Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

Baldurs Gate. Classic. Baldurs Gate EE on sale for 3.99. Thanks very much!

First version of Enhanced Edition was bugged and not worth it. But after some patches it really made it. While I'm writing these words it is the best version ever released, really polished: enhanced graphics, gameplay, interface and extra features such as zoom (love it!). Highly recommended game for old-school-lovin' gamers :-)

With all the patches the EE is now the best way to play BG. No bugs at all and perfect graphics scaling. + if you are playng with a notebook, you have an incredible multigesture support : - pinch to ZOOM! - 2 fingers slide to move the map ... you re not going to miss the mouse if you play outside! I played the old saga and now it s better and 100% polished. The only thing you can miss are the old cutscenes (evocative) i hate the new cutscenes :(

I've seen multiple people praise these games many times, going on and on about how incredible they are. As I expected, it's just D&D; which means that it's garbage. I'm an avid RPG player and GM and I've spent the last decade learning tens of systems, and to this day I can't understand how D&D has gotten to the point of popularity it's reached. It's boring, uninspired and so heavily reliant on chance for the most basic of things that it's an arbitrary slog to go through at best and an RNG nightmare at worst. You have your hands tied in every single aspect of your character creation; most stats applications are arbitrary and putting a daily limit on skill uses has been and will always be the worst design decision ever conceived. Baldur's Gate is not only all of those things, but since it's 2nd ed. D&D it's even MORE of an RNG nightmare where your choices are even more limited from the getgo. Case in point, early on the game, you're attacked by an assassin called Tarnesh. He's an extremely strong enemy and it's unlikely you'll be able to beat him if you're not well prepared, so the best choice is to prompt him to begin combat and then have the nearby city guards to deal with him. FOUR. TIMES. Four times he killed at least 6 guards before killing me, until my patience ran out. In any proper game system, you'd have a way to counter it, but this is D&D. Your ability to come up with a solution doesn't matter, only the whims of a dice roll. That, or willfully cheesing the game, which I refuse out of principle; if the game isn't well designed, I shouldn't have to use exploits to surpass its shortcomings. If you want to play a CRPG, go look for Pillars of Eternity or Divinity Original Sin; at least they're a more interesting in their background and lore. For anyone who plays TTRPGs, do yourselves a favor, forget D&D and play an actual game like Riddle of Steel/Blade of the Iron Throne, Mythras, HarnMaster or Blades In The Dark.

Baldur's Gate is a masterpiece and a relic of the golden age of PC RPG games. A must play for any RPG fan, and this is the best possible version. The main reason for favouring this version over the original is the myriad of bug fixes, UI and graphical enhancements Beamdog have added ensuring the rose-tinted memory of the game remains intact in modern gaming. Many die-hard fans will recommend the original version with mods as an alternative, but the mods never reach the depth that Beamdog's efforts do, and can be a pain to get running correctly. Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition takes away the headaches or just getting the game to play nicely, and still allows for more interesting mods and modding should you wish it. Their additional characters and quests aren't really up to standard of the original content and can be ignored completely, but they are a fun distraction for the curious.