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Muckraker  Posts: 226 Joined: 9 Oct 2008     | oh man oh man oh man oh man... make another baldurs gate game FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!! i LOVED those games back in the day! its probably the only thing that'll re-spark my interests in any RPG that isnt fallout |
Beat Writer  Posts: 135 Joined: 30 Oct 2008     | With BioWare almost surely off the case and Black Isle, you know, dead, I think I can keep my enthusiasm in check. Will they hand the reins to Obsidian? If so, can those poor folks not have their product rushed onto shelves to hit a release date? |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 511 Joined: 17 Jun 2008     | God i hope they dont change the formula much, just some nice graphics is all it needs!!! |
Copy Clerk Posts: 68 Joined: 24 Oct 2008    | They should make it like Fallout 3 but with swords. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 897 Joined: 24 Jun 2008     | Go for the eyes boo! go for the eyes! |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 537 Joined: 12 Mar 2008   | "Live by the sword... live a good, long time!" |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 1 Joined: 17 Sep 2008    | "Full plate, and packing steel" A brilliant game. I've even still got the original box (very battered) and game manual, which was a book unto itself. I don't see how they'll continue the Baldurs Gate storyline though. They ended it pretty definitively in Throne of Bhaal. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 393 Joined: 7 Feb 2008   | I remember I didn't like Baldur's gate at all. Maybe this game can change my mind. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1830 Joined: 20 Mar 2008  |
"LET THE RIVERS RUN REEEED!" Anywho, I really hope this becomes reality. I also hope that they either don't change the system, or just change the system enough to accommodate 3.5 rules. Death to 4E until Monks and Druids. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 209 Joined: 2 Jan 2008  | :JAWDROP: So long as they keep the parties, party interaction, good story telling a dialogue that isn't good, neutral, bad like most bloody RPG's these days, I'm happy. If they do away with that... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2770 Joined: 13 Feb 2008  |
Oblivion? |
Time Lord  Posts: 9921 Joined: 13 Feb 2008     | Evil around every corner. Try not to step in any. Ah, Jim Cummings, what a vocal talent you have; and you'd be gobsmacked at how many other voices he's done. Dare I say : Dick Dastardly, Psycrow, Shredder, Dr. Robotnik, Fuzzy Lumpkin, Lurch, Morocco Mole... |
SUSPENDED  Posts: 6071 Joined: 25 Jan 2008    | If they don't cock it up like they did NWN2, ie going for better 3D graphics instead of the original game's interface everyone loves, this could be very sweet. But in a small way, I'm saddened. Baldur's Gate was good, so was Icewind Dale. I would love another one of those style of game, and I would love it to still be a Forgotten Realms title, but how about a new one. Maybe something focused on Thay, Mulhorand, Chult, the Moonsea, or Cormyr. There's plenty of other places, other stories, in the Realms. Bhaal is dead, lets move on to something new. User was suspended for: MMOG Teaches Kids About Traffic Safety. (3 days) |
Video Producer  Posts: 1097 Joined: 19 Feb 2006    | This could potentially go both ways. It's either great news or heartbreak on the horizon. With the exception of maybe World of Warcraft, I haven't played any game longer then the Baldur's Gate series. I will certainly be keeping on eye on this. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 163 Joined: 1 Dec 2008 |
Indeed I was wondering how they could make a continuation on the game, when it effectively ended after ToB with the whole Epilogues for everyone etc. One possible route they could take is the spawn of the Bhaal-spawn, although that would be a rather tentative link methinks. Here's to hoping that they keep the incredibly engrossing dialogue, rich atmospheric gameplay areas, brilliantly written and voice-acted characters, a story that keeps you gripped to the end and at least 1 appearance of a miniature giant space hamster.
