PC User Reviews

Forced woke politics detract from the classic charm. Slightly broken game balance ruin the experience for BG1,2 Enchanced editions + Siege of the Dragonspear (they come as a bundle)

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La première version sortie était vraiment moyenne, oui : pas de langue française, plein de bugs, etc. La mauvaise foi a été forte des deux côtés : côté joueurs, lorsqu'il a été dit que le jeu était identique à la version originale moddée, que de l'éditeur lorsqu'ils ont répondu par l'invective aux critiques des joueurs. Mais le fait est qu'aujourd'hui, le jeu a corrigé ses manques et est de très bonne facture. Il n'y a pas qu'une mise à jour graphique, l'ajout du bouton de butin rapide et quelques nouveaux personnages : ce sont aussi des éléments d'ordre ergonomique bien utiles (souvenir des sorts malgré l'absorption par exemple), de nouveaux kits, et surtout de très nombreux points de règles, sorts, etc. ont été corrigés par rapport à la version originale. On peut trouver dommage qu'il n'y ait pas eu d'ajouts de sorts et peu de nouveaux objets, mais il n'empêche que, pour avoir énormément joué aux anciennes versions (moddées !), cette EE est très confortable et bien plus pratique. Bref : dire que les EE de Beamdog ne sont que des petites mises à jour graphiques est inexact. Les EE apportent énormément de petites choses qui facilitent la vie, d'une part, et rapprochent des règles originales, d'autre part. C'est un bon travail, pas aussi complet qu'il aurait pu l'être, mais un bon travail quand même. J'y joue depuis 2002 et je n'ai plus jamais installé les anciennes versions, je ne joue plus qu'aux EE...

Baldur's Gate is my favorite D&D game. I finish it every 1-2 years. It is always replayable. You can be a bad character, a good character or both. You can kill everyone or be merciful. It provides good freedom in this respect. The game has an interesting and engaging opening and makes you curious about the future. And as it progresses, the story expands and takes shape with new companions. There are many places to discover on the map, items to be looted are waiting for you. Cities and various quests. It is a truly revolutionary game for its year. I also liked the Black Pits expansion pack, but it could have been more diverse and a little longer. I can say that I found Dragonspear average, but I still liked it. I did not like the ending at all. It is a game that D&D lovers should definitely play.

Добротная игра, хоть немного и устаревшая по механикам, но, всё же, умеющая затягивать в игровой процесс своим сюжетом и обширным лором.

Game above its time. Reviews from weak-minded people say that the game has aged poorly or that it isn't all that. This game was one of the main pillars for current CPRG. BG1 brought a series of unbelievable things to its time, absurd storytelling and everything a game based on Dungeon and Dragons needs. If you can't try to understand how the game was designed for its time, don't play it, you're not ready for this game.

Game really bad even for its time. Graphic and art style of this game pretty good. But gameplay is horrible. Its not nearly deep as its described, I even say opposite, gameplay is absurdly flat, simple and random. Only game where save scum is really OK. Remaster made it even worse. This is too greedy

People say the game is hard to get into and hard to play. Might be true if you have no D&D experience at all, or are generally speaking new to gaming/used to conventional games like you see in the top categories of streaming games on Twitch. I recommend getting familiar with D&D 2e and concepts like THAC0. Eitherway, once you learn that you need to prepare and truly plan ahead before your adventures (just buying a couple potions is not enough), you'll be fine. Use the game's pause feature. There's a grand adventure to be had here, with an exciting story and pretty fun characters that are memorable. Maybe because of their somewhat annoying voicelines.

It is one of the most difficult games to play nowadays. And the new version doesn't have enough improvements to make it so. Gameplay is just really horrible and it's enough to make you stay away from this game.

Отличное переиздание супер классики, изумительно хорошо играется на современном железе, не стыдно показать друзьям!

