Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition

Its a classic game (read bad graphics) but the story and flexibility make up for it.

I've been playing this game since release in 2000. Started playing it with my dad and we played for ages until he passed 5 years ago. This game is amazing and will always remind of my old man. The story telling is great. The DnD base it provides translates so well to even current editions. This game is worth the 3000+ hours and even more.

Epic sequel adventure that lead to a lot of endless hours of playing through with different styles of play. Doesn't have as epic of a story as BG3, but I still love the rule set from this period and prior.

Does have a few annoying bugs but nothing to bad and if needed there is some command prompt entries to fix them such as party AI issues and a 3rd party program you can use to fix or get around some of them other ones. But I rarely run into anything but the AI issue that occurs after importing your party from BG1.

This quiet little game is like, really strange and stuff, but it's the type that I probably wouldn't have even noticed if it wasn't for the ads and the first entry. In retrospective, it probably would have blended okay enough with other generic RPG's in the market. Only once you compare it to other RPG's like Greedfall, Deus Ex, Wasteland 3 or even Persona 2 for example, does BG:II stand out in a particularly odd way.

It's also annoying, for the game does so in a way that makes it highly inconvenient for gamers to pinpoint on how it happens and why, and this effect is achieved naturally by default, meaning you are exposed to BG:II's effects whether you want to or not. You then have the choice to either deny BG:II's existence and spend the rest of your life attempting to disprove it as a highly elaborate CIA psyop, or accept it as a real game. Either way BG:II is always there, always.

I realize I sound cryptic and confusing, but I can't just be direct about these things. It should be common sense really, IT SHOULD BE... like when you close the window when it's too windy outside, or when you hold the elevator for someone, or when you follow any of the rules of our human society as it is mandated by its constituents and the established cultural norms. What does it have to do with BG:II? Good question.

It's not so much what BG:II does, but what it doesn't. Say if your Canadian neighbor(s) just never pays gas money or files taxes, and otherwise is a seemingly normal and stable person that you may even get along with sometimes. But there's always a gnawing sensation that something is deeply wrong. You say hi to them in the morning and afternoon, you shake their hand, you even have tea and biscuits in their house. They have a cat and everything seems to be in order as you make small talk and discuss your daily ventures.

The topic then inevitably shifts to taxation and gas money, and that's when you begin to feel that pit in your stomach, the churning sensation of some deep cosmic horror looming in the dark. You want to get up, you want to run for the door and call the IRS. You want to piss on their automobile to make a stance that it's just not fair.

But you can't, as your neighbor brings out yet ANOTHER batch of delicious homemade oatmeal biscuits and some lemon juice, furthermore their cat is cuddly and snuggles up in your lap for a moment. You simply can't do anything here. Who will believe you anyway? What will you tell them? Can you prove any of this? Hypothetically, if the whole city thought the same, what difference would it make? These questions go through your mind on repeat as anxiety ramps up to a point you're nearly having a full-blown panic attack.

You come up with some lame excuse for leaving. "Yeah so like... Trump just won the election and I don't feel so good... see ya later" - you utter under your breath like a child caught red-handed trying to steal from the cookie jar. Your face is swollen with injured pride and your legs barely serve to bring you to the front door as you try to forget any of this happened. It was just a "dream" you tell yourself, "I was sleeping, or maybe my neighbor was sleeping! AH!", "or maybe... they are AUTISTIC!" - you come up with a series of highly elaborate excuses for what you just witnessed, none satisfying enough to ease the existential dread that is forever burned in your memory. A part of you is aware that you have stepped over the permissible boundaries of conventional reality, you walked out of the "allowed area" in which humanity gets to play in, and crossed the border to another place, a darker place where reality does not obey your own.

As you make your way home, the bittersweet taste of sour lemon and oatmeal lingers in your teeth and gums. You fall on your bed, exhausted and confused. As you turn on the television, there's some crap about Donald Trump being the 47th President of the USA.

"What a strange world we live in!" you think to yourself before falling asleep.

Old school isomorphic, and the graphics have not dated well but still fun to play!

Baldur's Gate II is a classic and a masterpiece. Any enthusiast of party-based RPGs owes it to themselves to play it.

