Baldur's Gate

I decided to play Baldur's Gates again because I have some free time. A quick search showed me that EE ones got some engine update. I know that EEs are fucking retarded, and I'm going to ignore their companions and DLC if I play them, but is it worth playing EE version because of the engine update? What exactly does it do, and how does it affect mods?

If you ask me, the games looks even worse in EE

What class are you going to run?

Haven't decided yet. Probably a wizard or a druid kit

It is mostly the characters which look different in the engine whilst they have also changed the journal to be a bit more convenient and put HP bars over enemy heads instead of the wording like "badly injured". Maps as well are a lot more fluid and different levels of zoom. There is also a bit of balancing put in but added difficulty levels to put it back to normal just make sure you look at the difficulties in the options if you play it so you can decide what you want. Personally I don't mind the updated engine though I thought the game was more than fine without the update. I hadn't played BG until I had played the EE (before the update) so I am not a good reference for a true comparison because I have never played the original release. I came across hardly any bugs though and one of my favourite party members is only in EE (Baeloth) he was an extremely fun person to have in the party. I also use the half-orc Dorn Il Khan as well for a frontman warrior, I usually go evil so… People bitched and complained about the new characters having shitty writing and story but honestly I think that is a serious over reaction, all in all they probably have less than 1000 words said and much like the rest of BG the writing is pretty cliche and minimalistic. I am probably going to go through BG again as well once I finish my run of New Vegas and I have no compulsion to get the original release over the EE, if you don't like the update you can always go to an earlier version.

BG:EE doesn't allow you to sell directly from gem bags unless you also install Dragonspear, so you're getting the extra content whether you like it or not. And you can't completely avoid the new content, sometimes there's forced encounters if you wander too close.
The UI is also different, and EE doesn't have access to all of the 1pp mod updates from what I understand.

Long story short, is better to play the classic with all the mods the autistic dedicated fanbase made.

Curious to know because I haven't played the original but what encounters are forced that aren't in the original? I honestly can't remember very many forced encounters except for maybe 2 which are like a 2 minute battle just to introduce you to some of the new characters.
You can sell gems out of the gem bag btw and the UI is the same if you haven't got the update and if you do it changes the UI to the same as BG2 except for the journal which is streamlined. Have you actualy played it user?

EE adds literally nothing worthwhile.

EE gives you easy install. Some of the EE content is pretty unavoidable, but you can just tell the NPC to fuck off and resume your normal questing.

The latest version fucks up the UI to make it more mobile friendly.