If you like M&M 6 and 7 then this one is fun too. It's basically the same thing, except you have to find NPC's instead of creating them all at the start. It's a little shorter and feels slightly small compared to 6 and 7, so I'd really recommend playing those first. But if you've already beaten 6 and 7 then this one is worth it.
This is a fun, easy-to-learn, turn-based game. I like it. My 12 year old likes it. My 7-year-old likes it.
This is a great series of games, though it's also very mixed. It's an adventure game with combat elements and a fair amount of humor, where you can take your character from the first game and import it into any later game (so you can do 1 to 2 to 3, etc., but it also allows you to go 1 to 5, or 2 to 5. You can import from any lower number to any higher one). Most of the music is pretty great too. The first Quest for Glory is all text-based. The text-based version I'd say is better, but somewhat counter-intuitive if you've never done it before. The VGA version is easier for new players (and the easiest class is a figher where you add points to magic and other skills you don't have). The second game is also text based. There's a VGA version of #2 that you can find free online from AGD interactive studios. It's very well done, free, and fully compatible. It's also much more polished than the VGA versions of 1 or 3. Quest for Glory 3 was the first VGA version originally produced, and so it's the clunkiest. There's some nice elements, but if you can't get through it there's no harm in exporting your character directly from QFG2 to QFG4. QFG4 is great. It was pretty buggy originally, but GoG includes all the patches which helps I think it includes a fan patch as well, though there may be more online. Save often. QFG5 is a completely different style of game. It's also the only one that's 3d. In many ways it's my favorite, but it's also a very different feel from 1-4. If you buy the series and can't get into the earlier ones I'd try going directly to 5 and seeing if that's more your style. All in all this is a great deal for not very much money.
I haven't played this game on GoG, but I bought it when it came out (I'm old) and beat it then. It's a lot of fun. It's like Might and Magic 6 in that you choose a party of four people and then explore the world doing quests and killing monsters. However, the characters are more varied in that not every character can master every skill they know. Some can only do it a little bit. So it takes a bit more work to have a workable party than it did in six, and also more than in eight because in eight you can swap people and in seven you're stuck with the ones you choose at the start. The game is still brutally hard at the start, though there's a peasant you can find who will give you a wand which will make the beginning game slightly easier. The music is fantastic; I think it's the best of the series. All in all this is a great dungeon-crawling adventure with minimal story and a giant world to explore. You start out as novices who can barely kill a rat, but by the end you fly around and rain fire down from the heavens. This is a great use of a few dollars and a lot of time.
I've beaten Might and Magic 6 twice now, once with a party of two knights, a sorcerer, and a cleric and the second time with a party that was two sorcerers, a cleric, and a druid. And it was fun both times, though way easier the second time (because I knew more). In the game you choose four charactes out of a possible six classes; three pure classes and three hybrid classes. The knight is all might and no magic. The sorcerer is all elemental magic. The cleric is all body/mind/spirit magic. The druid is a mix of cleric and sorcerer. The archer is a mix of the knight and sorcerer. The paladin is a mix of the knight and cleric. I'd say the easiest party to play for a new person would be a party of a knight, paladin, cleric, and sorcerer. The game can be brutally hard in the beginning if you're new, and it doesn't even attempt to hold your hand. Expect to die fighting goblins, but whenever you die you just restart with the same xp (but no gold) at the town entrance. You'll want to pick off one weak enemy here and one there until you're a high enough level. Your people won't have the weapons they need or the armor they need or the spells they need or anything. But once you get over that first hump it's a lot of fun. Don't hesitate to look things up online. When my sister and I played through this game in our younger days we had the strategy guide open next to the computer and it was still hard. It's a big world and they often don't explain much to you. It's an old-school hack-and-slash and dungeon-crawling adventure. Not much story. You kill things, you level up, you kill more things. Eventually you fly around like a god and drop meteors on your enemies. If you've got a few bucks and a lot of free time, this game is for you.
There are two reasons to buy this: 1) You've never played Baldur's Gate 2 2) You played it years ago and want to play it again. For those in the first group Baldur's Gate II is a fun party-based D&D RPG with many improvements over the 1st one, mainly that there's a lot more interaction with and between NPC's then in Baldur's Gate. It still doesn't have as much dialogue and nuance as something like Planescape: Torment, but it's not just a hack-and-slash RPG like Diablo or other games in that model. It was the precursor for so many other party-based RPG games (like Knights of the Old Republic) that follow a similar model. If you have the time and haven't played it then play it. For both groups you're then wondering if this edition is worth it, and yes it is. It's not that expensive (Yes, it's $20. Figure out how many hours of entertainment you're going to have with this relative to other uses for $20.) The bugs the old reviews talk about were all fixed long ago and this edition adds a new class (Shamen), some new kits, and some new NPC's. I can't think of any reason to get this version over the original other than to save a tiny amount of money. If you like mods, most of the older mods have now been updated to work with the Enhanced Edition (which wasn't the case when some of the older reviews complaining about this were written, as updating mods takes time), and if you have this version you won't have to install a ton of mods just to make it run well in the first place (as this edition already incorporates them). They had a couple of new graphics options I didn't like, but all you have to do is turn them off in the graphics settings.
