening scenes of BG2 palatable by making them part of the story. Another thing SoD and EE bring to the mix is fresh new NPCs. I never cared for Minsc. But with Khalid and Jaheira, I was left to fill out my party with someone I just didn't want. EE gave me plenty of heroic options that brought a wealth of story. SoD scattered them to the four winds and made me hunt them back again, but I DID get them back; I still felt like I was playing "my group" by the end. SoD also gives an epic conclusion to the story of BG1. There's nothing wrong with the end of BG1, but the finale we get in SoD is epic by comparison. As a lifelong DM, it's the ending I would give my tenth-level party. Players may be nervous that there's been a lot of talk about a single transgender NPC. Take this: I read six paragraphs of a dwarf talking about how he needs new boots or he's just sure he'll die in his next fight. Then I read three paragraphs of a woman explaining how meaningful it was that I returned something to her. Both were explanations of the McGuffin hunt that I had just completed. Both were as meaningful to the story. The only way to be offended is to be offended that this NPC simply exists. The fact that mere existence was offensive to so many is the real story. For twenty years I went without playing BG2. Because of EE, I have begun and already progressed into the second chapter...and I have zero regrets.
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