Baldur's Gate 1 + 2 Full Story Recap 

Best companion in Baldur's Gate? (Apart from Minsc because obvs he number 1)

I used to play Baldur's Gate at a friend's house when I was a kid. My family was dirt poor so I was really grateful that he would let me come over and play Baldur's Gate, Torment and Warcraft on his old computers. I miss him. RIP friend.

All I can hear is "you must gather you party before venturing forth"

All of this. And still the main plot is like 15% of the entire games.

I was there Gandalf, 2000 years ago. I played BG2 LAN mode when i was 14 with my friends. At that time LAN cables where coaxial ones and not the current square LAN cables we all know today. We never went past the 1st act playing together as we were too busy creating our characters and doing goofy stuff in the first city. Now we have fiber internet which is literally 2000 times faster than the internet we had at that time. But playing online doesn't have the same taste as doing it ghetto style with your friends like we did before!

Played Baldurs gate 2 so many times, different classes, different choices. It's where my love for the Sorcerer and Barbarian classes began!

Just looked up some of these voice actors for Balder's Gate 1 and holy crap, like a third of them were in almost every cartoon TV show I watched as a Kid or played as a video game.

Absolutely love the Baldur's Gate series. #2 being my favorite because of all the character development. But #1 has a special kind of feel to it. As the franchise progresses it becomes more chaotic and wild in it's scenarios, which is to be expected of D&D when you get to such high levels, but BG1 was never over the top, no travelling to otherwordly dimensions, having to fight hordes of magical demons. (until Siege of Dragonspear) It's mostly just you and your followers just exploring the wilderness, and trying to solve the mystery of the iron crisis. very down to earth.

There are very good reasons to play this game, no matter how old it gets. The characters are extremely well written, the story is not only compelling but truly nails the from dirt to literal godhood cliché as no other game ever has, and lastly, the atmosphere is simply splendid, especially the music which is as good as any I've ever listened to in any video game, 20 years later.

"The Lord of Murder shall perish. But in his doom he shall spawn a score of mortal progeny. Chaos will be sown from their passing." So sayeth the wise Alaundo.

0:32 Actually Waterdeep is the biggest city in the Sword Coast.

*Miniature GIANT space hamster. Also, Jon Irenicus was neither human nor elf. He had his elfhood revoked, if memory serves.

"You should have not have come to this place!" Also honorable mentioning is Demigorgon. Imagine my shock when I used Time Stop and realizing that Demigorgon had the Star Platinum ability of moving in the stillness as well. It was like one shotting my own team.

In Baldur's Gate 3, you find out that boo is the Mastermind behind everything since BG1.

This has been a perfect recap. Wonderfully done. Thanks so much!

AH SURV THE FLAYMING FIYST

Just finished throne of Baal last night and god dam playing through both games and their expansions, and seige even though it has its problems, really feels like a grand adventure

for some reason the only thing I can remember from bg is: "get me out of this HELL hole" repeated over and over and over and over

GO FOR THE EYES BOO!!!

Live by the sword - live a good loooong time! ⚔

This brought back soooo many memories, thanks Dude!

Don Karnage voiced Minsc (Don Karnage from Tail Spin, the talented actor Jim Cummings), one of my favorite voice actors and voiced one of the best characters in Baulders Gate 1 & 2.

I just found this and thank you very much! I've played a good chunk of 1, but haven't completed it, and never played 2. Just the other day finished Act 1 in BG3, really loving it, and I'm happy to see more ties to the original game than just Jaheira and Minsc.

Man... knowing it was the begginings of Bioware, it blows my mind what the studio have become. Crazy.

When bg3 was first announced in 2019, i picked up bg1 and eventually 2. I have clocked in over 700 hours in them jointly and they quickly became my top 5 games of all times. Larian has big shoes to fill

This.... this game evokes so many memories, spent a good chunk of my teenage years on it. I miss my youth.

I definitely do not need the recap after all my time playing the games, but I am glad the video exists! Haha

Baldur's gate series is still the best game ever for me.

Oof, hearing the soundtrack made me get shivers. I need to play bg2 again, such a fantastic story. I was in my teens when I last played it, surely a lot of the story flew right over my head back then.

Watching this pending the upcoming release of BG 3 and this brings back so many memories. Played this back when it released and this just reminds me of a lot of joy of playing classic games back in the day. Really hope Minsc and Boo are back given the reveal from the comic.

BG2 is still easily one of my favourite games ever :-)

Incredible recap. Thank you!

Was looking for a video like this since BG3 looks pretty cool. Thank you!

I'm 29 and I can barely remember Baldur's Gate but I'll never forget my first beholder.

The effort a video like this must've taken, well done.

