Baldur's Gate

Pros: Incredibly addicting, vast detailed world, good overall plot.
Cons: a lot of cd switching, interface a bit troublesome.

This is one of those few RPG games that rule on the computer. It takes a bit to appreciate Baldur's Gate though. Understand that this game is not the following:


1) This is NOT even remotely close to a console type RPG (a.k.a Final...

Pros: Really neat, and low specs.
Cons: Monstrously addictive and huge.

Although Baldur's Gate is easily the funkiest RPG computer game I've ever played (this is admittedly not too hard as it's a genre that I generally sneer at, with only Ultima Underworld 2 and Ultima 8: Pagan breaking my embargo), I must warn you severely....

Pros: Immersive game world, great customization on the characters.
Cons: Some bugs, can cause crashes. Pathing isn't the greatest.

SUMMARY: If you like role playing games, games that play very close to D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) rules, like creating your own character and seeing them grow, or just want to forget about the world for a while, this game is for you. ...

Pros: Different experience every time with every player. Very true to AD&D model.
Cons: Crashed after a few hours of play and requires a lot of resources

Baldur's Gate has been heralded as one of the best RPGs available on the PC today, and it has surely earned it's title. Baldur's Gate is set in the realm of Waterdeep, an area well known to AD&D RPGers. It's a town with everything and anything, and...

Pros: Very deep play mechanics, a lot of atmosphere, very non-linear, spectacular graphics and sound.
Cons: Rather steep learning curve. VERY challenging.

First a confession, I'm no veteran to PC RPG's. I have played many console RPG's from Final Fantasy to Xenogears to lesser-knowns like Breath Of Fire. But computer RPG's were completely foreign to me... until one day when I found myself interested in...

Pros: The rebirth of great AD&D'ing
Cons: Slightly overrated, Fallout 2 was better

RPGs were quite pathetic for awhile, weren't they? RPGs are probably the biggest market right now, and to think they were once as unpopular as puzzle games is mind-blowing. I started gaming just when that drought ended, luckily, but the great titles that...

Pros: Nice story and story development.
Cons: Real-time combat, lack of balance in the gaming system, technical difficulties.

I have been an avid player of Dungeons and Dragons for over a decade. Playing the Czech mutation, called Dragon’s Lair (to avoid copyright issues, it was not exactly D&D), I realized this was the first real multiplayer game. Later, I have...

Pros: fun npcs, graphics, game play, *high* replay value, easy to learn, great interface
Cons: unengaging plot, buggy, CD switchin' is irritating & leads to scratchin', enemies are chumps

After playing through [and enjoying] Fallout and Fallout 2, I had great faith in Interplay and Black Isle. So when Baldur's Gate came out a couple years ago I eagerly snapped it up, thinking to supplement my post-nuclear fare with some old-school...

Pros: Lots of areas to explore, there is an expansion and upcoming sequel, it Fantasy man!
Cons: One word: Clickfest

Baldurs Gate is such an impressive game that I have yet to come up with one adjective to sum it up, so I'll have to use several. A few that come to mind are: addicting, engrossing and huge.

You Begin in the Candlekeep Inn and all is not...

Pros: great story, fun, rare multi-player feature, looks/sounds good, massive area to explore, depth, attack anyone
Cons: can get boring and seem hard, lots of busywork, no easy gratification (well besides a hack)

A realistic RPG? Well few RPGs are truly based on realism but instead an unwritten code of magic and fable. Recently games have strayed from that standard. Games like Diablo (while fun) left the gamer with a fast paced hunt and destroy experience that...

Pros: Wonderful graphics, music and sound effects. Faithful to the rules of D&D. Easy interface. Very user friendly.
Cons: Atmosphere killing TV references and In-jokes which we have all heard a million times *yawn*. Lots of tedious disc changing. Annoying characters. Ordinary voice acting. Preset plot and history/personality of your character which is hard to feel a part of a

During my Commodore 64 years I had been a devotee of SSI's official Advanced Dungeons And Dragons computer games, completing both the Forgotten Realms and the Dragonlance series many times over.

For years these...

Pros: One of the better RPG's to be released in many years.
Cons: Several annoying gameplay items, but nothing critical.

If you take a look at my complete listing of Epinions, you'll notice a large gap between July and September. I'd like to say that it was due to a rigorous training program, or a dream vacation - But the truth is far more geeky. ;) After messing around...

Pros: Rich, complex world
Cons: You won't get a good night's sleep for months

We purchased this game after hearing a few of our friends talking about it every time we got together. They would compare notes about where their characters were, how annoyed they were by Noober, what they found in the various towns.

This game...

Pros: Exciting, fun, great attention to detail
Cons: May be a bit glitchy

Okay, I did like this game. I played it a lot. I yelled at it when party members died, insulted it when I (shh) did something stupid, and cheered when my party emerged intact from deadly situations. But I went into the game with a good idea of what...

Pros: The graphics look good
Cons: The game is boring, annoying and dull

I've borrowed Baldurs Gate from a friend. That's one thing I am glad for - at least I did not buy the game myself! It took me a long time getting to know how to play the game. I had just finished playing Vampire the Redemption (see my review of that...