Yep, hopefully they'll be able to balance the Baldur's Gate feel with modernised graphics and gameplay elements, which seems insanely hard to achieve given the rather recent attempt at the same goal for a different game series... |
Muckraker  Posts: 237 Joined: 24 Sep 2008    | More elves and dwarves and orcs and dragons? No, thank you. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 785 Joined: 20 Sep 2007   | You know how the Deus Ex 3 development team said that Deus Ex 1 was "kind of slow" and lacked "exciting, memorable moments." Well, I fully expect to hear something very similar with regards to BG3. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 86 Joined: 11 Sep 2008 | It's kind of funny to see someone asking for no more elves and the like, when they have an avatar of what I can only imagine is some sort of goblin. Anyway, if they're going to publish a D&D game after 2009, it's probably going to be using the 4th edition ruleset. That's gonna be a big change from the 2nd edition that was used in Baldur's Gate. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 785 Joined: 20 Sep 2007 |
At first I was going to say something like "yeah, because it was the system that made BG good", but now that I think about it you're right! The horror! D: It's gonna be Diablo, only turn-based D: |
Muckraker  Posts: 233 Joined: 22 Jul 2008  | You know what this needs to be? A Fallout 3-style reinvention of the concept, with sprawling open-world gameplay, 4E rules and a completely new setting/story that still involves some charactes of the previous editions (i.e. Harold = Minsc) to still add the nostalgia element of previous games. As a devoted Fallout player in my younger days I was very very skeptical about what Fallout 3 would do to the franchise, and it proceeded to drag me in with mutated arms and not let go. If it could be done right, a Baldur's Gate reboot would be met with the most open of arms. |
Wordsmith Extraordinaire  Posts: 10317 Joined: 28 Nov 2007   | I'd love to try out an actual Baldur's Gate game, and this may be my best chance. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 107 Joined: 2 Jun 2006 | Oh god, not this again....It seems that every 3 years some gamedevs thinks it's a good idea to start a BG3, but frankly they shouldn't. Any attempt to recreate BG is going to fail, because BG wasn't awesome because it tried to reproduce something, it was awesome because until this day there hasn't been an experience quite like it. FYI: Minsc is probably the most memorable character (loved or hated) from the BG series. So it seems that the only thing Baldur's Gate is about is....The city....and Minsc....yeah, sure. |
Paperboy  Posts: 15 Joined: 21 Jan 2009    | I have high expectations on this as I've loved all the Forgotten Realms games. A Fallout 3 style game would not work with Baldur's Gate I believe they tried something of the sort in those terrible spin-off games for the Xbox and PS2 and it didn't work out. |
BANNED  Posts: 2513 Joined: 3 Dec 2008 | Wait is Bioware making this or Atari? User was banned for: The artist in thee. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4135 Joined: 6 Sep 2008   | Another NWN! Wait...
Oh god they're all going to suck, Bioware isn't making them. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 659 Joined: 19 Jan 2009   | I've only played Baldurs Gate on the ps2, just loved that game.. So if its anything like that i will most definitly have a closer look at it.. |
News Room Contributor Posts: 8020 Joined: 12 Nov 2002 |
So why not try the actual Baldur's Gate game? Should be easy enough to dig it up in one of those "classic collection" packs, or in a jewelcase release. And if you're an RPG fan, they are so worth it. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 577 Joined: 25 Apr 2008  | Atari's making this? Oh Christ... They're going to turn the best CRPG series into a horrible fusion of Baldur's Gate and Final Fantasy, brooding characters and all! I'm going to consider this new Baldur's Gate in the same way that I consider Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The single silver lining of this is that your characters' stories are finished after Throne of Baal. |
Wordsmith Extraordinaire Posts: 10317 Joined: 28 Nov 2007 |
Because my computer has Windows Vista, and I'm only a power user on it, so I cannot install anything. |
Muckraker Posts: 233 Joined: 22 Jul 2008 |
And the award for "Fireballing the fridge" goes to... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1538 Joined: 6 Apr 2008   | Actually...considering that BG2 itself took place mainly in Amn, I suppose as long as like that they keep a cursory connection to the original plot it should be fine to set it anywhere in Faerūn they like. I'm hoping for a jaunt to Thay personally :3 |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3727 Joined: 29 Dec 2007   |
Evil meet my sword, SWORD MEET EVIIILL!
Red Wizard fan? |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1538 Joined: 6 Apr 2008 |
Hell yeah! Ahh Edwin /wistful sigh. |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 4 Joined: 1 Jan 2009 | I don't know if a remake in another game engine would be such a good idea since in my mind the old one was perfect in all the ways. As for a continue on the Baldur's Gate storyline there is nothing to continue on since the saga has reached its finale already. But there is still many mods that can be downloaded so one can actually enjoy new happenings for the old game. There are other ways to remake the saga, I am for myself making a comic based on the game, but I am adding and improvising the content because it would be boring to just make a walkthrough comic. links to the comic: |
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New Baldur's Gate On The (Very Distant) Horizon
Speaking of Atari and RPGs, Phil Harrison, president of Atari parent Infogrames, let slip that the company plans to revisit some of its past classics, including - ohmygod - Baldur's Gate.
In an admittedly thin comment made during a press event in Europe, Harrison said, "Atari plans to revisit the likes of Baldur's Gate, Dungeons & Dragons, Neverwinter Nights and Test Drive Unlimited, but not in the next 12 months. You will hear more from these but not today, because we're focused on 2009."
It's not much to go on, but for a Baldur's Gate fan, or any old-school RPG player for that matter, it's potentially huge. Baldur's Gate single-handedly brought the CRPG genre back to life and led to the creation of everything from Icewind Dale to Storm of Zehir. It's not an overstatement to say that without that seminal BioWare RPG, the face of videogaming today would be very different.
Of course, the downside to a decade-late follow-up to such an influential and highly-regarded game is obvious: Baldur's Gate is a tough enough act to follow in its own right, and ten years of nostalgia is a prism that can bend expectations beyond all reasonable limits. It's not a question of whether it's likely that Atari can meet those demands, but if it's even possible. Needless to say, I'll be watching this one very closely.
Source: Eurogamer
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