Netflix will eventually turn this into a series, starring Henry Cavill

Finding Drizzt in the original game was so legendary. He had god-tier +2 scimitars if I remember right. Minsk was annoying and charming at the same time. "Da squeaky wheel gets da grease!"

Boy howdy am I glad you chose to include the music in the background, brings me right back.

listening to the ending conclusion from the BG2 still gives me chill nowadays. This is truely the mark of GREAT games. I ended up as a GOD of pure GOOD, that was soooo satisfying and shared a life with Aerie, this was really something special.

Thank you very much for the breakdown! I tried getting into these games but couldn't keep on through to the end. I love these games, but never seem to have the time to play them all the way. Gonna change that with BG3!!

Oh 2 years later and way into BG3, Thank you so much!

I played BG1 + BG2 + all expansions 20 years ago, and after watching this, I only remembered the beginning and end of BG1 and most of the companion Characters from BG1. I do remember enjoying these games thoroughly. Thank you for the recap. Someday I plan to play through BG3 (after I finish Divinity Original Sin 2 and Pillars of Eternity 2).

Weird to think that while all this was happening, Astarion was eating rats in a dingy tomb somewhere.

I cant imagine how excited the original players must've been seeing familiar faces when playing BG3, sadly I was born in the early 2000s so I wasn't able to fully experience them when they came out, but there's always time to pick them up

The lore in the series are very solid. But the things I liked best of the Baldurs Gate series was the feeling of semi open world freedom. So many secrets and quest with good reason for them to exist. I thing the writing in general are what made Baldurs Gate so memorable. Also great intereactions between characters was top tier. I can't rate what NPC I prefered best, but I think I have to end with: 1. Jan Jansen (For his oversharing hillarious turnips tales), 2. Minsc (for his stupidity) 3. Viconia (For the incredible difficult interesting romance/story) Or Edwin (for the narsisistic lols)

Ah, the child of Bhaal has awoken!

I love that you have the menu music in the background 👌

Been looking for this!

Baldur's gate 1 & 2, icewind dale 1&2 also first Neverwinter's nights and all its expansions. Plus planescape torment holds a spot in my heart. Have great hope for BG3.

This is a very good video, recap put nicely together. Man good portion of my gaming years as a kid was spent on BG especially BG II, now as a married man with kids I dont have the time or the focus to go through it again, I might try to go through BG II before I get the chance to play the third part, the thing is its not about the free time to play its about the focused time to play cause if you skip through and dont read the dialogues that is not it, certanly one of the best if not the best RPGs that I’ve ever played…..

Love how a 21 minute video is like 0.2% of the content of the game(s) in super short format. Man I hope they got Jim Cummings to do some voices for the game.

Come on! I noticed the KOVERAS/SAREVOK thing and was like 10 years old haha Such good memories, thanks for the video, I needed a recap as I did not remember almost anything lol

I can't believe you forgot about Coran in the Cloak Wood forest. He is another character besides Minsc and Boo who is likely to return in Baldur's Gate 3, not just because he is an elf, but because it has been confirmed in D&D lore that Coran becomes a nobleman in the city 100 years after Baldur's Gate 1 and 2.

I played all of the BG games multiple times and even attempted to mod it(Because Haer'Dalis is bae). It was my 1st ever RPG and got me into gaming and still my favorite. Least favorite part was the return to Candelkeep and fighting the dopplegangers. So very hyped for the new game!

This makes the story in BG3 even better seeing names that I know now from playing without playing thesr

"Baldur's gate is the largest and most populated city on the sword coast" *looks at waterdeep....*

Easily one of the best epics I've ever played.

Good video. To be fair, I didn't really need it. I've played BG1&2 off & on for decades now! Heck, it's even installed on my computer now & been playing it a little during lockdown. LOVE IT!

Whole series is amazing but Throne of Bhaal with watchers keep is the perfect pinnacle to the entire game. Epic battles with equal even today

Big fan of baldur's gate 2, i play coop with my schoolmate back in elementary school.

I don't know how many will share my opinion but, I liked to watch old animation much more where we can see Sarevoc kills the Bhaalspawn at the top of Iron Throne Headquarters, it's dated, it's stiff, it's too old, yet I somewhow prefer to watch that old animation more than these ...still images. Maybe I'm just too nostalgic, I do like the updated game though, playing Baldur's Gate 1-2 again just before 3 was about to hit the store was so much fun.

Hey! I just realized they got the same exact voice actor who narrated the Baldur's Gate 2 to do the narration for Siege of Dragonspear, 15 years later. That is pretty amazing!

I just don't have time to play through BG I and II, thanks for this!

“I serve the Flaming Fist.” I’d say that made me nostalgic but I still play BG1 and BG2. I’m so excited!

I don't know how many hundreds of hours I put into Baldur's Gate and Tales of the Sword Coast. Still have those discs.