Playing this for the first time in 2023. Even ignoring the dated graphics and mechanics which are to be expected from a 1998 remaster, the game is... not that great. The story is kinda boring. Also the companion characters have very little depth and there are way too many of them. You're only allowed to have 5 other people in your party and by the 3 hour mark I was still in the "intro" phase of the game and I think I had like 12 different party members to have to pick from. Several more were introduced after that. But I kept the same 5 basically the entire game thinking there would be some kind of character development. It never happened.

Существуют просто Зло и Большое Зло, а за ними обоими в тени прячется Очень Большое Зло. Очень Большое Зло, Геральт, это такое, которого ты и представить себе не можешь, даже если думаешь, будто уже ничто не в состоянии тебя удивить. И знаешь, Геральт, порой бывает так, что Очень Большое Зло схватит тебя за горло и скажет: «Выбирай, братец, либо я, либо то, которое чуточку поменьше»

The game is still a lot of fun, and it actually plays pretty well on Xbox although for tougher battles I wish I had access to a mouse for complex ability/spell assignments but with the game paused you can live with it. There a few things I wish Beamdog added: 1. More auto-saves. There is some BS encounters in this game that just force you into them and you can die if you're not prepared. If these encounters happen near the end of exploring a big area, you will lose all of your progress unless you manually saved before those battles. I feel like the game should saving every 2-3 minutes to avoid the loss of work. Adding this has to be easy and is welcome for console users. 2. For some reason, traps don't show up for me unless I am manually selecting my thief. Like group infravision, I think these should be showing up when the entire party is selected. On console, switching between your thief and the entire party just to check for traps is way too pedantic for my taste. Checking for traps is a lot easier to do on PC. 3. The journal entries could be a lot better. For example, there is a guy named Perdue who is looking for a Short Sword. While the entry mentions where Perdue's sword is, it does not mention where Perdue is located - I actually had to google that because too much time had passed and I could no longer remember where he was in Beregost. Manually looking around is way too time-consuming - the game should always mention that. Also, time limits and the time remaining for a quest should be listed - I don't know why it's not. I had no idea there was a time limit for Kagain's quest so I never got the reward because the son had died. If I had known this had a time limit, I would have prioritized it. I just feel like the remaster could have cleaned a lot of this stuff up. Also, I don't know why the quests are separated by chapter for, and I wish Finished quests were removed/filtered so I didn't have to look at them anymore. This just makes managing quests more difficult than it needed to be. Overall, the game is quite good. There is still a joy in equipping and growing 6 characters as you explore the world. While a lot of modern games do exploration, questing, etc. better, I feel like the game is still fun if you can get past the controls and these aged game mechanics and the general poor quality of life. Maybe not for everyone but this game and this engine have gone on to influence games for over 20 years no so worth experiencing I think. It's just a shame the 3 things I listed weren't addressed - they seem like easy things to patch in.

Having the opportunity to (re)play one of the most influential RPG of all times is really great, specially if it is enhanced with several QoL features and the SotSC expansion. Playing this game (on ps4) until getting the platinum has been a really enjoyable nostalgia trip, the legendary characters and locations never looked better and the story and worldbuilding were as good as they were more than 20 years ago. Still this an old school RPG with strict D&D rules, demanding inventory micromanagement and it looks like a 1998 game so I assume that newcomers will run for their lives towards more "friendly" modern games. I am really grateful for all the configuration possibilities this version offers like the zoom in--out, text size and gameplay adjustments. The new characters included by Beamdog are mostly forgettable and I think gamers will stick to the party they had back in times but they did a great job adapting it to a controller and solving bugs. Totally recommended if you already played it in the past and want to dive again in into the perils of the Sword Coast and Baldur's Gate and you do not want to invest time with PC mods or you have a Ps4

This game offers an interesting story and a good degree of freedom to go where you want to go and do what you want to do. Your decisions sometimes have lasting consequences, so choose carefully! In my opinion, there is too much mandatory combat, and I would have preferred a turn-based combat system over the implemented real-time system that essentially mandates frequent pausing. You will need to become familiar with AD&D 2nd Edition rules to play (see the very lengthy included manuals for that).

