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There Will be no Installer

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: July 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

There is no installer included!!! If you buy this you will be forced to buy Tales of the Sword Coast expansion, just to be able to install it. If you are looking to buy this game, then buy the BG/Tales combo pack. Please listen to my words and do not be as dissapointed as i was.

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.

Read the bad reviews!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: February 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If I had only read the reviews that said the game has no installer, I would have saved myself a bundle of money on this garbage.

This is my story: A friend gave me Baldur's Gate II as a gift and I'm the type of person that has to do #1 before #2 so I bought this... without reading the reviews.

This "game" has no installer. They call this a "game" and Tales of the Sword Coast the expansion pack. But that is a lie. This is an expansion pack - you can NOT play it unless you buy the other! I wrote the company requesting either an installer or my money back and they didn't even give me the simple courtesy of a response. On principle, I refuse to buy the so-called expansion pack now. Their false advertising tricking me into buying this will not be rewarded by me buying the other now.

BTW, I went ahead and played Baldur's Gate II: Shadow of Amn, and it is awesome.

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!

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!

No installer included

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 15
Date: January 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a complete rip-off! If you buy this game you will not be able to install it unless you buy "Tales of the Sword Coast." But they don't tell you this on the box or on this web-site. Don't buy this game!

Sorry, it's a little late!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: August 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

While Baldur's Gate is an exceptional game, it is to little to late. This game cannot compete with Diablo II. If you are going to spend you're hard earned money on a game, buy Diablo II. It has beter graphics, plot, and is by far the better game. Graphic Simulations took so much time that when they finally released the game, they had to deal with Blizzard's epic game. All I can say is, "Sorry, Graphic Simulations... you should have kept your deadlines... it would have made you more sales in the end."

STUPID GAME

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: April 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I found this game frustriating in the extreme. In play it was hard to go anywhere in the game, but I'll never truly know because it continually crashed my computer until I was so fed up I uninstalled it. The little play I did accomplish wasn't enough to get me hooked, so I haven't bothered to reinstall... such is life.

Computer role-playing grows up again.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 45 / 55
Date: November 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

In the late 1980s and the early 1990s, when most AD&D games were still published by SSI in varying Gold Box series, you were pretty much limited to a specific set of interpretations to the AD&D rules. While Baldur's Gate still follows AD&D basic rules (though the second edition, I believe), it has done so in a much more free-flowing, indepedent way. Combat has solidified and become less innately hack-and-slash. If you're a role-playing fan, or you have a soft spot in your heart for the classic Gold Box series that fueled computer role-playing for so long, don't miss this modern descendent.

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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