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[Mathuzzz]

When
Baldur's Gate 1 first came out, it was strange unknown game (at least in Europe). Once I have found huge (500 MB) demo on the local magazine CD and became addict, even though I was more FPS oriented. I think it was party roaming throughout the large fantasy land. But not ordinary high fantasy land like you see in every modern MMORPG. It was more like realistic medieval world, with some fantasy when you went deeper. Father bought me the game more than a year later, so guess how many times I have played thourgh the demo.

What was the thing that made you love this game?

[morbidest2]

Going back over 10 years, it was the challenge of just staying alive in BG1 the first time you went thru it.Also the completeness of the world that BW had created. Remember the graves of all the developers in the Nashkel graveyard that died from exhaustion putting BG together.

[oblivionenss]

My dad got the box edition of BG in birthdaypresent many years ago, so I asked if I could try, and he said ok, even though i didn't know much english I loved killing kobolds, but i never got through the Nashkel mines

[BelgarathMTH]

What made me first try it all those years ago was my experience in high school and college playing tabletop D&D using second edition and having so much fun with it.

BG first came out about when I had finished my education and just started my working life. All my old friends had moved on, and playing tabletop D&D any more was not a realistic possibility. Computer gaming was still a fairly new thing.

I had first started getting hooked on computer gaming with the old Might and Magic and Heroes of Might and Magic series.

Then, when Baldur's Gate came out, I was immediately amazed at how well it duplicated and implemented the experience of playing D&D with my old friends. I could keep playing D&D, and I didn't need anybody else to do it! Just me and the computer.

There hasn't been a game that does it quite as well, since. A few have come close, like D:AO, but none of them has the replayability of good old Baldur's Gate. I keep coming back, again and again.

[corey_russell]

At the time, I was single, an adult, and looking for a new software title to pass the time. The box cover looked interesting, so I went ahead and bought it. I knew nothing about D&D at the time, so did a lot of reading of the in-game text. I also read the manual, and that did help, though it was slow going...

Right about when I beat BG 1 for the first time, I discovered BG 2 and ToB. I bought those, and continued my first adventure. I thought my paladin with awesome fighting stats was unstoppable, and he was, until the Underdark -- that's when he got a rude awakening from Mind Flayers with his 4 INT...never was able to finish that first run, as my hard drive died, and so did the save...

[Eternal Phoenix]

What got me into Baldur's Gate? I guess the traditional feel of it did. I'm rather much a new-comer to the series but I prefer old-school RPG's over modern type RPG's which is why I felt right at home with Baldur's Gate which doesn't hold your hand. I think Baldur's Gate is the very definition of a traditional RPG.

[Mathuzzz]

oblivionenss wrote...

My dad got the box edition of BG in birthdaypresent many years ago, so I asked if I could try, and he said ok, even though i didn't know much english I loved killing kobolds, but i never got through the Nashkel mines

I didn´t know much english either, Baldur´s Gate thought me

BelgarathMTH wrote...

Then, when Baldur's Gate came out, I
was immediately amazed at how well it duplicated and implemented the
experience of playing D&D with my old friends. I could keep playing
D&D, and I didn't need anybody else to do it! Just me and the
computer.

I have never even heard of D&D, so it took me a few weeks to find out what THACO means

[RaggieRags]

I liked CRPGs before Baldur's Gate. The mid-nineties was a dark pit of despair for RPG fans, so every new release was watched closely. Baldur's Gate had an insane amount of hype and I bought the game as soon as the first reviews came out.

[termokanden]

I played AD&D 2nd edition at the time so it was pretty natural to pick this game up.

[fro7k]

I got it bought for me as a kid after seeing a positive review of it in a gaming magazine.

[aries1001]

A former of mine became friends....He introduced me to computergames in a big way.... And he told me about this game called Baldur's Gate way back in 1998....

I then got some money for my birthday from my father and I decided to buy the game, mainly because of the box cover, but probably mostly because I could control all 6 characters - oh- and the game came on 5 discs. Back in 1998 that was huge selling point....

[Grimwald the Wise]

I saw the box in a Gaming Shop. It looked interesting and so bought it. It was so much better than other games on the market at the time. I had been playing Ultima 4 and was so familiar with it that I was bored. Remember Golden Axe Warrior? That was even worse. That game's only good point was the freedom to wander.

[Bhryaen]

At the time of its release I had recently been looking for people to play DnD with, not at all looking for a computer game. There was no one around locally, so I tried online. I eventually joined one online DnD group, and it was good fun for at least a few months, but egos and time schedules and such broke it up... but not before one player told me about BG that had just come out. It was an instant substitute for a spotty DnD session- without the egos, without any time conflicts, and, ultimately, with years of continued play experience.

[meteor0L]

birthday present from my parents. i saw the box in a game shop, and i couldn't live without it.

i had no goddamn clue how this game was working. ( i was 10 years old in 1998), i never managed to beat it , died all the time , but i loved what i was doing. replayed it several years later and was really suprised how easy it was.
i always love to see how a few years of experience make unbeatable games a cakewalk.
(does someone remember Sacrifice by Shiny Entertainment? awesome game, but it was just impossible for me to beat it when it was released. replayed it a year ago: piece of cake)

[bussinrounds]

Elton John is dead wrote...

What got me into Baldur's Gate? I guess the traditional feel of it did. I'm rather much a new-comer to the series but I prefer old-school RPG's over modern type RPG's which is why I felt right at home with Baldur's Gate which doesn't hold your hand. I think Baldur's Gate is the very definition of a traditional RPG.

