Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

Baldur's Gate was and still is an amazing game. Enhanced Edition (EE) doesn't bring that much new things but updated UI and graphics is definitely a plus. Still, you could achieve all that with mods but for lazy guys like myself - Enhanced Edition is better. If I had to choose between original and EE - I would choose EE.

As with BG2, BG1 is a classic and in my opinion the best of the entire series. BG2 is more like a typical DnD session, a bunch of adventures grand and exciting, but lack the cohesion of everything in BG1. Because I love the game so much it was painful to play through the EE by Beamdog. They utterly ruined the experience by injecting their own agendas, characters, and revisions that break immersion and it's very obvious because their writers are so poor next to Black Isle's. In addition they add in sprites from BG2 and other later games that stick out from every other model and it looks terrible. Do yourself a favor and get the real experience by finding an original copy. You won't regret it and it will probably be less buggy than the EE version.

While I agree with some of the comments below, its not quite the same as the old school vanilla bg + mods, its still quite fun. What those old nay sayers forget, is not everyone is technically inclined enough to add in mods, nor have the time to be searching around for all of them. This is a great package with enough playability for a few hundred hours at least.

Still charging $20.00 for this is outrageous.

I've played the original Baldur's Gate back to the days when the game and its add on where released and the Enhanced Edition allows to enjoy the gaming experience on current hardware. I've played the Enhanced Edition from 2016 onwards on Windows, Mac OS X as well as Linux without anything to complain about. The original game deserves 5/5 stars and I also give 5/5 stars for the smooth experience on modern computers. From my point of view, the added content is nice but the new NPCs and their related story lines can also easily be omitted if one prefers the original flavor. Maybe a comment for players who play on a Linux machine: The installed game works out-of-the-box. There is no need to tweak anything as long as the listed 32bit libraries are present. This is a circumstance I really appreciate.