It's "Koveras". Not Korevas, That would not be Sarevok backwards.

I grew up and largely learned to read through this game.

Great video! Sadly I'm old enough to have played BG1 and 2 very well

So, Bhaal has always been the main antagonist of baldurs gate

Just what i needed

Thanks for the memories

There should be just around 20 minutes until Baldur's Gate 3 comes out on PC. This seems like the most fitting way to wait it out.

original was on 6 disks you had to change out every other time you changed zones, still have originals disks in a box somewhere, crazy how much i remember form a game i played 20+ years ago, true classics

I love that they've added Sarevok to bg3

Fun Fact: Kids Next Door Episode 9 of season 4 (Operation: K.N.O.T.) uses the voice actor of Minsc, Jim Cummings, to play Vin Moosk an overt and hilarious parody of Minsc. Aside from Minsc, my favorite companion was the Sentient Sword.

13:50 - actually, Irenicuss did not drain the power of Bhaal, but the demigod-soul, leaving Bhaal's power/taint behind. After that point, the taint was rising, spasaming and gushing out of the protagonist in the form of the Slayer.

"Cespenar is GOOD servant. Oh, YES !" And I loved the soundtrack to Siege of Dragonspear. (And it's Hephernaan - not @ 8:25 HERphernaan.)

Doing the Lord’s work homie!!!

Well this cleared up some things, just finished 3 but haven’t played any others. Some optional boss fights make more sense if you know these plot lines

I played back then, and Im playing it now before release

You forgot the Dark Souls part after you get Imoen and wolves murder your party 10 times.

This makes me feel old

BG2 still might be the greatest RPG I've ever played.

Can't believe its been 25 years...wow...EQ came out a year later and changed gaming for me forever.

Where's my boy Korgan? Not even a passing mention? The crit with his axe was so satisfying. Plus, he and the gnome are hilarious

"I serve the flaming fist" you knew you were getting up to no good when hearing this hahaha

This brings back memories :). First played BG (when it was originally released) and hadnt have a clue how to play RPGs, except Diablo. I was going in like that, experiencing only Diablo. So without the help of internet or anything and not understanding properly english, i started to play as a Thief. No rolling stats, although the option was there, but i wasnt aware of any of that, i thought as in Diablo, u just go with what u have, so i went, luckily except strength i was actaully not that bad, oh and constitution was like 9 and strength too :), so yeah, was a weak thief and not really durable either. But ididint know, so i went on, battles later easy, first for me hard, like very, but as i went on, with quests, the main story etc. i was hooked. Btw. HP rolls on lvl up, i just let them be whatever, so i ended up having like 40hp lvl 9 thief (if u max. it, u can have like 72 hp, if i did do the math right, with items, a bit more, but strictly constitution wise and max hp every lvl up, u end up with 72). So yeah, not the best thief, anyway, to cut it short, i finished off Sarevok even with this weak as party, cause with other characters i did the same, no max hp when lvl ing up, so the strongest was like khalid with 80hp or so, yeah, max shoudve been like 90+ so it wasnt that bad, but the others were, like Dynaheir with 30 hp or something, i mean seriously underpowered party and still did get that Sarevok sob, i admit with some wands and all, but it worked :). After that when i told my friend who introduced me into this world of RPGs, he was like WTF, showed me that i can roll, showed me that i can max lvl up, with reloading. I was eager to go and make another character and another and so on. I was hooked like never ever. When i learned that u can take over u characters to the second game, i was hooked even more. Experimenting and making a Cleric taht will have 25 strength and with a +5 Hammer (u need to assembly it first, but even the basic hammer is +3 so all in all not bad, but after making it whole, it is one of the best weapons of BG2, in my opinion)

Excellent stuff

I beat it with only a 2 player party. A Druid shape-shifting Werewolf and a multi-class companion who was mage-thief-cleric. The hardest battle by far for me was the Lich. Final battle with Sarevok only took 2 tries. I LOVED the Werewolf. So much fun and good memories. I tried the Lich battle about 40 times before learning i needed a +4/+5 weapon.

I played through baldurs gate 2 multiple times as a young teenager really liked that game

I'm hyped for anything D&D that looks cool. I'm a sucker like that

I played both, and they are great!

thank you that was perfect

Honorable mention to watchers keep, not part of the story, but epic dungeon crawl nonetheless, I have good memories from that one as well

thanks for the story background

I know it won't happen, but my dream would be a remake of the old Baldur's Gate Story in the way of Baldur's Gate 3. :)

I played baldur’s gate: dark alliance 1&2…never got to play the originals but I’ll be getting into them soon and im hype

2:28 Hondo Ohnaka IS THAT you??? MY fav pirate buddy from starwars!

damn what a way to feel old the baldur's gate game where the first rpgs I played on pc

Ty cause its overwhelming playing this lol