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Baldur's Gate

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- The best game ever?! Give me a break!
Baldurs Gate is an entertaining game, but a great one? No way. It has too many major flaws to be a great game.

1. The AI of the characters that you control is quite possibly the worst AI in the history of computer games. The characters can't move more than an inch on the screen without getting out of the marching order. The path making functions for the characters to go from point A to point B is pathetic!!! Sometimes characters will wander around the screen aimlessly, or get stuck in a corner when you need them somewhere. This tends to get your characters severely injured or killed. It is a major annoyance. This game is designed to run in real-time, with the ability to pause, but because of the terrible AI, you find yourself pausing the game every two seconds to micromanage your characters. So much for real-time combat. Turn-based would have been better.

2. This game has scores of encounters that swiftly slaughter your party with no chance whatsoever of you surviving the first encounter. The only way to get past these points is to reload your previous save game, which you will find yourself doing more than a thousand times. After you reload, you cast a bunch of spells to make your characters more powerful, and redo the encounter. After trying enough times, you win. What is the problem with that, you ask? It is pointless to use your wits to better prepare yourself for the unexpected, because the unexpected will easily wipe you out, and you can then reload anyway. It's almost like "cheating". Where's the challenge in that?

3. The game is pretty stingy with experience points. 50-60 hours of gameplay only moves you up about 5 or 6 levels.

4. The inventory system gets annoying. Not enough slots, and a gemstone takes up as much space as a suit of armor. (Supposedly, this has been taken care of in BG2).

On the upside, the combat is fun when things go your way, especially the visual and sound effects created by the spells (I always wanted to know what an exploding fireball looks like). Also, I thought that the plot of the game was very good. The game has a lot of quests and sidequests, which make it nicely nonlinear.

Baldurs Gate is a fun game, but it's too tedious to be a great one.

Rating:

- It must be me
Well, since so many others seem to love this game, the reason I don't like it must have something to do with me! I just could not get the hang of it, especially the combat. Maybe if I had devoted a little more time to it, I would have gotten it finally, but I just didn't want to spend all of my time learning how to play - I just wanted to play!

Also, I didn't really like the non-linear storyline - I like to have a sense that I am going the right way at the right time. But that's just my personal preference.

Rating:

- To Battle!...
This game is worth it! Graphics are great story is great, but it needs more characters! And definitely more classes (Ex: Fighter or a Mage) But otherwise this game is great for all RPG (Fantasy) Fans. The only thing to that sets this back from a perfect score...is it's installation. It is way to much for my computer, and it went way to slow that I had a hard time getting through battles with out dying! I dont recommend this game if you have little RAM and Computer Space. Otherwise, this game is for all!

Rating:

- Merely very good, as opposed to the sequel
I just cannot help comparing this game with BG2, which makes it look sort of incomplete, with lots of wasted potential. But if I just think of it as its own game, there is no doubt it is worth five stars.

A few years back, I got interested in AD&D, but never really managed to even properly try to get into it; I am hardly a sociable kind of person, and would not have even known what to do. Anyway, I think I got Planescape: Torment some time afterwards; it satisfied my need for computer roleplaying but not AD&D style fantasy stuff; it was too nonstandard. BG, which I acquired some time later, was all but. It was like a real epitome of Tolkien-imitation fantasy, and very nearly everything I had wanted (and everything that was missing, and more, I found in BG2 later on).

In BG, which is situated in an extremely standard (and well-made) fantasy world and applies an extremely standard (and well-made) rpg rule system, you start out with a level 1 character, a complete weakling (particularly if you are a wizard) at first who becomes powerful in the normal fashion, whose role you're supposed to play, and a number of other, pre-made (as opposed to the PC, whom you can determine to be exactly as you want) characters can join you later on. Then you go around solving a mystery - which makes for a pretty decent plot, and a very good later on when certain surprising elements appear to it - and doing lots of completely optional quests; it is easy to achieve the maximum experience point amount for all characters - at least if you do not change them too often - long before the end.
The interpretation of the AD&D rules seems well-nigh perfect, the graphics are good, the sounds and musics nice, and the only thing that is really bad is the "pathfinding AI" of the characters, which makes them go the wrong way most of the time when in small, confined spaces.

There are some minor faults, such as that, sort of realistically but very inconveniently, the game unpauses when going into the inventory screen, or that, while the NPCs that can join your party have clear personalities, they rarely interact with you or anyone or react to anything, but these can be forgiven - and have almost all been fixed in BG2.

BG2 is yet much, much better than this game, but play it anyway, and then continue with the same character into that sequel which this original game is really just a prelude to.

And a final *W*A*R*N*I*N*G*!*: There is something in this game's plot that is only revealed in the end, though it is hinted at all the time. Do not read reviews of BG2 - or even these reviews here for some of them, made by amateurs as they are, reveal it - before you have found it out yourself. It, and initially not knowing it, is rather the idea of the whole game.

Rating:

- funfunfun
This game was my very favorite until BG2 came out. I've finished it at least 5 times, and will probably play it again in the future. I didn't find anything wrong with this game.

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