Better to stick with a full six characters on a first play through IMO: some of the later battles get pretty tough and it would be really frustrating for you to get 90% of the way through the game an… (View Post)

Beholders: there are basically two ways of dealing with them (a) buy special anti-beholder shield (which feels like cheating) or (b) do something very cheesy like summon skeleton warriors and wait ro… (View Post)

I'm really torn between early and mid BG1. I love it when the world is dangerous and you can be killed by a crit from a Xvart, so really everything up until you cross that huge bridge and enter the m… (View Post)

The strongest part of the overhaul of the games is the visual side for me. The original Baldur's Gate games were some of the most beautiful I've ever seen: they weren't photo-realistic but they looke… (View Post)

I feel much the same. While many people much prefer BG2 I find the heavy focus on magic battles gets boring after a while and I'm very prone to abandoning BG2 midway through. I've finished 1 many mor… (View Post)