  Only if it had turn based combat.

 

[MingWolf]

Started with Neverwinter Nights, enjoyed it, and then heard really good things about Baldur's Gate. What finally did me in was after listening to the soundtrack on YouTube, and so I went to ebay to pick up my Baldur's Gate discs. Was a little bit tough getting into BG1 at first, but was pretty hooked by the end. Played through SoA and ToB and experienced the best cRPG experience ever.

[LeBurns]

I was a big TT D&D player back in college. When BG1 came out I was already married and did not have a lot of time for games. My sister bought BG1 and told me about it and I knew I had to go ahead and give it a try. Well a few months later I did and I have to say I was completely hooked on BG and BioWare in general. BG still holds a soft spot in my heart and I have been watching with interest the development of the BGEE. BioWare on the other hand ... well they just are not what they used to be.

[Son of Imoen]

I first got to know the title 'Baldur's Gate' when someone gave me a pirated copy, that I never even installed, as it had a virus in it. I didn't have an inkling what it was about, until years later I found out Baldur's Gate was a 2nd Edition AD&D game and that's the reason I bought it, played it and became hooked on it. Like Belgarath, I played 2nd ed. AD&D with highschool friends (actually, it was VWO, for Dutch users out there, but I translate it to highschool for lack of a better word), so Baldur's Gate is about nostalgia for a great deal, as well as being a great game. I actually made my favorite highschool-AD&D character, an elven fighter-mage named Eriodal, into a PC for my newest playthrough.

[Shadow_Leech07]

I had seen that Baldur's Gate had been reviewed in PC Gamer magazine and I thought that it looked like a cool game. Baldur's Gate was not the only game I bought reviewed in that particular issue. There were several great games back then.

[Mathuzzz]

MingWolf, as you say, soundtrack to this game is so great, that one doesn't need other reasons to get this game.

meteor0L, pretty similar scenario, except that I was addict on the game already before I convinced father a year later I had some tough times with it either, but managed to finish it on my first playthrough, even though it was my first RPG. But there are still places that gives me though time even today, Ulcaster anyone?

[PaulSX]

well, Baldur's Gate is amongst the first several CRPGs that were translated to my mother tongue. At that time, there were really not many choices.

Modifié par suntzuxi, 27 mai 2012 - 09:05 .

[The Potty 1]

I'd never heard anything about BG1, I read the box and bought it cold.Probably one of the few games I didn't buy out of a bargain bin 5 years after it was released. I borrowed the TotSC expansion from my to-be brother in law and still haven't returned it. BG2 I bought as soon as they released the 4+1 set.

One of the things I remember with a chuckle is a hardcore tabletop D&D player at varsity in about 1992 saying that no computer game could ever match the complexity of a DM-run game. Even at the time I thought that was kinda short-sighted.

[DarthMuffin]

One of my friends gave me BG1 for my birthday. It's a good thing he did because I don't think I would have bought it on my own (big skull on the box and all didn't seem like my thing). My favourite game at the time was Warcraft 2 and he explained BG as such "it's like Warcraft, but it focuses on 6 characters that you equip and explore with". Good enough for me, I thought.

It took me a while to really get into it though, I kept dying in those blasted Nashkel mines. I have some very clear memories of trying to rest to heal and being awakened by a horde of kobolds. Even after all these years and beating the game countless times, I'm still a bit scared of that place.

[Chaotic Clown]

My favorite game at the time was Diablo II and I was looking for any similar games.   Baldur's Gate was going for a great price in Game, both the original with expansion as well as the sequel with expansion, so I purchased both.   This was after looking at the back cover and seeing screenshots depicting what appeared to be the type of game I was hoping for.   Needless to say Baldur's Gate was a different beast entirely in comparison to Diablo II.   Initially I was a little disappointed with the difference in gameplay, but I persevered due to the appealing story early on in the adventure.   The gameplay grew on me even though I initially found it very difficult.   This was mainly due to my lack of understanding in regard to the rules which the game adheres to.   I read the manual in its entirety, twice.   I re-read certain chapters of the manual when I felt it was required, and eventually the rules started to make sense and my ability to traverse battles improved.   I started the game over a good handful of times before settling on a race and a class, nevermind attribute distribution.   Learning to use the pause button and plan ahead certainly helped, and was a mechanic I really took to.   It was a game I fell in love with, to go a little over-the-top.

I've actually never completed Baldur's Gate.   Perhaps more shocking is that I have never even made a start on Baldur's Gate II.   Why?   I simply never managed to see the original through due to a hard drive death, windows needing to be re-formated, a save file corruption and a power supply barbeque, to mention a few reasons.   I have a save file on the go that I haven't played for a lot of months now, but I am about to get back to it.   I decided to give the game another spin last summer, upon purchase of a new desktop, and I was really tearing through it until a bug with Coran and some Wyverns.   That slowed my progress enough that I eventually moved on to other games, and then lost the urge to get back, until now that is.

Baldur's Gate is the only game from that era of my childhood that I still want to play today, and still do play today.   It holds up fantastically well, even with its dated graphics and dinosaur resolution, especially considering that I play vanilla with no widescreen mod.   If I ever have to start over, again, I think I will change to the Tutu or Trilogy side of things, if not this supposed Enhanced Edition I have been hearing about.   At present (and at the time) vanilla suited me, more for nostalgia and an authentic experience of how it was at the time of release.