Baldur's Gate (and BG2) is suppose to be the game that 'saved' the RPG genre. Is this a joke? I gave it a shot and this may be the most overrated and awful playing RPG ever.

So what is good about this game? Clearly it's not the combat, because that is terrible. It's not the story, because the writing and characters are forgettable. Is it the music? No, this game doesn't even have a memorable soundtrack. The graphics aren't super terrible for 1998, but boy do the animations suck. Maybe I can give props to the open world map, sound effects, banter, and weather effects. That's about it.

Speaking of the combat. Who actually enjoys this pausing combat? Basically you get into a fight, pause, choose what abilities to use, and then it's a roll of the dice. If you die, you might as well reload your save because resing will drain your bank. If you win, you need to rest to use spells again. The entire game is lame dungeon crawling and saving every second you win a battle or progress an inch forward. I was looking at the save screen more often then playing the game.

Baldur's Gate is suppose to be a contender for the best RPG ever. Seriously laughable... It may be one of Bioware's worst game series. The slow pace of the game and the fact that you can't even run makes it even worse. What a chore it was to play this.

So disappointed, but I should have known people overhype bad RPG's all the time.

Don't believe the hype. This game is boring tripe.