Monumental because it not only incorporated the wildly popular Forgotten Realms campaign setting, monsters, and characters from Dungeons & Dragons, but also because it was a game that helped revive interest in PC RPGs-drawing attention away from the endless onslaught of First Person Shooters and Real Time Strategy games that were dominating the market.īaldur’s Gate went on to spawn a sequel and add-ons, and no doubt inspire many other games. When the original Baldur’s Gate hit the PC a few years back, it was a monumental game.
