When comparing The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings vs Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition, the Slant community recommends Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition for most people. In the question“What are the best games on Steam with a rich story?” Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition is ranked 24th while The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition is:
A mage a monk and a half orc are the three new playable characters in the game which also have expanded stories over the original characters.
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Pros
Pro A well-told, dark story based on a book series of the same name
The whole series is based of off a book series of the same name, so there is a lot of good influence to be found, in particular The Witcher 2 is a deep story that has much to do with politics and moral choices. Definitely one of the better stories found in a modern RPG.
Pro Ambiguous moral choices
The choices made in game are not always easy and may stick with the player for some time, which is quite a feet for a game to accomplish as many do not have such good writing.
Pro Three new playable characters
A mage a monk and a half orc are the three new playable characters in the game which also have expanded stories over the original characters.
Pro Enhanced resolution support with new zoom ability
The enhanced edition now supports any resolution one may have on their PC as well as has a new addition of being able to zoom in and out, making it much easier to see what is going on in the game.
Cons
Con Very tough and unbalanced at high difficulty
Play it on normal. Hard modes are frustrating even for expert players
Con User interface can be confusing
While some ares of the UI make sense a lot of it is pretty convoluted which makes playing the game frustrating at times. Basically it is one of those games that if you put it down for any gap in time you will forget a lot of the controls.
Con Stuck with the Infinity Engine
Old system driving the combat is dated and obtuse.
Horrible pathfinding.
Con New missions are buggy
Bugs do appear in the new missions which can easily be solved by reloading the game, but still is quite an annoyance to do so.