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Awesome roleplaying game! Kept my attention for months.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Really great! Buying part two today. Cant wait to take my character from part one to the next game. Awsome feature that you get to keep your character across different versions.

Classic game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This classic game, was first in the series and one of the most enjoyable.

Good game play.

Good strategy

The draw back is the cap on experience.

I have replayed it a couple of times and enjoyed it each time.

Nearly as good as gaming with friends....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: July 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I take that back. With this, you've eliminated the petty arguments about who was doing what action at which time, if a druid really can cast a protection spell and who ate the DM's last piece of pizza. Deeply engrossing and easy to learn the controls. Just need more %#!@ memory on my computer, but that's hardware, not software.

Can't get the right software...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: January 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I haven't had the chance to play this game yet. It shipped originally with the software for the expasion pack: tales of the sword coast. Tales is a supplement to Baldur's Gate, located on cd 6 (along with the installer for Baldur's Gate). This game is shipping with only the first five cds so I can't even install it. I have returned it twice and have finally asked for a refund.

Great Game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: September 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you are a fan of Dungeons and Dragons role playing games, either the pencil and paper version, or the Gold Box series computer games, then you will love this game. Simply put, it is the greatest computer game I have ever played. Much better than MythII.

No. 1 Best RPG on the Mac

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Like many of the other reviewers here, I received a 5-CD "Tales of the Sword Coast" expansion set without the BG1 installer CD--I sent an email to Graphic Simulations explaining the situation and got a quick response with an apology, followed in a few days by a package in the mail containing the installer CD, completely free of charge--The kind of experience I've come to expect from Mac developers, and the Mac community in general.

NOTE: This is an OS 8/9 game, but the gamer community has come up with a hack, "BG1tutu," which allows you to play it in OS X, using the BG2 engine (BG2 CDs required). (You may have to google around for awhile to find the Mac BG1tutu files, because the old site which was hosting them has shut down.) In OS X it runs much more smoothly than in the Classic Mac OS, with essentially NO crashes or hangs...

I tend to rate games first on their "personality," then gameplay, and lastly, graphics. Think of quirky, character-rich games like Myth II or Gex the Gecko. BG1 has far and away the most memorable characters of any game I have ever played, along with a great storyline, monsters, weapons, spells, and abilities. I avoided this game for years because of all the talk online about how much trouble the whole dice-rolling, character-building, turn-based D&D thing was to learn for a "hack & slash" Diablo fan like me--But that aspect of the game can be essentially automated so that you don't even really even think about it.

At this point in time the 2D graphics are definitely old-school, but I find the meticulous, lovingly hand-painted artwork of BG1 to be far more enjoyable than the blocky, impersonal, polygonal 3D forms of Neverwinter Nights or Dungeon Siege. With "non-MMO" RPGs for the Mac almost extinct (with the exception of Jeff Vogel's Geneforge and Avernum series), BG1 is a must-play for any fan of this genre. I know that BG2 is often rated higher than the original, but the first one is still my favorite...

Won't run on 64mb

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 24
Date: August 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Hi,

I have been waiting for this game for 8months. I received it the other day and quickly found out that even thought the box says 64mb required, which I have, it will not run for long without crashing, taking the mac with it. I run a 350mhz iMac with ati128rage, and 64mb ram , tons of disk space. So I am very disappointed with this product. When it works it's great, but that is not often. Maybe I will send it back and get Diablo II!

Don't believe it until you see it!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 41
Date: June 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This mythical game has been "due any day now" for a whole year! If you want to order it, be prepared to sit, wait, and be disappointed!

Awesome game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 19
Date: July 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I don't own this game as of yet, but every time that I see it I wish it was available to me. This game from the moment I saw it advertised on the Internet grabbed me and made me want it. I have been waiting too long for it to be released. I just have to get my wife to let me buy it. I love roll playing games. Very well thought out plot and awesome graphics. Put this game out quickly please. Joe Aliso Viejo, Ca.

Too unstable to be truly enjoyable

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: October 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

In between marveling at the glories of the AD&D I remember playing in my youth tranformed into a very complex and deep computer game, I get to sit through endless reboots of my system. I play this on a 256M RAM, 600 MHz iMac running MacOS 9.2.1 and goosed the game RAM assignment by 10,000K --still it is horribly, disappointingly unstable.

If you take the plunge, save frequently!

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