Baldur's Gate II App Reviews

It’s one of the best games of all time. This is basically a republishing of the same game. They got me on the $20 because it’s one of my favorite games of all time.

If you liked the original game, this enhanced version should keep you happy. Fun game. Would have liked to see more scripts for the characters but other than that, loads of fun!

The combination of playing on a MAC and the apple store version of this will make it more difficult than necessary to do things that should be easy (import characters from bg1 to bg2, utilize an editiing program). This version saves in the sandbox rather than the normal directory, and you can work around it, but it is difficult to find out how to do this because most people are not using this version. It will save you a lot of hassle to just buy the beam dog version. Otherwise, the game is mostly good. The new characters are buggy and I had to refer back to the forums to figure out how to end eternal conversation loops with them. It kind of hurts my enjoyment of the game when I have to spend so much time outside the BG2EE app just to rewire the essentials back together to play the game.

I have been waiting diligently for this game ever since BG:EE was released and I played through on my iPad. I dont know why other people are having trouble with this game imports, I imported my character from BG:EE on the iPad into this game on my MacBook with ease and added the script for the CLUAConsole just as quickly. Took about all of five minutes. I am still in chapter 2 closing out the side quests before giving Gaelen that 20,000 gold, but I am more than happy with this classic. Old friends are shocked while playing GTA 5 because I have returned to the forgotten realms and I am quite pleased about it. Five Stars all the way, this game still holds up well fifteen years later and is just as much fun. Pity is I am married now and cant spend those long nights on the sword coast without a care for the real world like I did in 1999. Still I am very happy with this purchase.

The game stalls at the App Store install. This was very dissappointing, as I absolutely loved this game back in the day. I tried to download from the Apple Itunes store. Unfortunately, the install appears to be broken. I am running 10.7.5. The install initially progresses normally, but after the getting to the App Store download dialogue, the download stalls. The game still shows an "Install" button in the App Store purchases section, but clicking the button does not initiate an install. I have yet to actually get a downloading prompt, as is normal within the App Store when downloading a file. I have contacted Beamdog and am waiting for a troubleshoot. Ive given this game 1 star as of right now because the game will not install. Pretty disappointing after having payed $25 bucks and expecting to be able to play this game this evening. Hopefully they have a good customer service team and I will be able to sort this out. Now I get to wait until tomorrow to even find out if I can play the game I just bought...

I got very far into the game twice, and both times some different glitch happened that made it impossible to keep playing. The first time, it wouldn’t let me through a door even though I had fulfilled the requirements, so I had to start over. The second time, the game suddenly started crashing every time I tried to change my weapon for the main character. Really pisses me off that I spent so much time only to have a glitch keep me from finishing the game. Even tried to uninstall and reinstall to no avail. Otherwise, a pretty fun game. Although I forgot how much reading is involved and how much time it takes to do EVERYTHING! The game is actually quite boring when I think about it, but frustrating that I can’t finish what I started.

Love it but if you could make it soo the custom colors on characters shields,helmet,etc. stayed when changed thatd be great.

The game keeps crashing, and it pisses me off. They need to fix that. At least quicksave is easy and fast though; just have to rememeber to do it often enough...

It’s like playing this game, but there are so many bugs with the characters its sometimes more frustrating than fun. And the fact that you have to spend so much time outside the game to make this game work (character import, for example) just makes it a three star.

I’ve never written a review but feel its necessary given the revisions to the original (fantastic) product. The updates are minimal and have plenty of bugs in spite of this. There appears to have been no testing on their code to rush this to market or something, very basic main plot bugs exist with EE chars. I had to remove the new chars from my party because they get hung up on dialog at various points. Save your money, install windows and tutu, This is probably my favorite game of all time and EE is a huge disappointment given my (very low, i just wanted a mac version that works!) expectations.

There is absolutely no reason to give Beamdog your money, since they refuse to update the crippling bugs that make the game completely unplayable if you bought through the app store. Instead they promise a patch that will never come. Do not waste your money.

As of July, 2014, BG2:EE is still at the 1.2000 version on the MacOS App Store; other platforms are at 1.2030, according to Beamdog’s web site, as, apparently, is Beamdog’s own distribution of BG2:EE for MacOS. As much as I love this game, I can’t endorse in the MacOS App Store while it’s so badly downlevel and buggy. There are quests you can’t complete in 1.2000 that are fixed in 1.2030. It matters than for some reason, the MacOS App Store is behind every other distribution channel for BG2:EE. I haven’t bought it from Beamdog yet, but I wish I had.

