Top 50 Games of All Time Continued

GameSpy has continued their coverage of the “Top 50 Games of All Time” with numbers 40-31. Several RPGs are covered in today’s 10, including the original Baldur’s Gate and its sequel, Baldur’s Gate II. Here’s a quote from BG2:

Baldur’s Gate burst onto the PC gaming scene and proved to us that RPGs weren’t dead (you’ll note that it made #36 on our list in recognition of its triumph). But it wasn’t perfect — your character options were a bit limited and gameplay was hampered by a need to travel great distances back and forth across the map manually (one … screen … at … a … time.) Baldur’s Gate II, however, was everything we loved about the first game with many of the gameplay issues straightened out. It was bigger (so huge you could play for months without solving it), better, faster-paced, and gave the player more options than ever before. It continued the epic storyline in a new direction and allowed your characters to harness tremendous powers. The Baldur’s Gate series has a way of, more than any other game, giving you the open-ended ‘anything can happen’ experience familar to anyone who’s table-top roleplayed with a good dungeon master before. No surprise these two tiles both made our top fifty.