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Not terrible...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: December 22, 1999
Author: Amazon User

...but not as good as all the hype. I found the combat very irritating, as far as controlling all the characters. I spent half the game hitting the pause key. A lot of the quests were pretty dull, same old thing. I only finished it because I'd already spent so much time. I think if you enjoy D and D, you'd love this game, but I always found D and D very boring. I MUCH preferred Fallout 2 to this game--for me, that was the RPG of the year!

Why does everyone like this game?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: May 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I used to be a D&D geek. I would rather play any plain old dungeon crawl than this game. Sure it may use the official rules, but this game seems to run as slowly on my PIV 1.3g as it does on my PII 300m. What's up with that? I'm sure Interplay would blame it on both my hardware configurations.

Further, I love role playing games as much as the next guy, but why do these people say they're going to use the official rules, and then try to make this game seem like a real-time game. The game is turn-based. Why not leave it at that? You can hit the attack button all you want in Baldur's Gate, but you never know when you're character will actually attack. Am I missing something or does everyone else writing reviews for this game work for Interplay?

Reality Check

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 19
Date: January 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Let's be serious. The idea of a good computer game from TSR is enough to make any D&D fan take notice, and they came SO close. But they failed in the most important part of it all. D&D is all about interacting with other players, and the multiplayer aspect of the game is simply terrible. It's impossible to do anything if you are not the main character, (the idea that there would even be a main character in a D&D game is insulting to all the players of the real game,) because whatever he does screws up whatever you are trying to do, even if you're not even on the same screen. It's not fun to follow someone else around the screen. Single player play is fair, but again, its all about playing with other people. Buyers beware.

Terrible packaging, disk often unusable. Only buy in store!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

While the game is a great deal of fun. The reason I rated it only 3 stars is that the packaging is so terrible, the disks are often damaged. It is packaged in a poorly designed cardboard contraption with lots of rubber cement. It falls apart in storage and shipping, so you end up getting disks covered in goo that is impossible to remove. I had to ship mine back. I went out and got it at a local store, made them open the package and check for goo damage. Sure enough, they had to open 4 (!) before they finally found one that was intact and clean. Great game, poor package design. Buy it, but buy it in a store so you can be sure you get a set of clean disks. Save yourself the dissapointment. It seems to be only this, the first Baldur's Gate that has the trouble. We have all the others and they are wonderful in every way.

mmmm....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It's nice, but you have to earn ALOT of experience to go up just one level and the monster don't give you much. You don't get alot of money. You get alot of party memebers really fast, they're helpful but die really fast. It's okay.

RPG fans got a great payback...after a long while of waiting

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 03, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Well, I love playing Computer games...and my favourite is RPG. I have played a lot of them since the good old days when the gold box games ruled...until Ultima series..and a lot more

But since not many "good" games released in the past few years, I'm dying waiting to a good one. And Baldur's Gate is that one. This game has all the things any great games should have, the great story line, huge world to explore, non-linear plot, hundreds of Non-Play Characters to interact with...along with nice graphics and music & sound.

Now, I feel so good.. after a very long long time of waiting....and finally.. Baldur's Gate had saved my life

A Top Adventure!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game a year after it's release. I knew nothing about this game and the reason I bought it was because it was on sale. My initial reaction when I played it was the quality of the graphics. I own a P133 and have not experienced games of like this before. I soon found my self hooked. The game is unbelievable! It does take a bit of time to get into, but once you're in, you just don't want to get out! The game is massive and the story draws you in, you get the feeling that your in the game and you feel the urge to do well. I haven't played any of the other Bioware games like BG2 because of my PC specs but I would advice any RPG fan to buy this straight away. It's just TOPS!!

Baldurýs Gate!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

In one word - Wow! This game is simply one of the best adventures I've across. I've just finished playing the first two introductory chapters of Baldur's Gate, which is all that is available in my city. I'm in love with this game. This game provides the kind of classic adventuring experience I've always longed for in as many adventure games I've played so far. The wait ended with Baldur's Gate. Very many thanks to its developers.

For how much ever I've played of it the game is simply superb. It reminded me a lot of previously played games like Diablo and one of my very first short time adventure game Dink Smallwood by RT Soft.

What I find most interesting about this game are the variety of character classes allowed from which to select your character type and adding and removing team members. Sometimes deciding over this itself will take a lot of your time. The plot of the game looks great and its many twists n turns are quite shocking! Besides the main plot you also have many side quests. The graphics are very pretty and one look at the homes and Inn's cannot help but remind me of Dollhouses.

I'm sure this game is a hot favorite with all adventure fans. 5 STARS!

Best RPG Ever!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Linear plot line, good characters, and very well taken from the original AD&D game! A must have for all RPG and gaming fans alike!

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Graphics are great, gameplay is excellent, wide variety of character types to choose from, lots of different kinds of weapons and armor, lots of sidequests, great replay value. That said, like any game, it has a couple of problems. Bad computer intelligence. You can be fighting a strong warrior, and have one guy run in circles while the other five hit him with arrows and missile weapons, and the guy you're fighting won't ever stop chasing that one dude. That makes parts of the game a little too easy. The other problem i've noticed is that sometimes it gets to where you can't do something without worrying about messing up. When you talk to guys, you have to be careful or the flaming fist (law enforcement) will come and kill you, or you might accidently miss a powerful item. The last problem with the game is the leveling up. The exp. cap only lets you get to around level 8 or 9 by the end of the game. All in all, the pros definitely outweigh the cons. This game is one of the best I've played. It's definitely worth buying for a true rpg fan.

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