Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition - Siege of the Dragonspear Grows to 35+ Hours of Play

A few years ago, the team at Beamdog began their reproduction of classic Black Isle RPG Baldur’s Gate. The team followed this up with reproductions of Baldur’s Gate II and Icewind Dale, more classic RPGs from days past. Over the summer, Beamdog announced an upcoming expansion to Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition, called “Siege of Dragonspear.” This expansion would feature brand new content that’s meant to bridge the void between Baldur's Gates one and two.

Siege of Dragonspear was initially meant to be a short piece of DLC; however, Trent Oster of Beamdog said of the title: “It grew in scope and we realized we were tight on time and needed to put more effort into Baldur’s Gate II ahead of its launch, so Dragonspear went on the backburner." According to Oster, the expansion continued to grow as the team returned to working on it, and so the short DLC grew to 15 hours of play, then onto 35 hours "if you play the critical path and don't do much besides."

Now pending release for early 2016, the expansion hosts new dungeons and open-world areas as well as “giant battles.” Players will be able to take part in much larger fights with other allies, import characters from Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition, or create entirely new ones. Writer Amber Scott emphasizes that Siege of Dragonspear will be more "emotionally impactful" if players use their imported characters.

There's no release date for Siege of Dragonspear as of yet and the game will require Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition to play.

- Keegan "HornetSting" Gallick.