Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

When I read the announcement that Baldur's Gate would get an HD treatment, I do have to admit I was very excited about such great news. But excitement slowly faded away after they made crappy excuses about a bazillion things that would prevent a proper remake. I'd advice you get the original instead, there are mods which can make it even better than this crappy remake, without ripping off your money.

Classic version with mods does everything this "enhanced" edition does and more. The graphics look horrible in this, the additions are like poorly written fanfiction and the UI improvements are ripped from free mods, the cutscenes are replaced with cheaply produced barely animated concept art with bad voice acting that even remove important iconic lines. The worst thing about all this is when bad reviews were coming out the publisher/developer removed access to the good (original) version that everyone was prefering, so new players are forced to buy their "enhanced" version for more than double the price. Just stay away.

This package (BG1:EE and BG2:EE) does not have an original, pre-EE1.3 (and higher) version. I was so happy to buy the Classic, Original one after the Beamdog's fiasco, but it seems that I will have to get a pirated copy of the original again. Here is what's falsely advertised: "Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition includes the classic Baldur's Gate 2 Complete.", - and that's just not true. There are No files for NON-EE version of the game. I've already asked to include these files, or to refund me for both of the games.

I purchased this version mainly for the widescreen support and a hope it would be less buggy. It does support widescreen better, but it seems to have all the bugs of the original plus many unique to it. Just buy the original.

Loved playing Baldurs gate as a Kid and glad to snag this on sale but it inexplicably doesn't work on my computer. I get a non specific error code with instruction to contact beamdog support. I haven't heard back.