If you’re a 30-40 something year old gamer with vague memories of playing a video game about tanks, soldiers, spaceships and whatever else, then chances are you were playing one of the arcade classics featured in SNK 40 th Anniversary Collection. Originally a Nintendo Switch exclusive before heading to PlayStation 4, Xbox One would eventually get this better-late-than-never port in 2019, and boy are we glad.
With Baldur’s Gate 3 currently in development (good chance it will be on Series X) this is a great time to jump into what is arguably the greatest Dungeons & Dragons video game. It is truly a gigantic quest in the literal sense, which explains why it took so long for the game to finally appear on console in 2019.Īs an RPG fan you really can’t go wrong here, especially when the addictive pacing melts away hours without notice. As far as value propositions in gaming go, The Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition Pack offers an ocean-sized adventure and all comfortably optimised for Xbox One and its controller.īaldur’s Gate was ahead of its time – in fact some of its ideas and gameplay mechanics still remain ahead of modern role-playing epics. The enhanced edition pack contains both games with all expansions intact, and then some.
But none command the same awe and respect as Baldur’s Gate. The role-playing genre as a whole will forever be in debt to Dungeons & Dragons, and by extension RPGs as a video game genre owe a great deal to this premier fantasy epic.Ģ019 saw a series of remastered collections of classic Dungeons & Dragons RPGs, and you can’t go wrong with any of them.
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