Grissallia<p>January 30, 2024 - Day 395 - NewPlay Review<br>Total NewPlays: 431</p><p>Game: Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition</p><p>Platform: Steam<br>Released: Nov 28, 2012<br>Installed: Jan 30, 2024<br>Unplayed: 0d<br>Playtime: 15m</p><p>Rating: 2 - Meh...?</p><p>Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is a remastered version of the original Baldur's Gate released on Dec 21, 1998. It's an isometric RPG, and I've made a terrible mistake.</p><p>The original purpose of this little project was to play through games that were in my unredeemed keys spreadsheet, or already installed in Steam, which I've stuck to most of the time.</p><p>I've been enjoying BG3, and last night got an email for a Fanatical Star Deal for Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, and Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition.</p><p>Only A$5.98? Download, installed, start playing after knocking off at 11:30pm.</p><p>Here's the thing: I know Baldur's Gate is considered to be a classic RPG.</p><p>Even though The Enhanced Edition runs natively on a 3440x1440 resolution monitor, it's not in a good way. The UI, which was originally designed to sit close to the centre of the screen, is now sitting out at the very edges of the monitor, with the play area a relatively small area in the middle of the screen, dwarfed by two huge black voids on either side. Then the UI.</p><p>If that wasn't enough, after 15 minutes of playtime, I was *still* in the tutorial. I hadn't skipped it, and it's good thing I hadn't, because the idea of pausing mid-battle and making moves is considerably different to both BG3, and any other game I recall.</p><p>At the end of the day (not a cliche, literally), after more than twelve work hours, I don't think I was in the right mindset to either take the game in, or to work around the technical limitations.</p><p>With that said, I'm not sure it will grab me, but I've put it into the "replay" category to give it a second chance.</p><p>For now, Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is a bit:</p><p>2: Meh</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/BaldursGateEnhancedEdition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BaldursGateEnhancedEdition</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TopDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TopDown</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Isometric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Isometric</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/RPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RPG</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ProjectONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectONG</span></a></p>