Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

I first played the original BG in 2006, obviously as laptops and operating systems have developed, I was unable to play the PC version any more and so was delighted to find it available on GOG. Even nearly 20 years on, it's still really engaging. There are so many character combinations , which in some circumstances drive the quests, that you don't get tired of playing the game. The graphics are still good and I like controling a team, rather than it being a single person shoot up. I also like that when you finish BG, you can export your main character to other games in the family.

While the game mechanics are clunky by modern standards and AD$D 2.0's ruleset is downright archaic and confusing for 5e players, Baldur's Gate remains a phenomenal game that emulates much of the experience and joy in playing tabletop RPGs without having to schedule around all your friends. Beamdog has done an excellent job of making the game playable with little to no fuss on modern computers, and the plot is great fun. If you like RPGs and D&D, this game is still worth your time, minor old warts and all.

While Baldur's gate 3 might be more technically and graphically impressive, BG 1 will always be one of the only DND games that is a real time action RPG, not only allowing the creation of your own character but the creation of your other party members aswell if you so wish it. I have been hooked on it quite some time.

Baldur's Gate, as the first infinity engine game, obviously aged the worst compared to the others. The Enhanced Edition's primary benefit is that it 'just works', out of the box. Not that we still get games in boxes anymore. 1. No need to find and install fixpacks, tweak packs, widescreen mod, stability mods, etc. 2. Modern resolutions and UI scaling 3. Puts all of the expansion pack content together in one place 4. Adds a new arena fighting mode to test out the combat (The Black Pits) 5. Adds four (not three) new characters, who are more BG2-style characters with personal quests and full voice-acting. They clash a bit with the original game, admittedly, but it's easy enough to just ignore them if you want. While it is entirely possible to make Baldur's Gate a fully modern-feeling and modern-looking game using mods, personally I'd rather just click 'install' in GOG Galaxy and start playing. The game is more than a decade old now and any really nasty bugs that may have been in Beamdog's original release are long since fixed. I encountered nothing notable in my playthrough.

Kiedy pierwszy raz zagrałem (końcówka lat 90-tych) byłem zachwycony. I ten zachyt trwa po dziś dzień. Gorąco polecam. Acha, cokolwiek by się działo, pamiętajcie tylko o jednym: przed wyruszeniem w drogę należy zebrać drużynę...