60 DAYS OF GAMING: DECADE ANNIVERSARY - DAY 21: Game with the best story

Then: Baldur's Gate 1 + 2

Now: Still Baldur's Gate 1 +2

I will admit, the choice was tougher this time.

Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 (and 2's expansion, Throne of Bhaal) told a single, amazing story that got deeper and more complex the more you delved into it and the more you interacted with its characters.

It was epic, world changing stuff, but at the same time deeply personal, at times funny and quirky, at times dark.

However, it is not the only game to do so as well since then. The Mass Effect series did the same. The first 2 Dragon Age games, ditto. Witcher 3. Red Dead Redemption 2. Hell, even Odyssey (Assassin't Creed, not Mario), and I am 100% sure there are games in my backlog I have yet to playor play much that also do the same.

But Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 did it first for me. And you never forget your first.

(And you also never want to risk tarnishing the memory of your first with someone who bears the same name but has very little to do with it otherwise, especially story-wise. Looking at you, Baldur's Gate 3)