Baldur's Gate II Guides & News

Baldur's Gate II

8.5/10

ByEric Schwarz
OnNovember 23, 2013

Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition Review

While Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition is definitely a notable improvement over Beamdog's previous remaster, the new content it introduces still can't approach the quality of the original game, and all its quality-of-life improvements, while welcome, are somewhat offset by the new bugs and crashes.

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Val Hull
January 19, 2023

Feargus Urquhart Interview

Despite not releasing any new RPGs in 2022, Obsidian Entertainment has had a pretty good year. And if you’d like to know whether this is the studio’s new direction or just some fluke, you might want to read this recent…

Val Hull
July 24, 2022

Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition – AI-generated Portraits

If you’d like to take a trip into the uncanny valley, you might want to check out this Rock Paper Shotgun article that directs us to a bunch of AI-generated portraits for Baldur’s Gate that both reimagine some of the…

Val Hull
November 24, 2021

How Dungeons & Dragons Shaped PC Gaming

While Dungeons & Dragons was originally inspired by a great deal of pulp literature, the pen and paper RPG then in turn inspired a lot of video game designers we know and love today. And this massive PC Gamer article,…

Val Hull
September 3, 2021

A Look at Forgotten Realms’ PC History

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you know all about the long and storied history of D&D-based video games, and in particular, the ones wrapped in the now-flagship Forgotten Realms setting. Still, if you’d like to reminisce, or…

Val Hull
January 23, 2021

Ray Muzyka Interview

Following his retirement from BioWare, Ray Muzyka, one of the studio’s founders, shifted his attention from video games to investing. And as such, he must have popped up on the radar of Ivey Business Review, a Canadian student-run business strategy…

Val Hull
November 8, 2020

Opening the Gold Box, Part 7: Back to the Roots

What looks to be the final part of The Digital Antiquarian’s “Opening the Gold Box” series of posts takes a close look at the twilight years of both SSI, the team behind the Gold Box games, and TSR, the original…

Val Hull
May 1, 2020

What Makes a Good RPG Dungeon?

Following some Oblivion-related frustration, Felipe Pepe of The CRPG Book fame wrote a lengthy article where he tries to figure out what makes an RPG dungeon good and fun to explore. In the process, he provides numerous examples of standout…

Val Hull
April 7, 2020

Reputation Overload – The Evolution of RPG Reputation Mechanics by Josh Sawyer

Josh Sawyer, a veteran RPG designer who played an integral part in the creation of Icewind Dale II, Fallout: New Vegas, and the Pillars of Eternity series among other things, is quite dissatisfied with how GDC (Game Developers Conference) runs…

Val Hull
April 2, 2020

Baldur’s Gate Retrospective

Now that we had an opportunity to see for ourselves what Baldur’s Gate III will have to offer, a fairly natural reaction is to want to look back and reminisce about the series’ past. As such, you might be interested…

Val Hull
March 9, 2020

Baldur’s Gate Retrospectives

With Baldur’s Gate III looming on the horizon, we get an opportunity to check out a couple of articles that remind us what made the series so great in the first place. First, there’s PC Gamer with a massive 2-page…