Genre: RPG | Players: 1 - 6 (multiplayer available) | Developer: BioWare
Set in Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms, you play a young orphan with mysterious abilities, hunted down by a mysterious organization, for mysterious reasons and who goes on to become one big pain in the ass for said organization. Seriously, no way to sum up the plot without spoiling like a madman.
Back when Baldur's gate was released, it was one of the first games in that new generation of computer medieval fantastic RPG / Hack'n'Slash games, with Diablo and a few others. BG offered a freedom of action completely new at the time, with choices that had real impacts on the story, along with great graphics, a compelling story and beautiful music. Drawbacks were the AI of both your companions and enemies, and the overall difficulty, as it was quite easy to get killed multiple times in the first 2 hours. The game was hard. Really hard. And boy was that a challenge.
An extension was released afterward ("Tales of the Sword Coast"), with new quests, new stuff and new shitheads to kill. A great game, still available, and an HD remake seems to be in the works.
4½ "I'll stick that sword up your ass and turn you into a brochette" out of 5.
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Available on PC, Mac, and GOG.com.
Nutted by Docrate1 (If he comes at you with a sword ... run.)
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