AFAIK , none of the original dialogue has been rewritten . In fact , I ' m fairly certain that editing existing content was off the table when the licensing deal was made . There is new material for new charactersas well as preexisting characters in the all new expansion , and people have varying opinions on that . Most of the bad reviews are regarding the new expansion , and since I haven ' t played it yet , I can ' t weigh in on that . As for the UI , I have a positive view on it , not because what Beamdog came up with was great , but because the EE version is more easily modded than the original . There ' s an entire subforummodding dedicated to modding the UI in BGEE , and some of the results are quite good . For example , multiportraitmodbgsodbg 2 weiduinstallation is a mod that lets you see more than one portrait at a time when making a new character , and lefreutsenhanceduiforbg 1 eebg 1 eesodbg 2 eeandeet is a general UI improvement mod . The base UI us also always under improvement , with another s u b f orumdiscussionandworkshop dedicated to helping Beamdog steer the UI design in a direction consistent with the community ' s wishes . Personally , I see BGEE as a good purchase for any fan of the series , with the caveat that the expansion they made seems to be more of a mixed bag . Unless you are really set on getting your updates through Steam , I kind of recommend getting the stand alone version from Beamdog directly . Not only to they see a bigger cut of the sale that way , but the Steam and GoG versions take a little more effort to make mod friendly , apparently .