When I first started out, I was really captured by it and thought it could be an 8/10. There were so many interesting creatures and the organic party building system. But it slowly just became an abrasive grind. You think you save a lot in Skyrim? Prepare to save even more! The number of times you will run across an overwhelming group that kills you is ridiculous. I thought it was a bit of a fun challenge at first, but after leveling up quite a bit it didn't stop. The dungeons are way too long and have many insta-kill traps, and looking back I can't believe I was able to force myself to play through as many chapters of this game as I did, and I'm not proud of it. This game is absolutely archaic, and should only be praised in the "for it's time" sense.

Great high quality visual, totally improve from old version, great sound, great remake game.

Prvo realno mnogo je stara pa fajtovi smaraju ali i ovako msm igrica je samo okej nista vise od toga bukvalno. Ne bih je sigurno igrao vise, kapiram tad nekad davno da je bila top ali sad jednostavno nije to to. Na kraju sam iskoristio trainer samo da je zbrzam do kraja, prica mi je onako.

Best Version of the Game ever, they still put some Upgrades likes new Portraits and Sound Effects in Every Patch ... GREAT GAME!

BG EE is a perfectly playable game with all the mechanics of the origional .. But the story characters, feel and tone of the origional game is lost. New characters are forced into the for front , new quest completely destroy the pace of the origional. I can play the again origional today and get co.pletely engrossed in the story and the people. But when I played EE if just felt like going through the motions in a DAnd D game.. Even Dialouge has been changed.. Its hard to explain, the origional was paced and characters were introduced in a specific way for maximun impact, in EE thats all ruined as your bombetded with party members in the begining and the wrong people get your **** me this is like the Silent hil 2 and 3 remakes. Some games should recieve a resolution and frame boost and nothing else.

It is heartbreaking to see such a low user score on such an awesome game. The Enhanced Edition provides the best possible experience without going mad with mods compatibility. If you don't believe me just check Steam reviews of people who actually OWN the game. You don't get Extremely Positive reviews for nothing there! I understand people could find it overpriced at the time of its release but there is no reason to hate on it now.

1000 hours later in 2020 I'm still playing this game to death. Do not listen to the crappy reviews.

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The game is interesting though very challenging for me. It's fun at times and story seems interesting.

The precursor to the greatest game of all time, Baldur's Gate does so much right and not a lot wrong. The Enhanced Edition improves this game way beyond what it ever used to be (though the original still has its charm. The box set is still sitting on my shelf next to me!). The characters? Iconic. The villain? ICONIC. The story? Still one of the GOATs. The game has some truly witty writing while maintaining a solid tone throughout. Sometimes it'll have you cackling at one character, while the next you'll be challenging a man wishing to become a god and slaughter thousands of innocents, and it all feels like it belongs. I freakin' adore this game. I've been playing it since I was five years old and I'll play it to my grave. For some reason, the game feels infinitely replayable. Even now that I know pretty much everything there is to know about the game, I still go back and play it. The way the game presents its ruleset with all its numbers and stats has been majorly streamlined in the Enhanced Edition. Gone are the days where you have to know what the hell THAC0 is. The EE does it all for you, and we're all better off because of it. The EE companions and quests are fantastic additions to this already brilliant game. Neera and Baeloth are charming and fun to have around, and the Black Pits is a welcome IWD-feeling side game. The game has improved SO much since it's release in 2012. Massive updates have come and gone and have left this as the definitive version of the game today.

It's a fantastic game, and the ENHANCED EDITION version has brought new players closer and bringing the fantastic experience of playing one of the most important games in game history.

Best RPG ever made. Impossible not to give it a 10 here. Playing it now, all over again, and it's PERFECTION.

I'd give Baldur's Gate a solid 10/10. Fantastic story and world, but a bit unfriendly to new players.

Baldur's Gate is a good game, enhanced or not, but it didn't age too well. Almost every aspect of it was improved in later Bioware|Obsidian games: rpg system, dialogues, companion interactions, ui, journal, path finding and ofc. graphics.

