Baldur's Gate

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: Great AD&D adventure game. It's been too long for good RPGs these days.
Cons: Large parties are difficult to control in tight spaces.

This game is truly enjoyable to play and there are many areas to explore! The storyline and cut scenes advance the game nicely and the combat is challenging! How you equip your character and how you fight determines your success which is a welcome...

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: 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: great game play, lots of quests.
Cons: there could be a couple more improvements. read and find out.

Baldur’s gate is a game that takes place on the world of Fare’un, also where the cleric quintet, and the Icewind dale books (with drizzit and cadderly) took place, In the same time span. I have met drizzt in BG and cadderly in BG2. I have also met...

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: 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: Excellent music, replayability, and NPCs.
Cons: Encounters are always the same.

Baldur’s Gate is the closest a computer has ever come to actual pen and paper adventuring. The game play is completely non-linear, meaning, the story does not force your character to first accomplish Quest A and then proceed to find Sword B. If you...

Pros: Un-linear story means longer game than japanese R.P.Gs
Cons: Un-linear story means less character development than japanese R.P.Gs

Balder’s Gate is a great Role Playing Game. It has a very free-structured story unlike Japanese style RPGs (like final fantasy), which have a lot less choices. You also have a lot of choice about your character. These mean that you can play the game...

Pros: Began the rebirth of CRPGs
Cons: Showing age

Baldur's Gate is the beginning of the wonderful RPG series from Bioware. The combat system is well designed, but it takes some practice to get used to. Personally I would prefer a true turn based system like the old SSI gold box games, but I realize...

Pros: Single/Multiple Player D&D Rules Forgotten Realms Base
Cons: Well over 100 hours playing time. I doubt you will finish the game without help.

This game was perfect for me. I could play it alone, which was terrific since finding real time players is a chore in my intellect unladen area of the world. I could play it on-line with multiple characters run by other real people.

All of my...

Pros: It's fun and you will like the battle sequences
Cons: It can seem to run a little too long.

If you ever wanted to know what it would be like to play Dungeons and Dragons in a PC format, you need to look no further. In fact, Forgotten Realms has taken the D&D game rules and applied them to their own story. This is a pretty big endeavor since a...

Pros: you can't stop playing once you start
Cons: alienation from friends and loved ones.

What better way to satisfy my cravings than to buy Baldur's Gate for my birthday. At the time, I thought it was a wonderful idea considering that I loved adventure games. The problem became that I loved it to much.

The action/fighting scenes...

Pros: Good graphics, an intense story-line, and plays great attention to the mechanics of roleplaying.
Cons: Needs better character development, Could be longer

It could only be said that this game has revolutionized Roleplaying games. In my opinion (and this is) all roleplaying games should be just like this; and since Bioware and Black Isle are digging thier claws into the PC video game industry, I think they...

Pros: Blew away any RPG I've ever played, set new industry standards
Cons: Some glitches, too many Fed-Ex type quests.

It's pretty safe to say that the PC RPG market was taking it in the rear from Console RPG's for a while there. There was an abundance of RPG's for the PC you could find, but a lot of them weren't really that good. The very nice people at Black Isle...