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[Preview] General: Baldur's Gate - Visiting an Old Friend
SBFord
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During PAX Prime, we had the opportunity to chat with Overhaul Games about the upcoming release of Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition for PC, iOS and Android devices. See what we discovered about one of the most beloved RPG classics of all time.
Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition is not only bringing back the original game but is also bringing a new game play mode into the classic as well as three new characters, new voice sets for player characters, a huge number of improvements to the original game, new quests to support the new companions, new items and native wide screen resolution support to name just a few of the biggest changes to our old friend.
Read more of Suzie Ford's Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition: Visiting An Old Friend.
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will be good to pick this up again.. its been years since i played it last
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I gather Overhaul games are intending on producing Baldurs gate 3 at some point . There seems to be some confusion whether this will be the unfinnished Baldurs gate 3 the black hound or a totally new game .
So excited for this, and very interested in supporting this team in making this a success so they go on to carry the torch forward with new orginal product that mines the same vein.
Butt kicking for goodness, indeed.
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Sadly enough yes... D&D now is nothing more than a pen & paper version of M:tG
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read this in that voice.
I totally loved this game when it came out on my first PC and i bought it again as part of Forgotten Realms collection.
It's definetely my favourite rpg series of all time but i dont think its worth buying it again unless you have an ipad as the touch control does sound like a good way to experience it again.
Maybe if it has better multiplayer support for the main game i might change my mind.
will it include TOTSC
I'll wait to the day's end when the moon is high
And then I'll rise with the tide with a lust for life, I'll
Amass an army, and we'll harness a horde
And then we'll limp across the land until we stand at the shore
I absolutely loved this game back in the late 90s (I coulda sworn it came out in 97, oops). It is, to me, the closest thing to PnP AD&D that a cRPG has attained.
Why do I say this? Because even though the race and class choices were a little bit little limited (like you couldn't roll a wild mage in BG1 or do a specialist priest for example), it did mainly fit most of the rules, spell descriptions, etc and most important was the open world. There was very little hand holding and very little in the way of directions. Even BG2 was more linear, though not terribly much more.
The first time I played through, I spent most of my game time adventuring in each area, exploring every inch I could. I had already maxed out my levels with hours and hours of play by the time I hit Baldur's Gate and updated my story.
The game was also pretty hard, concentrating more on roleplay characters than characters maximized for their task (Imoen for example did not have an 18/18 dex even though she was a thief).
I am glad to hear it is getting an overhaul, but I am not sure I will rebuy this game. I have still have it on a disc I bought a couple years ago. I also still have the original discs that shipped at release but they are so scratched my drive won't read them.
I do think it is a good way to get people into the game though since I bet the younger crowd have not tried it. In that sense I hope these guys are successful. Perhaps it will influence new developers to incorporate a few oldschool elements that have gone by the wayside with most recent games.
I can't imagine newer games shipping with a story as complex as the BG series or Torment, the high pennacle of cRPG story-telling.
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