However, if the prospect of nearly unlimited player choice alongside a well-written slow-burn fantasy adventure is intriguing, then the Baldur's Gateseries is almost required playing. Players not willing to put in dozens, if not hundreds, of hours conforming to AD&D rules, reading extensive blocks of text, and crossing their fingers during repetitive dice rolling sessions should look elsewhere. No other computer title before or since has so accurately recreated the rules, environments, and play style of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, a fact which is both the game's strongest element and, unfortunately, the exact aspect which makes this franchise so incredibly tedious for some people to play.Īlthough new additions by Enhanced Edition developers Overhaul Games and Beamdog go a long way towards making the first two Baldur's Gate games tolerable for today's players, the whole experience is very heavily tailored to a specific fanbase.
The enhanced edition of the first two Baldur's Gate games arrive on consoles, to the delight of everyone who still knows how THAC0 works.īaldur's Gate & Baldur's Gate IIare iconic games.