Baldur's Gate I vs. BG II

Gnome Berzerker

First Post

• Oct 12, 2003

• #1

I've played BG II for a while now, and my friend has a copy of BG I. He says he'll give it to me, as he's playing a whole bunch of other games now.

Which one is better? I understand BG I is lower level play, which I seem to like a little bit more when I'm playing table-top, but I'm not too sure about on a PC.

 

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Gnome Berzerker

First Post

• Oct 12, 2003

• #2

Oh, forgot to mention: I'm getting the expansion "Tales of the Sword Coast" with it.

 

Dark Jezter

First Post

• Oct 13, 2003

• #3

Baldur's Gate II takes everything that made Baldur's Gate I great and improves upon it. It's got a more interesting storyline, deeper characters, more subquests, better character portraits, better voice acting, etc.

 

Viking Bastard

Adventurer

• Oct 13, 2003

• #4

BGII all the way.

In fact, when first playing BG I wondered what the heck
the whole deal was with that game. It totally sucked. I
nearly gave up on it, it was so dull. I'm very glad I stuck
to it though, as when you finally get to Baldur's Gate, the
game really kicks off. A bit slow at first. If I hadn't stuck
with it I would never have played BGII (which was great)
and more importantly Planescape: Torment (which I grade
among my top 3 video game experiences evah!).

Oh yeah, play that one too.

 

Tsyr

Explorer

• Oct 13, 2003

• #5

It's worth playing through BG1, particularly to export your character to BG2, but BG2 is the better game.

BG1 runs at a lower resolution that BG2 if I recall, which makes it a little uglier, but...