Baldur’s Gate II Enhanced Edition

I was excited to see that the Enhanced Edition of Baldur’s Gate II is coming out next month. The Baldur’s Gate series – Baldur’s Gate, Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn, and Baldur’s Gate II: Throne of Bhaal – was one of the great classics of computer gaming. In fact, when BG2 originally came out in 2000, I walked four and a half miles to the nearest software store to buy it, since I had neither a car nor a functioning bicycle at the time, and I never regretted it.

The Enhanced Edition of Baldur’s Gate had my favorite quality of a computer game – it doesn’t crash when I ALT+TAB away from it to a different program. My preferred method of writing a rough draft is to write as fast as I can for twenty to thirty minutes, and then switch to a computer game in the background for five minutes to clear my head via killing some orcs.

So, Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition is recommended, and I’m definitely looking forward to trying out Baldur’s Gate II Enhanced Edition.

-JM