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MAY BE A GOOD GAME BUT I WOULDN'T KNOW

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: April 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When I received this game I opened it up and right away started installing it, but wait in all the excitement i didn't notice it being in the cardboard CD holder and because it was the installation wouldnt work why? Cause the CD was scratched beyond repair. Good job Interplay. I will right another reveiw when I receive my new package telling you if the game is as bad as Interplay's packing job.

It must be me

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: December 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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.

horribl game, at least

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 20
Date: January 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is down right horrible, i mean i couldn't install it because the cd's were all scratched, i had to buy a new copy and luckily that worked (not to mention the 3 times it froze while installation)the battle system is horrible and the questes are so stupid the monsters are the same through-out the whole game and there is like no action at all. if u want a high action easy battle system andgreat online play get Diablo 2 and/or the LOD (Lord of Destruction) expansion set

Is it possible to fall asleep playing a game?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 35
Date: December 08, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I purchased Baldur's Gate because the graphix looked awesome and I had heard some very positive things about this game from various sources. I was very disappointed. This game takes forever to get to the action. I walked around for days easily slaying enemies, talking to people with lengthy dialogues that I didn't care to read, and got lost way too much for my taste. The battles were pathetic and easily winnable until the final battle where I was slain in a matter of seconds.

The turn-based style of fighting is terrible. Having to control six players gave me a headache. Having a limited number of spells and having to sleep to regain your spells is a very bad idea. The monsters were horible. There were no new monsters as you continue deeper and deeper into the game. There were far too many quests where all you did was walk, maybe slay a weak enemy, then walk a whole lot more to solve the quest. I know this is an rpg, but please, give me some action.

I did like the character generation process and like the ability to build up a character then import it into a new game. I also like being able to dual-class or multi-class characters. I feel this adds something to the game that other rpgs' miss.

I would recommend this game to any AD&D fan because it's the same boring garbage that you guys like. However, if you are an action junkie and really loved Diablo as I did then don't waste your money.

I just wonder why there are not more games in the style of Diablo. I see many trying to copy it, but doing a poor job at this.

I'd give a review of the game -- if it worked

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 19
Date: January 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I can't review the actual game itself. See, when I got the package, it was in perfect condition. As was the box. However, Interplay decided that 20 cents was too much to spend on a jewel case, and 3 cents was too much to spend on a sleeve. So they put the disks in what has got the be the saddest excuse for a CD container I've seen in my life. This... thing... had paper edges that almost looked like they were designed to scratch the CDs. They don't actually hold the CDs in, though, and they fall out if at all possible. Of the five CDs, ALL of them were visablly damaged, and two were IMO seriously damaged. On top of the scratches, the first CD had some sort of mark on it which I later found out to be some sort of substance on the CD, not a scratch. I neither know, nor care what it is. Despite trying to repair the CDs, the installation CD still freezes my system if I try to install it. If Interplay can't design a working BOX, I have my doubts they can design a half-way decent GAME.

very angry

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: June 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

i was totally into the game and finally entering baldur's gate for the first time when i found out that the 5th cd was scrached and every time i entered the city or tried anything on the 5th cd the game would freeze and now i am not able to finish the game. i agree with anybody who says the black isle took little concern in making the cd's work, the first cd had something, i didn't know what it was, the customer service didn't know what it was, and i had to spend almost 15 mintues rubbing my cd with rubbing alcohol to get this...crap ofmy cd and make it run. although the game is great i would not remomend taking the gamble with your money and hope that you get a game with 5 usable cd's, good luck though

Hold On Not An Award Winner!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 25
Date: December 24, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I bought this, but I should have saved my money. The combat system stinks. PEOPLE YOU CANNOT CONTROL MORE THAN ONE PERSON during realtime combat, if you think you can imagine controlling multiple characters during any of your favorite shooters, while each is being attacked at the sametime. Game developers who thinks so need to get out of the business. The only way to give you a chance is to dum down the AI making the whole combat experience pointless. Settings allow automatic pauses for different events, character wounded, etc, but this made the combats VERY painful. I like RPGs that allow multiparty groups, turn-based or phased-based combat systems aka Wizardy or Might and Magic are the only answer. Also the movement system is among the worst I have seen. I cannot tell you how many times the different members of my party chose different routes to the same spot. Usually causing one of them being attacked and killed before I could get them regrouped. All-in-All great graphics, good story, shame about the mechanics. I would have given it a D- and not RPG of the year.

Its starts off great then hits a glass ceiling.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: August 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Maybe it is because I have a Mac version but I was really really enjoying this game when my band of characters stopped going up in experience levels. I contacted the company but was told that that is just the way the game is. Yes, I do like a challenge but I play computer games to relax too and without an advancement in level I don't see how to win this game. I was very very disappointed.

Good (for the first 30 mins)

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 18
Date: June 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Okay so a couple year ago I bought this game hearing all the rave about it I thought I would be in for loads of fun. I was wrong I only got to the mines (one of the first levels) and kept dying. This game has a good story and characters but it takes forever to grow a level (get stronger) and the levels are close to impossible. If you want a real RPG get Diablo 2 it has great multiplayer and loads of fun. Or for those of you that cant play M rated games you should get Final Fantasy 7. Peace out and I hope that I just saved you the grief of buying this extremely boring game.

Horrid controls

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 12 / 25
Date: January 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

i don't know why others rate this so highly - the graphics are OK, i love the fact that you can play with friends (although in the end are different schedules ruined this) and i like importing my own pictures. But the controls for this game are absolutely frustrating!

Some minor gripes: the manual doesn't have enough info, combat used to be a MAJOR pain until i stumbled over the pause commands (and had to play with them to figure out which ones to set), having the main character enter a store makes life frustrating for other LAN players, the plot doesn't seem multiplayer friendly (you lose all those NPCs which are important to the story - the party is so small), the maps don't make a ton of sense, group movement can be really annoying and my number one complaint: you can't use arrow keys to move your character! i know, it sounds minor, but the view screen is only large enough to show a few tiles, so you have to scroll the screen, click a destination point, by which time your guy has already walked there so you scroll some more, repeat - it gets so that you never actually see your character because you're so busy setting way points for him to walk. At a minimum, if you have to play this carpal-tunnel torture of moving your characters leg by leg, you should at least be able to make the screen center on the character - the little guy just walks off the screen and you don't know where he went. At a minimum, let me see more of the map at one time - i have a 19" monitor and prefer looking at what's happening rather than the large pretty pictures some artist drew.

The plot's OK, the D&D system is pretty sophisticated, there's some real polish in places and we've needed a good RPG for a while (i LOVED Fallout, which had lousy, but still vastly superior, map and movement controls), so i got the game the very first day it was released (xmas eve), and my roommates and i played it for 2 weeks, but eventually i got so sick of the control scheme that i just erased the frustrating thing

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