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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Aug 26, 2008
Pros: Immersive game world, great customization on the characters.
Cons: Some bugs, can cause crashes. Pathing isn't the greatest.
Summary: 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. ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 18, 2003
Pros: The new quests and areas are well designed and interesting.
Cons: There just isn't enough extra to make the expansion worth more than $20.
Summary: Regardless of the negative things I heard about it, I gladly bought the Tales Of The Sword Coast expansion pack after finishing the first Baldur's Gate. After all, BG was (and still is) my favorite computer game, and with the TotSC expansion pack, I knew ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 17, 2002
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.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 12, 2002
Pros: The rebirth of great AD&D'ing
Cons: Slightly overrated, Fallout 2 was better
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 7, 2002
Pros: great game play, lots of quests.
Cons: there could be a couple more improvements. read and find out.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 23, 2002
Pros: Very deep play mechanics, a lot of atmosphere, very non-linear, spectacular graphics and sound.
Cons: Rather steep learning curve. VERY challenging.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 30, 2001
Pros: Excellent music, replayability, and NPCs.
Cons: Encounters are always the same.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 21, 2001
Pros: interesting level design, fan-made mod that you can download
Cons: short, costs too much for what you get,
lots of bugs
Summary: This opinion is part of the “Angry as Hell and I don’t want to take it anymore” writeoff hosted by me. The other participants in this writeoff are
erny5796(your wonderful host)
pika312
Lorinsilver
Jeremy1456
B_Campbell
... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 20, 2001
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
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 30, 2001
Pros: Some great new options
Cons: Is it worth the price?
Summary: Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast is an expansion of the original Baldur's Gate, which was rpg game of the year a few years back.
If you have never played the original game Baldur's Gate is a spectacular rpg that brings Dungeons & ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 7, 2001
Pros: More BG
Cons: not enough
Summary: I had high hopes for Tales of the Sword coast, but if did not reach my expectations, perhaps because I am a big fan of the BG series.
First, it’s too short. I had expected to play Tales of the Sword Coast through in about 20 hours, as ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 7, 2001
Pros: Began the rebirth of CRPGs
Cons: Showing age
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 31, 2001
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.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 7, 2001
Pros: It's fun and you will like the battle sequences
Cons: It can seem to run a little too long.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 26, 2001
Pros: you can't stop playing once you start
Cons: alienation from friends and loved ones.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 1, 2001
Pros: Good graphics, an intense story-line, and plays great attention to the mechanics of roleplaying.
Cons: Needs better character development, Could be longer
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 22, 2001
Pros: More Baldur's Gate for the game's big fans
Cons: Not really much new here. Illogical reverse time-travel to fit in additional sub-quests.
Summary: A lot of people accused Bioware of milking a successful formula for all it was worth with the release of Icewind Dale, a game using the same engine as their award winning Baldur's Gate in the months filling the void as we waited in ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 9, 2001
Pros: Blew away any RPG I've ever played, set new industry standards
Cons: Some glitches, too many Fed-Ex type quests.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 26, 2001
Pros: fun, expansive, subquests, lots of characters, AD&D rules, lots of items, nice sound effects
Cons: disc changing, sluggish, repetitive, annoying voice acting
Summary: Baldur's Gate is the first in a long series of games by Black Isle to take the AD&D rules and put them in a game. It does a great job of this, with accurate items and weapons.
The game is huge with a ton of areas to explore and each area is ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 17, 2001
Pros: Great story
Easy interface
Easy to learn
Real AD&D rules
Cons: It can ruin your social life.
Summary: Before I start my opinion, I will tell you, I really am addicted to fantasy. I played D&D on my Commodore 64, almost without graphics and I loved that.
So you can imagine that when I heard about the game I went to the store and bought it ... read more
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