Baldur's Gate

Baldur's Gate

1998
Role-Playing
Baldur's Gate is a role-playing videogame based in the Forgotten Realms, a high fantasy Dungeons & Dragons setting. Players control a protagonist they create, who finds him- or herself travelling across the Sword Coast alongside a party of companions, all of whom the player controls. The player unravels the mystery surrounding a sudden iron scarcity, while also uncovering secrets about the protagonist's origins and dealing with attempts on their life.
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Baldur's Gate

1998
Role-Playing
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Rated 17 Feb 2018
81
76th
The first serious RPG I ever played. The early game is brutal (especially as a wizard), but as you develop your party and explore the world, so many interesting things happen. The sequel was even better. And I love that they are coming out with a lot of clones of this. Also, I'm a huge Forgotten Realms / DnD fan. Baldur's Gate while listening to Smashing Pumpkins more or less defined a summer vacation when I was in high school.
Rated 05 Feb 2018
8
84th
So I kicked him in the head till he was dead nyahahaha!
Rated 23 Feb 2018
80
77th
Classic. Great game. I do prefer turn-based D&D RPGs, but seeing as those fell out of favor I've taken what I can get.
Rated 12 Jun 2018
81
71st
Has less content than BG2 (and perhaps a few too many trash mods, cf Firewine Bridge), but I enjoy the low-level adventuring and the lack of long, linear main quest sections compared to its successor. Like all Infinity Engine titles, the game has an impeccable sense of atmosphere. The Sword Coast Stratagems mods greatly improves the combat experience for all games in this series.
Rated 16 Oct 2020
79
72nd
A big, appealing take on the usual sort of DnD formula. It certainly brought more scale and atmosphere than the Gold Box games of old and their successors could. I was never as wild about the combat in the earliest Infinity Engine games as some, but it was a decent enough system at the time.
Rated 23 Sep 2019
7
77th
Pretty fun. A classic. Icewind Dale took the game's mechanics and made it better.
Rated 25 Apr 2021
90
81st
9/10 because of the internet people who suggest grinding a few levels before taking on the wizard at the Candlekeep Inn. The thought of people wasting 11-16 hours of their life to complete a combat encounter that only exists to teach you how to pause the game warms my heart. Seriously, just pause the game, he's like second level — it only takes one or two hits to beat him.
Rated 02 Jun 2022
90
95th
This game single-handedly redefined what cRPGs could be, with isometric gameplay featuring super-smooth animations over irregular pre-rendered assets rather than tilesets, and the pioneering Realtime-with-Pause combat. It also had a true sense of "open world" exploration that doesn't hold your hand, and satisfying character development. In short - this changed everything.

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