Ive played this game once a year at least since I was 11. Still finding new things, builds, consequences and paths to completion all these years later. The pinnacle of RPGs from an era I miss and what BG3 should of looked and played like really.

Ive always hated the romance options in BG2. I only ever lead Anomen on so that he'd kill Aerie, then Minsc will kill Anomen. But this new monk is sexy AF. He looks like he bit someone and their blood is dripping down his chin. I like that in a man.

This game is one of those things that are a cultural touchstone that innovated a genre into what it is. Yet, when you come back to it, so many years later, it simply doesn't hold up. I respect Baldur's Gate for what it was. A pioneer of the genre in many ways.

I've tried time and again to get into this game but simply couldn't. It's a marvelous example of a pioneer of a genre. But, for me, it just doesn't offer anything that newer games in this genre don't do better.

I hate that I have to say I can't recommend it. I want to. I really do, but I'd be lying if I did.