Many people look back fondly on their old school CRPG that they grew up playing as a kid or teen. Many hours were had marveling at the accomplishment of Bioware bringing the DnD universe to life on a PC platform. But this game just does not age all that well. The main campaign story falls flat, it holds your hand the whole time, reminiscent of a children’s cartoon. The AI is very poor, constantly stuck behind an object it failed to pathfind and some henchmen won’t even switch to melee when the distance is closed, leading to attacks of opportunity with every shot. The game in general is still buggy, I’ll lose my buff bar just switching zones, conversation clicks sometimes fail to start, Characters getting blocked by NPCs that fail to move… you know stuff that we put up with decades ago… still in the game. Once again mods are left doing all the dirty work while a terrible developer slaps ENHANCED EDITION on the cover and calls it a day. I tried to love it again, I just can’t do it. The only reason to pick this up again is to mod it to hell and/or multiplayer shenanigans. Single player gamers - skip this one.
The game is a good remaster but the humor doesn't quite hold up. It can be beaten in a few hours and I felt that the voices for the NPCs were bad and corny, like they got bad mimics of 1980's looney tunes. Some of the dialogue will make you chuckle but nothing more. I understand that most people will play this for nostalgia purposes but for the player that is older that may have missed this one, I don't think it's all that appealing.
