Digital download service Good Old Games recently relaunched, adding roleplaying classics such as Baldur’s Gate and Planescape: Torment to its roster. Now, it’s added Baldur’s Gate 2 as well – widely considered to be one of the best RPGs ever made.
To make up for the Baldur's Gate 3 release window delay on Xbox, fans of the RPG franchise can expect Baldur's Gate 1 and Baldur's Gate 2 to drop on Game Pass.
Looks like more quality RPGs are coming our way via Gamepass! Amazing News!
At this point it’s RPG Pass. I’m not complaining, I’ll sub again to try Starfield. Maybe even sooner than that if I beat FF16 in the next few weeks.
Not even a quarter of games on game pass are rpgs. This is one of the reason Xbox has been trying to establish a better relationship with the Japanese devs and fans.
A few tips for BG1&2..
#1: Press the little red diamond thing. That's quick loot and will show you whatever is on the ground, including the contents of corpses. Saves a million clicks and is the difference between an unbearable looting experience and a somewhat tolerable one.
#2: Go into the menus and enable some autopause settings. Particularly for when you spot an enemy or a trap. Probably also on character death.
#3: Crowd control is more OP in these games than in any other RPG I've ever played in my life. Fear it. Abuse it.
#4: Be patient. These are not experiences to be rushed and would be better skipped than skimmed.
At this point lore/recap videos are probably better if you are interested in BG3 but haven't played the originals.
I spent half of July playing BG1&2. They definitely have old game jank, and as I mentioned above, the crowd control is insanely broken. But if you can stomach the combat and have patience, they are definitely still worth playing. The amount of freedom the player is given is just astonishing, even with the standards of today (pretty impressive considering over 20 years have passed). Baldur's Gate II in particular reminded me why it's often considered the best CRPG ever made.
DualShockers Writes "The legendary RPG is free on Prime Gaming, and still has the old magic."
Hardcore Droid Editor in Chief, Al Jackson Lists the Ten Best Android Games of All Time.
I still play this on my PC from time to time.
Still have my beloved big box of this game.
Still one of the best games ever that and Torment loved them both and still play them even now.
Still one of BioWare's finest games even to this day against masterpieces like ME2 and the upcoming TOR.
I still have this game in a stack of disc buried in my closet.