![]() ![]() I gather that it is a remake of a game that came out in '98. Graphically, this game is quite impressive. Against the advice of the game, I played without first going through the tutorial, but many aspects of the game that I was initially confused on (mainly HUD elements) were easily figured out after a few minutes of exploring. Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is a blast. I just wish it had reached a higher standard.This is my first time playing, and I gather that there is much left to do, but I have to write this review and share my initial thoughts. While it may seem a bit negative, I do still think EE is a good version and enjoy playing it and even using some of the new characters. (Combat and stuff seems fine, I just found the plot a bit thin and not particularly interesting.) ![]() I wasn't impressed with it personally, but that can very well be a matter of taste. I don't know if it can import original BG characters. The difference in editions is not insignificant if you are familiar with the different rulesets, but that might only matter to someone like me who can see the seams where the stitched 3.5 stuff in.ĮE also has a new sequel taking place between bg and bg2, Siege of Dragonspear, which may be of interest. The new kits they add are also, in my mind, pretty terribly balanced and draw on 3.5e content instead of 2e which is the rule set the game uses. ![]() Unfortunately the DLC characters and quest lines I don't find particularly noteworthy, and wish they had been better written. The DLC adds some minor new stuff, though because of their contract limitations they cannot do what I would really want which is to basically make an official NPC pack that adds in the banter and dialog to make them like bg2 npcs. I would advocate the EE version simply because that is where a lot of the modern modding is taking place and it does a number of updates to the original that were originally in mods in terms of bug fixes, as well as allowing you to start as any of the classes from BG2. The PC version of the enhanced edition has the DLC included, on the phone you buy it separately, if it matters to you. There's certainly a case to be made either way, but now that you don't have a choice you might as well pick the one that doesn't require you to spend an hour installing mods. There is certainly a segment of the fanbase that would consider that to be sacrilege, but the new (out-of-place and sort of bad) content is easily ignored and there are a couple of quality-of-life tweaks that are exclusive to the Enhanced Edition. Your real choice is between the Enhanced Edition and a bunch of mods (including the TuTu mod, which requires BG2 to work) and at this point I'd honestly say you're fine with the EE. Baldur's Gate 1 is already a hard game for someone unaccustomed to that style of RPG to try and play now, but throwing on the added challenge of 800圆00 resolution and not having access to some of the engine-level improvements of BG2 sound unappealing. As someone who has played that game with a bunch of mods and is replaying it now with the Enhanced Edition, I'd personally never want to play unmodded Baldur's Gate 1 in any sort of capacity. However, that also means that you can try both and see which one is to your liking. If you buy the game on GOG, you get both the original and Enhanced Version, which sounds like a pretty great deal until you realize that the vanilla versions of Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 were comfortably available for sale on GOG up until last week for half as much.
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