This was one of my first RPGs ever played, but I lost the ability to play years ago when Macs stopped accepting PowerPC apps and I dislike running Windows software on my computer, so when I stumbled across it in the app store, I metaphorically slapped down my credit card for the game. It is beautiful, and some of the newer content like the new characters and their quests, adds more to the game, making it still the recognizable game I fell in love with but also giving me new content to enjoy. I actually bought this one before the first BG as I enjoyed it much more in the past, but the first one is downloaded now, and I certainly plan to play more, since I have no self-control and I need more of BG. The replayability of this game also is still high for me, I really genuinely enjoy playing through it over and over. I did lower my original rating by one star due to some seriously annoying issues and bugs I have found: quicksave files can (it only happened to me once, but beware) become corrupted, so I recommend saving using the save function relatively often for safety. Also, the slayer change often disappears after being used once, which is really annoying and is an old bug that was in the original and should definitely have been fixed by now. Neither reloading or sleeping fixes this. I really wish I could give this five stars, but these bugs are really irritating. All in all, still a beautiful, classic game.

Multiplayer doesn’t seem to be compatible with PCs. I think apple needs to update the version?

Baldur’s Gate II is a wonderful game. BGII "Enhanced" edition is, um… mostly the same wonderful game, modified a bit to run on various platforms and with some added content that is generally viewed by those new to the game as interesting and by those who know it from way back as predominantly fanfic-level trash. But hey, it works on a Mac, which is more than can be said for the original, unless you go through ridiculous hoops and are highly tolerant of effort and compromise; take it from someone who has done this that you would rather not, particularly if you intend to try to install mods. Or rather, there is a version that I’m told works on a Mac. This isn’t it. The current version on the Apple store, as of December 17, 2014, is 1.2.0. That version was released about a year and a half ago and is a buggy, often-unplayable mess. Beamdog issued a patch in late 2013, but that patch never made it to the Apple Store version. As to why, allow me to quote an admin on Beamdog’s forum: "It sounds like the 1.2.2030 patch wasnt ever uploaded to the Mac App Store; well make sure the 1.3 patch gets there, along with all of the other platforms." That post was made on March 9, 2014, in response to Mac users’ clamoring for a patch that had been available for non-Apple Store purchases for four months. And that’s all she or anyone else had to say on the matter; they apparently never bothered to submit the bug fixes to Apple, so users have been stuck with an acknowledgedly-buggy version for over a year. Yesterday (12/16/14), version 1.3 was finally released; it is said to be replete with bug fixes and may finally make the game playable. But the only word from Beamdog as to when it will show up here (or whether they even bothered submitting the patch to Apple this time around) is a table entry that reads: "Available on Apple Store — No". So, potential purchasers, that’s what you get if you click "buy": a version that’s going on a year and a half old, when multiple patches have been written in the interim, from people who acknowledged that the reason for the omission is that they didn’t bother submitting to Apple and who haven’t said another word on the matter for over nine months. This is an unsupported game that is basically beta quality, evn though the company has recently released Mac updates. Should you consider buying it if you can find a way to make it work? That’s another matter. If you want to run BGII on a Mac, the EE is probably the way to do it, unfortuantely. (You can try running it on a virtualized Windows installation, but I’ve done that several times and fouond it works poorly at best. Or you can install the original, along with all teh tweaks necessary to make it work; I’ve been through thsi and have never been happy with the result but if you’re tech-savvy and patinet it can be made to work.) The new content is, as I said, mostly poor, and installing mods on a Mac is still kludgy as heck even when you get everything running (and mods are a central aprt of the experince for many BGII players), but if it works at all it may be worth it. You decide whether that’s worth getting involved with those responsible for what I’ve descrbed here.

I can’t even describe how I thrilled I was to see this game and its counterpart re-issued! The graphics, though dated in resolution, are updated to look good on modern displays. The gameplay is as good as it ever was! This is the way video D&D is meant to be played. My only complaint, and something I’d like to see remedied, is there’s no iCloud support; I’d love to be able to play on my desktop system and then continue the same game on my iPad. NEEDS AN UPDATE!! Version 1.3 is available from the developer, but not at the Apple App Store! Boo!! Lot’s of glitches could be solved if they’d just get on the stick!

Game was released with numerous bugs. Patch released some time later addressing them… but no patch released for Apple Store (only those that bought it from BeamDog or Steam). Say it’s coming in a few months… 4 months later they say we have to wait until the next major patch… Next major patch comes out (almost a year now?), and (again) it’s only for those that bought it via BeamDog or Steam. A month later and the patch still hasn’t been submitted to Apple for approval. Will rewrite review when game isn’t plagued by bugs (or maybe it can wait until the next major patch).

BeamDog released the v1.3 patch before Christmas and Apple keeps refusing to upload the patch to the App Store. This is not a 1* review for the game, but rather for purchasing it from here. If you want to buy this game, buy it directly from the companys web site and not from Apple. You will be supporting them more and you will actually get updates in a timely fashion.

This game is not a perfect port - it’s better! They took the stuff that made the game great, polished it up, and added features. The black pits is a welcome addition to break away from the main story. This is a complete success!

A great version of the classic. AppStore needs more games like these!