This is very hard to review. The original Baldurs Gate is a masterpiece and a memorable part of gaming history. The enhanced edition (hereby refered to as EE) is a re-release of the same game with (very) minor addition at premium price tag. They add a few new NPC's, change some of the core DnD rules, and adjust a few things but none of it was worth a re-release and all of it was already available for free via mods. In fact, with exception to the new NPC (which add nothing to the game), mods are better than the content that was added in EE and I recommend you install mods even if you have the EE. So how does one review this? Do I review the original game or do I just review the new addition in the EE? I think I will review the two game separately. So the score here will only reflect the content that was added by Beamdogs and not the original content. I will review Baldurs Gate on it own. In terms of content, the additions are the new voiced NPC's and their associated quests. I got to play Neera's quest line as well as Dorn but overall I think that they were not needed. There were already dozens of NPC's available in mods that do exactly the same thing as these "official" additions and even without the mods, there were already plenty of NPCs to choose from. So no points for that. They added a few new class kits to the game like the Wild Mage. A nice addition, but again, even without the new kit, there were already way more kits than anyone could possible play through. And you could add dozens of kits and rebalance mods prior so again, this is nothing new and not worth a new price tag. Bug fixes... problem is, they were already fixed by modders more than a decade prior. Its nice to incorporate them into the official game, but they did a very bad job of it. For one thing, they didnt apply the already fixed stuff from mods and chose to fix things themselves. Problem is they introduced more bugs by doing so and since this was a new version of the game, the old mod bugfixes no longer worked. To Beamdogs credit, they did fix most of the stuff that they themselves broke in time but it would have never happened if they had done it right from the start, by reviewing the fixed made by modders in the past. To me, the only worthwhile contribution from Beamdog is the slightly improved menus which now show your stats clearly like ability to hit enemies (THACO) and such. This is nice for powergamers who like to build their characters and see the results directly but that said, we had ways of figuring that out in the past through logs so again, this is a nice convenience but nothing that was not already available in a different way. Overall, the current version of the EE is fine but not worth extra money. At best, the additions should only cost about $5 more than the price of the original game and not the 200% markup that Beamdogs demanded for the EE. If you were to buy the games today, I would say buy the EE only if the price is about the same as the originals otherwise, get the originals and install BG trilogy mods. That will install a lot of the bug related fixes and add about 20x more content than the EE anyway. This was a very weak effort by Beamdogs to milk money from a great game.

[8.5] Полноценное переиздание состоит из оригинальной игры и дополнения Tales of the Sword Coast. Улучшает изображение за счёт поддержки высоких разрешений, перерисовки элементов графики и интерфейса. В наличие новые полезные опции для настройки игрового процесса. Доступны новые персонажи,задания и локации. Придираться к недостаткам переиздания совершенно безосновательно.

I'm a big fan, played this game 'back in a day' years ago and must say this Enhanced version brought me back. I see people complaining about the level of changes not being worth the price. I can't agree with that. I remember how buggy and clunky the original game was. Now all the bugs are fixed, resolution finally playable, visible and easy to read font size, i recon many significat changes to the difficulty as well. I don't think i remember mages using all those protective spells like now. Final battle is greatly improved as well, Sarevok is a real challenge now. IMO this enhanced edition is great and i am very grateful to Beamdog for what they did. I'd give 10 out of 10 but i'm not convinced to all the new content like new NPC's or Black pits expansion, it just doesn't fit the base game very well...

Quelle arnaque ce truc ! on peut jouer en plus haute résolution que l'oiginal mais le jeu reste affreusement laid, ignoblement vilain ! on se demande ce qu'ils ont branlé putain ! bah rien en fait. "Enhanced Edition" ? tu parles Charles. Pour le reste, c'est encore plus buggué que l'original et tout aussi lourdingue. Un échec total.

I would give the original game 10/10 when I played it on release back in 1998 This enhanced edition adds nothing of interest. The new NPCs are poorly written and conveniently placed to encourage people who never played the original to pick them up easily. Black Pits was also an unnecessary addition. Overall a very average game, however additional points must be deducted as the lack of professionalism by the "community manager" is unforgivable. Banning people on their official forum over the years for no good reason, spreading lies as to why people were banned, asking for positive reviews etc. is not acceptable.

