If you liked BG 1 & 2 when they came out you will still enjoy this, unless there is a particular mod you like that for some reason is not compatible with the EEs. Many don't like the EEs for various reasons, but just being able to enjoy the games in recent systems and OSs with QoL features like zoom and quick loot makes it worth it. Sure the UI is not that great, the new portraits and NPCs are subpar, but no game is perfect. It gets a three star from me do to the fact that even if it "works" on Linux, if you have a fairly recent distro you have to do some magic to get them to work. The game (all the EEs) uses some old libraries that newer distros don't package anymore. I expected Beamdog to update libraries with the new Version, but that's obviously not the case.
I really enjoy this game. Still have the originals I bought from Interplay with their jewel cases and was the I.E game I played the most. Compared to BGII and all the mods available this game got dated fast, but the EE fixed that. Sure, in-game balance in the EE version is just non-existent, but the game is still fun to play. I would have given it 5 stars, but I just haven't been able to run any of the EE games on my current Kubuntu machine for a while now. Version 2.6 of the game just came out and it still has the "libssl.so.1.0.0" library not found error. Had the necessary libraries that worked with version 2.5, but now that workaround no longer works and the games don't launch. I hoped that by moving the games to 64bit only this would have been resolved. Shame because I really wanted to roll a new party and start a new adventure.
