I think that newly added content shouldn't keep you from buying the game. It's a similar experience when we look at the original content. It would be wise to wait for a sale though. BG EE is frequently available here at a lower price.

No way man, baldurs gate is too good and i'd like the original experience :D

Do you have any idea when a sale might happen? How frequent is it? If a sale comes up soon, I might just buy the game... but waiting until june sale... ughhh:|

There will be a spring sale I presume. :) But the EE can get discounted also on a weekly sale for example. Just add the games to your wish list and you'll get a notification when it happens.

OK thanks, I'll see what I'll do. Spending nearly 40 bucks on baldur's gate is insane. On sale it'll probably be like 10 bucks. NO way I'm spending $36 on it

You can be as wrong as you like or defend Beamdog to your heart's content, that's your prerogative. But change doesn't only occur when something is removed, change occurs when new content is added. Qualify it however you want to hide the fact from new players, I'm not inclined to do likewise.

One of the extras available with a purchase of EE on GOG is a key for the original game (the version that was sold before the EE was created). If you buy the EE, you can just use that key to get the actual original version and play the original without any EE content/changes/UI 'updates'/etc. at all.

To find the key, you'll have to go digging around some though; it is named somewhat misleadingly, iirc. I also seem to recall you have to use a web browser to access the key (not Galaxy), but I might be mixing that up with something else. There have been a number of threads in this sub-forum that detail how to find it.

It comes up pretty frequently in the larger sales, but I don't try to track when those sales occur. Even if it doesn't occur during a spring sale in the next month or two, June and July are only another month or two after that. Give it some time and save some money.

I'm not wrong, you are. You continue with the sophistry. Please, provide the readers with samples of original change. Quote original vs enhanced changes, I challenge you.

There's also a mod available that allows you to selectively disable the new NPCs added in the EE. I have never tried this mod, so your mileage may vary. If it works as advertised, that should bring the EE in line with the original release. That is likely to be a simpler option that fiddling with the bevy of additional mods that would be required to get the original release to run on modern machines at acceptable resolution.

That's not the only difference between classic and EE. EE got rid of all the cutscenes that we present in classic and also changed the intro (including the lines that were spoken by Sarevok). And EE uses a different rule set than the class used.

Your are right, no original dialogues in game were changed. But, if I remember correctly, EE did change the dialogue in the intro.

What happened in the intro (apart from completely changing the cinematic) was they removed the text quote from Nietzsche and omitted the words, "There are more. I can show you" from the unfortunate Bhaalspawn who was throttled and thrown over the parapet. So yes, the cinematic intro was changed for the worse.

The quote is already there. :) Same goes for the words of Bhaalspawn. Perhaps it was changed in some patch.

Define "acceptable resolution". The base GOG version (non-EE) seems to be working fine.

They must have patched it back in after complaints. In the original EE release it was not there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egfgFZATd5E

It looks so. It was an unnecessary modification and it's good they finally decided to make the intro a little closer to the original.