Baldur's Gate
Game » consists of 8 releases. Released Dec 21, 1998
Bioware's first RPG, you must assemble a party of adventurers and investigate the mystery of the iron crisis and a darker threat that looms in the city of Baldur's Gate.
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5 (0) 4 (1) 3 (1) 2 (1) 1 (0) 3.0 starsAverage score of 3 user reviews
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Baldur's Gate 1
Around a decade ago when I was with my Uncle he showed me a game that would change my life forever. Literally. A game that is still my favourite game of all time, and I highly doubt anything would shake it from that position, and thus it was, Baldur's Gate. Okay it isn't a perfect game, and it has an awful lot of problems that I could quite happily beat out of it with a stick, but it's the sheer addictiveness and storyline dragged me in, tied me up, turned the light off and left the light in ...
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Important, but too tedious, flawed and archaic 0
Baldur's Gate is an important game in the history of PC RPGs, but is too tedious, flawed and archaic to wholeheartedly enjoy with a modern gamer's sensibilities and expectations. The 1998 title by Bioware uses a Dungeons & Dragons rule set, which will feel opaque and unnecessarily dense to the uninitiated. In fact, I grew up playing the 16-color "gold box" D&D games by SSI of the late 1980s and early 1990s -- count me among the initiated -- and still felt the D&D elements of Baldur...
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Baldur's Gate - The birthplace of the modern RPG 0
I love RPG's and I love Dungeons and Dragons.Baldur's Gate is what you get when some nerdy game designers do their best to recreate the tabletop experience on a computer in the mid to late 90's.I think they did a pretty great job! The game plays beautifully, still holds up today and offers you an almost perfect opportunity to play the ACTION portion of a table top dungeons and dragons game.Where the game fails is in its story telling. The mechanics for telling a good story are there, the premis...
1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
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