Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast

I first played Baldur's Gate in 1998 at the recommendation of a friend. Over the years I have found myself going back to it. I don't get to play games as often anymore, but this has been a staple. I had to replace my original TOSC expansion disc last month when my 15 month old decided to eject it from the computer and bust it in half. Dreading I may not be able to find a replacement, I began my search. To my surprise, I discovered that even after 14 years Baldur's Gate is still popular. I thoroughly enjoy the way this game plays. The selection of characters is pretty wide for a game this old. There are a plethora of spells, though I use only a handful of different ones. When I first began to play this game, the storyline kept me coming back for more. My favorite character, though it requires a LONG time to level up, is a half elf fighter/mage/thief. When I finally get this character over a level 10, he's a one man army. Slap on the boots of speed with a potion of speed and he can take out 3 enemies before they know he's there. I highly recommend this game.

Great game. It is still great even after all these years. I would still recommend it, especially for the price I paid. $5 can't be beat.

I recently purchased the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion for the Original Baldur's Gate. Even after just a short time playing it, could tell it was worth it. Noticed these benefits almost immediately: 1) Magical, unidentified items are marked in blue shading. This way you won't forget to identify them and also if it's loot in a chest/creature you won't forget to loot them in the first place. 2) When moving or looting items, if they are stackable then they are automatically stacked for you. The original game doesn't do this so this is quite a time saver. 3) Experience cap raised from 89000 to 161000. This allows another 1-2 levels depending on class. This is quite nice as before I would get to the cap before I was done with the game and then the fights became irrelevant, so just did the main storyline. Now there's a point in doing more exploration. I actually haven't had a chance to explore the new areas yet (werewolf island, Ulgolth's Beard, Dulag's Tower) but doesn't matter. This purchase has been worth it for these features alone for me.

I have no problem with the game in and of itself but it's hard to play when the game doesn't come with the start up disk? If you're going to purchase this game make sure you ask if it comes with a start up disk for the Mac

This expansion pack (EP) was a complete wast of my time, and money. It adds a couple new magical weapons and armor, some new spells and a couple new areas to explore. There is no plot to the the EP, just some NPC saying "Oh I lost my son in Durlags Tower. . . ." and stuff like that. The only thing that made this EP worth two stars is that they cleaned up a lot of the rough edges from Baldurs Gate, and increased Experience points to a point where your fighter and like one other class can go up a level. By the way, it is just one more disk that you have to flip through if you decide to replay Baldurs Gate. In conclusion don't buy this EP, it isn't worth it, unless any new EP's come out that require it.

Need to play thru original Baldurs Gate or you get stuck with a character party not of your choosing.

This game is the stuff of legends. A little quirky and perhaps unimppressive by today's video game standards, but the back in the day this game brought RPGs to the forefront of the computer game world. It's fairly easy to get a playable copy of the game these days just go find Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition on STEAM.

Classic RPG

I sent this back to supplier because it wouldn't work, it said for use in USA/Canada only. Supplier was mega cooperative but the returned disc seems to have disappeared between being handed in at post office and the supplier. I am investigating. Cannot make further comment at present.