Hooked once again, 18 years later. I bought the original game in 1998 and totally loved it (played it hundreds of hours). I bought the enhanced edition in 2016 (so I did not encounter all the bugs from the 2012 release) and loved it again (played it hundreds of hours). If you love RPG's, you'll love Baldur's Gate. If you loved it back in 1998, you'll love it a little more, because now it has all the improvements of BG2! And the new Quick Loot feature is priceless. This one is a tried-n-true timeless classic.

The writing and gameplay is far worse than anyone who loved it back then will ever admit, but the EE sure does make it a smoother and better looking experience.

Disappointed is the word I would use for this game. As a fan of the original series I cannot help, but feel betrayed by the new developers. The writing in this game seems so lazily written and the characters no longer have the feeling this once gave me. DO NOT BUY. I am telling you will be disappointed.

For some reason i played BG2 Shadows of Amn before this. However i remember getting the BGI ToTSC 6 CD edition and was more than happy to be playing a BG game again. The enhanced edition fixes many issues with the original: few bugs, adds lots of enhancement and restores some stuff missing from the original that was added in previously with tweak packs etc. Im greatful that beamdog has taken the time to put together the best version of this game without having to add mods - of course mods can still be used, but for me i am happy not having to download and figure out what mod to install in what order. If you liked the other BG or Infinity Engine games: BG2, IWD, IWD2, PST etc then you will like this game as well.

Shortly: Great graphics, poor writings. Some people say u can have this graphics with the widescreen or BGT mod but it is nice to not have to go through the downloading and installing all this mods. On top of that Enhanced Edition brings more like super fast loading times and new stylish and smooth fonts, which can be sized for the personal preferences. Also no problems with Win8 and new machine specs anymore, so yeah, the edition is well worth its name. Only thing i dislike is a writings as they entirely doesn't fit into the BG (and d&d) setting. New Npcs are rather flat, miserably but pretending to be funny, its like they want to be cool or something instead to be true self. Neera for example was so annoying and her speech is way to modern, detached from the story and the medieval fantasy type of world. The rest NPCs and their quests was no better, i tried them once and never come back for them. Not for the first time Bioware proved that they are the best at what they do ;)

They turned a game while a little buggy,into a big piece of camel crap, other than dorn the rest of the new characters at least in BG are useless, noticed area spells cast by the enemy like web they are virtually immune from, apparently hold is not an offensive spell so setting a cleric to cast them is useless which means you have to micro-manage your group at a all time high. Though not their fault but one that was not corrected is the lack of spells available until you get to baldur's gate.

Amazing game, you will not regret buying. Anyone considering this should buy because it is a worthy investment both for your money and for your time spent as a gamer on this top quality product/company.

Don't understand the low review scores, this game rocked when it first came out & continues to rock today. Devs today STILL use the BG formula to make games (check out Dead State, a zombie infested BG-like game set in modern times). The graphics are a bit dated but the story & gameplay are as deep & satisfying as it was back in 1998. Add in the side conversations, romance & NPC's who have their own agendas & you have a game that will keep you up at night just to see what happens next.

Now if this was a review of the game after it's release it would be a few notches lower. The game released quite clearly unfinished and the developers admitted so and were committed to continuing the bug hunt and perfecting this game and they did just that. This version of Baldur's Gate and it's equal are the definitive versions. Bugs old and new have been destroyed, works perfectly on new computers (as someone who used to have to install multiple mods to run my disc based version that if one failed the process would have to be repeated from game install, and that's before windscreen mods - This has saved me endless hair tearing and screaming in my household.) The new content is absolutely perfect, the extra equipment a godsend (club proficiency pays of now!) and I personally have to fight which of the new characters accompany me. The three of them are among the best characters in the game, character and proficiency wise and certainly make up for the other characters silence with the BG II level of dialogue. IF you are a BG fan and can't be bothered getting those old disc out or sick of headbutting the wall after playing 20 hours to find a mod has messed up a crucial element and you have to reinstall the entire game then do yourself a favour and pick up this copy. Anybody new to BG, this is most definitely the copy for you.

