Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

I had first played "Baldur's Gate" in the early 2000's and thoroughly enjoyed it. This enhanced re-issue of the first game in the series is simply superb. First, the game itself is super-stable and runs perfectly on Windows 11. The character/team creation class/kit options are deep, limitless in their possibilities and offer immense replay value. I spent hours on the Baldur's Gate wiki learning about all of the different character races and class/kit options, so I could create an interesting and powerful team. The game itself is immersive, satisfying and still hugely fun to play. This game is considered a classic RPG, and, with good reason. The story is great. sound effects and voice-acting are first-rate. Battles can be fought with different tactics. Want to plunge through enemy hordes as a fighter brute? Prefer magical attacks? Or, want to use thief sneak attacks? You can do it all. This is one of the best PC RPG gaming experiences of all time. Buy it, play it and enjoy it.

You get a lot of fantastic playtime out of Baldur's Gate 1+2. With the Enhanced Edition you gain built-in widescreen support and a nifty zoom feature, but it costs you support for hundreds of mods (many adding complete campaigns with solid writing). Why bother paying double for 3 EE characters if you can get a dozen or so mod characters that also bring individual banter dialogues. Save yourself some money and get the non-EE version and get the BIG WORLD installer, it'll run BG1+2 in the BG2 engine and also allow you to add tons of quality mods in one installer. Mod support in EE is just too intransparent :-/ If you hate mods, you can get EE, but you will miss out on much that kept the demand for BG for 15 years.

The Enhanced edition offers a worse experience than the original. Fortunately the original is included in the purchase, so my money wasn't entirely wasted.

i played 1, 2 and siege of dragonspear in one go last year and let me tell you it was simply incredilbe. No issues, no bugs, everything went smooth. You should absolutely buy it since whatever issues existed are fixed

A recommendation to everybody who likes D&D and is interested in the lore of the forgotten realms. The first few hours are pretty annoying, and the game becomes much more enjoyable from act 3 onwards. In general, the second game is much better, though. I can't say anything about how it compares to the original version, though.