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Baldur's Gate

Trivia

In the German gaming magazine PC Player (issue 01/2000) Baldur's Gate was named as "Best RPG in 1999".

A Playstation 5-disc version was revealed to be in the works by Interplay on October 25, 1999. It was to be ported by UK developer Runecraft but on March 29, 2000 it was put "on hold" and never saw the light of day.

In 1999, Baldur's Gate has won the Gold-Award from the German VUD (Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland - Entertainment Software Association Germany) for selling more then 100,000 (but less then 200,000) units in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Wizards of the Coast published a novelization of this game in 1999, written by Forgotten Realms series editor Philip Athans.

Baldur's Gate was ranked # 11 in the 50 Best Games of All Time list published by PC Gamer Magazine in its April 2005 issue.

Contributed by PCGamer77 (3025) on Mar 19, 2005.

Visit the cemetery in one of the towns, and you'll be able to read many funny inscripts on the graves. My personal favorite is: "Here lies an atheist, all dressed up, and no place to go" :)

Contributed by Unicorn Lynx (69246) on Oct 23, 2002.

Origin Award Winner for Best Role-Playing Computer Game for 1998.

Contributed by Chris Martin (1116) on May 02, 2001.

The guy who voices Sarevok, the penultimate evil, also voices the narrator. Ok, most of the voice actors do more than one character so this is probably coincidence. But in Icewind Dale, another AD&D game by Black Isle, the ultimate evil and narrator are done by the same guy again, and in that game it's a plot point.

Baldur's Gate was voted #9 overall in PCGamer Magazine's Readers All-Time Top 50 Games Poll (April 2000 issue).

Contributed by PCGamer77 (3025) on Jan 21, 2001.

Though he appears only once in the game, the legendary Drizzt Do'Urden makes a brief but sweet (and rewarding) guest appearance in a certain part of the game. Drizzt is a very famous D&D character that sprung from the Dark Elf Trilogy of forgotten realms-based novels by R.A. Salvatore.