Only bought it because i was too poor to buy BG3..

Needless to say.. its boring.

This is not a perfect RPG, but it still better than Baldur's Gate III much more.

Amazing story, good mechanics, on a slightly dated graphics engine. Worth a play or replay.

Play this, yes, play this if you are coming back from Baldur's Gate 3. Skip one, play this. Two things I have to tell you, having never played BG2 before EE. For one, The levels are much fairer in baldur's gate 2, this game feels better than 1. Having your first High Level Abilities is amazing and all. The second is a terrible bug I want to catalog. You may trigger a save-corrupting dialogue box error in only Throne of Bhaal, the expansion, and only in multiplayer. I googled the hell out of this and there is barely a fix. The game is swell otherwise and a total trip for someone who is seeing old references and jokes that games like World of Warcraft will later imitate. But man I am so disappointed to redo all of chapter 8 and now have to be wary for a potential dialog issue. Oh, we think the issue is from an NPC being stuck as approaching us for conversation and then being stuck trying to talk.

Although I like the first game better, this one is still very good. The quests and character interactions are elaborate and entertaining.
While the ToSC of BG1 was nice, only the base BG2 is good - ToB is just dumb fighting and "Go and kill" storry.

Would not recommend. LGBT+ messages have been added on top, with no relation or purpose to the story. The original game was a masterpiece of storytelling, this is a derivative work, violating the original game in order to further an extreme leftist agenda, like so many modern games. Let's hope the gaming industry manages to purge these subversive elements that seek only to destroy what others have created.

This is a classic. I'd probably hate it if I didn't grow up playing it.

- Investigate a murderer!
- Find his house
- Murderer in house
- Find out he killed in self defense
- Turns out he has a complex family legacy revolving around powerful magic
- Use his blood to open a door into a giant ball in the middle of the city that is fused with the buildings a la sci fi
- Get locked inside the ball
- Turns out ball is a giant space ship that travels to different dimensions
- The ball ship goes through the floor into the depths of hell while you're in it
- Build a golem to open the door into the inner control room
- Find murderer's dad
- Beat him down, then find out he was corrupted by evil energy
- He tells you that in order to get back home you need a demon heart to refuel the engine
- Enter hell's abyss itself and kill a demon, take its heart
- Go back to the ball ship and put demon heart into the engine
- Now the ball ship has power, so talk to the murderer's dad and fly back to the normal world
- Escape, and choose whether or not you want to allow murderer's dad to see the light of day after being trapped in the ball for 500 years
- Dad dies, you escape.

That is one side quest. One single side quest.

Does a great job in capturing the feel of D&D. Mechanics are smooth, fights are well structured with multiple solutions and working with a team means tons of variety in game play with the various characters available.

The best roleplaying game of all time, a classic and an absolute masterpiece.

Gather your party and venture forth on the adventure of a lifetime.

It's the sequel to the OG. It's surprisingly better in every way.

I played this on CD-ROM back in the day. Still a great game. Because it was never really about insane graphics or twitch gameplay it aged really well.

Of course I recommend this game. I did when it came out the first time. Great game limited by limits of it's time but groundbreaking non the less.

One of the first RPGs that really opened my eyes and peak Bioware.

Still a great story and fun game after so many years!

If you like the original Baldur's Gate then this is very much more of the same. I really enjoyed it, especially the fact you can import your character from Baldur's Gate 1 and continue their story in this one. The Voice acting is great and the overall aesthetics are top tier.

I will play this one again.

One of the very best RPG games in the history of the world. However, Steam doesn't want me to own the trading cards, so this game is poor quality. I am just as fair as Steam is.

It's quite fun but you'd play Baldur's Gate 1 first to follow through the history.
It is a game of fighting for good; or evil if that is what you like.
Puzzles to solve; mysteries to be had.
Enjoy!

best game, no notes 10/10

Before you play any Baldur's Gate, understand: This is was the bar BG3 aspired to. This was the sequel that beat the original BG. This was peak DnD gaming short of tabletop. It's still great. It will always be great.

A classic for a reason and well worth going back to. That said, it is very old so be prepared for the lack of some quality of life stuff we now take for granted.

What can I say? It's my favorite game of all time, the one I've played over and over again even before I had a steam account.