Beamdog has breathed new life into an ailing and ancient game. No one can dispute how good the original Baldur's Gate was, but I will argue that this edition truly is enhanced. No messy mods to fix graphical issues, a vast array of bug fixes, new quests and new characters with more dialogue go a long way in adding value. If I wanted a junked-up game I had to add third-party fan-made mods to, I would just go to GoG and buy an original copy (or find my six installation CDs from the 90's). The enhanced edition brings me the game I remember with less of the bugs and some truly optimal new features (use of the BG2 engine, spells and class kits, constant patches for continued upgrades, etc.). I am glad to own this game, and I have already logged over 300 hours playing on BG:EE.

I think peoples will buy this just to see "enhanced" game with run on modern computer at 1-fps, which normally could run on toaster at 60-fps. This is Guiness Record for worst improvement category. This is like use donkey to pull Ferrari.

I first played this game at a friends house back when I was probably say 14-15, only briefly. I recently got steam and saw this game and the sequel on sale for I think 7 dollars and 14 dollars respectively. I'm pretty close to the end of the first game and I've thoroughly enjoyed it. I could see myself playing through this game multiple times using different characters and finding new quests and cool npcs. Really don't see why this game is rated at 7.1 at the moment but I guess different people like different games.

New interface and higher resolution font (patched in Nov. 2013) + Many bug fixes and BG2-ruleset incorporation - Same low resolution sprites and backgrounds - High price for existing free community content - New cutscenes are inferior and nebulous Baldur's Gate 1 is a great game, but this product isn't disappointing by itself; it's disappointing because it is establishing a low bar which will undoubtedly be reproduced in the "EE" versions of BG2 and potentially Planescape: Torment. The only people I could recommend play this are those with strong nostalgia for the original. It's unfortunate that the original studios no longer exist to retain control of their license.

Worth it for nostalgia reasons. However there's not a huge amount "enhanced" about this. And if they're going to ask for a fair bit more than what you can get from the basic gog download then it should certainly have had more work done to it as it still feels as old as the original. However, I can't give this a bad review.... I mean, come on.... it's Baldurs Gate... It's just a shame the enhancements were so slight.

This game is a lot of fun, always has been. It's good to be finally able to get to play the game even on a whim, without having to go through the trouble of getting it to work on new PCs, setting up mods to make it worthwhile and so on. In it's current stage, it has no game-stopping bugs; in fact it worked just fine for me even in multiplayer from day one. The new characters and content are interesting enough, and even though I had some doubts about the Black Pits at first, I found it fun as well, with good gameplay and characters. The best thing about BG:EE is that it will get continued support with new patches and content as we go along... and to me it's also important as a necessary step towards BG2:EE, an enhanced version of what I view as the best RPG of all time.

This game has been updated. The graphical interface (updates) were the first positive aspect that I noticed in juxtaposition to the original version. I played through the first part of this game with a tinge of speed, satisfaction and immersion that just wasn't possible the first time around (in the original). Steam really compliments this release, a full install, no shifting back and forth between six CD ROM. The new resolutions, textures, zoom out feature, etc all assist in a level of enjoyment not possible with the original. In compliment, there's a few extra characters to expand the roaming level of augmented possibility (especially for when BG2:EE is released). On a downside, the new "Cut-scenes" are hit and miss; they lack the original talent of the talented collaborators Baldur's Gate development team (first release PS Interplay I miss you so much). Also the new portraits are clumsy in contrast to the old. Overall? Who doesn't want to play automated and updated Dungeons and Dragons from the original success story, rendered with a constructive revision? Obviously, this is a revamp of an old classic. I still consider Baldur's Gate essentially unparallelled in immersion and depth within the RPG genre; but let's call a spade a spade. This game is great, but not built from the ground up. Imagine what could be possible with the dynamics of this game in a new body? 9.2/10 -youcreatea