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General: Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition to Launch Today
SBFord
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While not an MMO, Baldur's Gate holds a lot of fond memories for many MMO players. Today marks a seminal date in the game's history with the official launch of the 'Enhanced Edition' at 3 p.m. EST/Noon PST. Players will be able to grab BGEE for $19.99 and can play via Google Play with more platform editions to be added later.
Want to know what makes Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition special? Check out our PAX Preview!
Head to the Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition site for more information.
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More like a rerelease. The founder of Overhaul games is one of the original devs from the first make of BG1. He finally got back the license so he can update the pixelation for widescreen monitors and make improvements, along with adding more content and better voice overs.
I am going to purchase as soon as I get home from work.
Overhauls next project is BG2.
There is additional content added as well as some fixes.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
Between these getting updated and Project Eternity from Obisidian (Whenever it gets released..) I'm going to be quite happy for a while I think
That explains why I saw Fallout 1 & 2 on the Beamdog website as sale as well. Perhaps those 2 classics will be overhauled as well soon..?
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Thinking about it... Lets hope Planescape Torment will be overhauled soon as well. Now that would be awesome to be re-released!
It's a must have for me.
Replaying it after all those years with a bit new stuff will be cool. I hope enough support might case some people to think of making a new BG game or go more back to these sort of RPGs.
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Some more love for the old (epic) RPGs is needed indeed. Way to many older RPGs can't be played well these days on our PCs
Also worth to mention that there's a BG2 remake for Dragon Age going on as well now -> http://www.gamersnexus.net/bgr-home. One I'm eagerly waiting for as well...
Epic game! When Bioware was Bioware!
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Ummm wasn't this game Black Isle Studio and not Bioware?
No. Bioware Developed it. Black Isle Studio/Interplay published it.
While I loved this entire series.... $20 is an insult to the fans. It may have been "enhanced" but unless they put everyone to include the UI and scenerey and wrapped them in delicious DX10, then $10 would be more than adequate to rerelease this game.
Compared to graphics of today's games, subpar... I would have expected more.
It would be problematic to change the graphics to something much more modern and risk losing the original feel as well. I just loaded up BG2 to compare it, and that trailer does look much cleaner and less pixelated, though I guess that's the only thing you can really tell (don't know how much they've changed gameplay wise).
Does the $20 pay for both the BG1 & 2 + expansions and everything? In that case I'd say it's worth it.
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I'm very excited for the EE, I was just playing the original a few months age wishing I could play in widescreen.
I'm also glad they didn't mess with the graphics to much because that would have made it cost far more and be completely unnecessary.
Can't imagine why people who don't like old school games waste there time posting about how much they don't like a thing.
I mean some people actually do a thing they dislike, then tell everyone how much they hate it.
You got to hand it to the trailer trash that walk all the way to the library to use a computer just to post their negative support for things they dislike, that's commitment.
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I'm not really interested in playing this (again) on the PC. However, playing this with a touch interface on my iPad 3? Oh yeah!
Given the iPad version is also half the entry price (the other half is IAPs for voice and icon packs if I recall), it is a great deal as well.
Would LOVE to see this DA version of BG2!!!!