Maybe not for everybody, but the perfect 10/10 game for me

It remains the standard to which all RPGs comapre against ... including BG3 :)

A pinnacle of gaming achievement and quite possibly my favourite game of all time. It captured me as a child and never let me go.

Butt-kicking for goodness!

Good. Nothing else to say.

I just love the baldur gates series, and this one could'nt be any diferent if you like D&D make sure to try this one out

Aged horribly go play dnd insted or bg3

Met a female Drow in a brothel to draft battle plans in the Underdark, then she forces you to do the naughty deed with her.

Lost my wife and the IRS took all my money for a cup of coffee.

10/10 game for Shadows of Amn so far.

Best elder milennial trans friendly game out there.

Buggy mess. Hit a game breaking bug that prevented me from progressing. AI sucks balls. Clunky to maneuver. I think I remember like 800 years ago liking this game and at first if started off decent and kept my attention for a bit, but after I couldn't progress further, I decided to do a few remaining side quests that turned out to be as much of a disappointment finding out that you can't progress without dumping a party member to add an NPC...that you likely already dismissed because you made your own party. I may watch some YouTube vids to remember how this game ended, but I'm now throwing in the towel.

An amazing game for old school D&D fans, and a challenge for anyone willing to face it!

This game is freaking awesome. I played before BG3 and it got me hooked on the playstyle mechanics of adventuring and looting and exploration. It is deeply engrossing and it got me hooked like skuma.

Been playing BG2 since it came out. Enhanced edition is a great improvement for modern PCs. Still easy to mod with WeiDU, and there's tons of great content out there. One of the most replayable CRPGs ever. I personally prefer this style of 3rd-person combat, and I like the auto-pause that essentially enables turn-based combat. I also like the 1.x-2.X approach of rolling stats, multi-classing, etc. The old NPCs still give tons of flavor, and new ones offer new content in the form of quests. The addition of Black Pits arena combat is fun, too.

Don't expect HD or 3D, and don't look for cosmetics -- you're just a sprite, not a fully modeled toon. Also, you're on an isometric screen with background graphics, not a rendered model, so don't look for screen rotation, tight zoom, etc. You'll find more story, less flash. And if you think it's taking too long to walk across the screen, make sure you've boosted your frame rate.

An obvious classic. Loving as much now as I did when I was a child.

"While I like Baldur's Gate 1 better, Baldur's Gate 2 is just as amazing and can even be argued as the better game. Both are great CRPGs and should be played by any CRPG enthusiast."

Genuinely one of the most enjoyable, well written and designed CRPGs that exist to date. I strongly recommend playing BG1 first as you can then port your character into BG2 and continue the adventure.

Play the game as it is the first couple of goes, then consider some mods, as they really add a lot of flavour.

The game is very replayable, with multiple companions, romance and stronghold options, story branches and quests. I will honestly recommend this to any fan of RPG games - please give it a shot, if you stick to it you will not regret it.

Reviewing every game I've played in Steam Library. Game 3

Sadly this game is very dated and I just could not get into it. Also had issues getting friends into it to play. Sadly I can't recommend this game unless you're looking for nostalgia or want to experience the full story etc.

Very sad i cant get myself into this game as I've heard it was a amazing. I should have probably played it sooner.

Best to get Baldurs Gate 3 and start with that instead.

● 5 dakika oynadığıma bakmayın. Küçükken ne yazık ki crack'leyip oynamıştım. Baldur's Gate III bu gün GOTY aldıysa tek sebebi bu oyundur.

Core rules, no friend left behind

The best role playing game I have ever played. So far...

I invested a lot of time in Baldur's Gate one. But for some reason I bounced off its sequel. Maybe I had played the first one too much. Maybe I didn't like the idea of starting over again. The graphics aren't much better. The gameplay isn't changed (characters still have trouble pathfinding and casting spells) and the action is still so fast you have to pause every 2 seconds so you don't get to enjoy seeing things play out.

A classic. Its an Amazing game for its time. If you like the classics you'll love this game.

Great multiplayer. Enhanced Edition added a lot of new content and story lines.

Very very fun game. Excellent story so far. It builds off of the previous game in the series very well.