Maybe I'll Get To Play This Someday

I had the pre-update version, had played it for an hour or two, found it crashy and not intuitive but entertaining, intended to get back to it. When the update came out in the last few weeks, it was so huge that it wouldn't download (more than 3gb is enormous for an iPad app; most apps update that amount of material from within the app itself, using it as a shell for new data). I deleted the previous version in the hope that my problem was that there was only about a gb of space left on my tablet (my bad, but there was nothing else I was willing/able to temporarily delete), but I was still unable to download and install the new version. iTunes no longer allows side-loading a PC download of an app to ameliorate this issue, so I seem to be out of luck for now. Update: I appreciate the offer of investigation/assistance, but I fixed the issue myself and updated my review! It required a hard erase-and-reset of my iPad, which isn't that bad with an iCloud backup. I did it for other reasons than to get this particular app working, but it does seem to have solved the problem and allowed me to download the updated version. The information might help anyone else who's having a similar problem.

Buy it - This is one of the greatest games ever made

If you’ve stumbled upon this game at random, without having played the PC version when it came out long ago, you’re in for a treat. This is not just some random indie game developed for iOS. In fact, you’ve stumbled upon what is widely regarded as one of the greatest, if not the greatest,computer RPGs of all time. It came out originally in the early 2000s, but is still ranked as one of the best of all time on Metacritic. Even with its dated graphics it holds up to the likes of Skyrim, etc., with ease. The game is complex, rich, and colorful. And for a first-time player it will be quite challenging, which is a good thing. If you can get past the somewhat dated graphics, you will be addicted. And frankly, even though the graphics are somewhat dated, they still provide a strong overall aesthetic that in my opinion provides players with a much greater impression of them places the graphics represent than MANY games with far more advanced and modern graphical engines. Many new games just don’t give you the vibe. So don’t let that stop you from diving in. Enjoy.

Best iOS game I've played

This is easily the best game I’ve played on iOS. This series is new to me, as I never played on PC. To new players: 1) This is a fairly complex and time-consuming game. 2) I recommend playing BG1 first, as it was too overwhelming for me starting with BG2. BG1 is simpler and has a nice tutorial for new players, which BG2 doesn’t have. (On the downside, BG1 maps tend to have a lot of “empty” space in their outdoor maps, so using online maps with BG1 are nice in order to see where the interesting points are.) The most frustrating part of this game is the spell system, as there are so many spells to potentially learn and understand. BUT, you really can delve as much or as little into it as you want, as using a fighter heavy groups is totally viable (the Inquisitor and Berserker classes can help in certain ways here), and you can always adjust the difficult setting as easy or as hard as you want at any time. So, if you want a top-quality Role Playing Game and don’t mind some complexity and putting in a little time, I expect you’ll have a great experience playing Baulder’s Gate.

Not a casual game. Worth every penny. Play for years.

If you are reading this having never heard of this game, know that it is considered by many to be the best RPG of all time. Like, in the realm that Dark Side of the Moon and Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is to rock albums. It is deep, challenging and complex, and it invented the concept of "your actions determine the ending" and "non-player characters have feelings too" seen on so many games today. It was this game that made Bioware into a serious game developer. (Dragon Age was made to be the "spiritual successor" of this game.) It originally came out in the late nineties, which may make you think it's too old to be good. It does have some old schoolness, and there has been a lot of innovations since. But the Mona Lisa is from the renaissance. Is it too old to be good? If you want a game that has meat and will give you years of fun, don't pass on the Mona Lisa. Buy this game along with its predecessor Baldur's Gate I.

One of the best RPGs ever!

I played the original BG series to TOB series on PC many years back and to this day this still is my favorite RPG. I was excited to see the mobile port as well as the SOD and wanted to try taking a character through all 3 games. Still the best RPG experience imo. Great port. I played the entire series on an iPhone 8plus. Screen size is fine and very playable once you increase the font size. The only 3 suggestions I have to make this even better 1. Make some connection to the characters relationship between SOD and BG2. For example, make a quest in BG2 to recover the soul taker dagger to prove your innocence or have people like Viconia or Neera acknowledge the SOD events. 2. I’d like to see Corwin added to BG2. 3. There are some events like Dorn’s TOB quest where half the party loads off screen and can’t be accessed. Minor bug, pocket plane back and forth fixes it.

Updated!

"This app may slow down your device. Please contact the developer to update the app." Update #3: They finally updated the App (and I updated my rating back to where it belongs for this gem, 5 stars)! Thank you, Overhaul Games, for making this game better than what I remembered from the good old days of the PC! Stellar Job! (BTW, where is the BG: EE update???????) Update #2: Still nothing, yet I added one more star to my rating because, according to the website (as of the 5th of July 2017), an update is "on the way" for BG:EE and BGII: EE (they added in ID:EE as an afterthought, so hopefully there as well), but no ETA. I'll update my rating IF this app gets updated. This game, with the first and Icewind Dale, are a HUGE disappointment. I paid $10 for all of them so that I can play on my huge screen (Plus sized), only to see this on the description. I've left reviews on all three games with 1 star, and it will remain until the devs update their apps! Oh, they released a new game, also $10, but I'm not spending a dime on it because it won't even be worth it. They will never update it anyway. Totally disrespectful to people who pay money to play a game that isn't even updated to work on any device made on or after 2015. DO NOT BUY THEIR NEWEST APP! They will never update it anyway.

A great RPG that everyone should play (granted that they have free time)

Just bought this game after being on an RPG crave with a need for a deep combat system, story, and characters. This game is all that and more, seriously I haven’t even begun to scratch the surface of the game and I’ve already spent hours on mere side quests. My only qualms is that trying to get to the description of items while in the character menu is a tad frustrating and that sometimes trying to get downstairs, open doors, walk into rooms through said doors, tapping on ?’s sometimes just makes your party go there and not activate the function. If pressure touch was put into the game to allow easier access to description/use menus for items that would be perfect. Other than those things I am enjoying this game thoroughly.

Too Broken to Finish

The original game is excellent, but I’ve just hit my second quest-breaking bug. The first was in De’Arnise Keep, where a key failed to spawn, rendering the quest impossible to finish. Now I’m in Spellkeep and the hand of dace is not triggering entrance through a big stone face. Looking up these bugs online, turns out the only way to fix them is to buy a computer version of the game, transferring my save onto a computer, fixing the issue via the console, then transferring back to my phone. I feel cheated. I purchased this item thinking I had a complete product, but it turns out I now need to buy the pc version of the game to complete my game experience. The hand of dace bug has me trapped in a central quest dungeon with no way of progressing. These bugs would be completely tolerable if the devs added a console to the game. The original games were equally buggy, bless them, but at least there was usually a way of fixing things and progressing forward.

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