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wtf is going on with Baldur's Gate?
Bullio
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So there's this, which spawned articles like this today from sites I've never heard of and bastions of high-quality gaming journalism like Kotaku. What does it all mean? The popular speculation I drudged up from my 2 minutes of Googling yielded the following speculation:
1) An iPad port (site's source code mentions the Infinity Engine, and this would be a great thing to show off at the iPad 3 reveal next week *HINT HINT, damnit!*)
2) A new game (maybe BG3, perhaps an MMO [please, no], or a f2p Facebook game [NO!!])
3) It's not related to BG2 complete being released on Steam (which I guess has been confirmed to happen outside of the Steam registry link?)
The site is registered to this guy, who apparently worked on BG1 and is now with Beamdog. He's not saying anything right now, but is fueling speculation with his latest tweets (whether he means to or not). But judging by his twitter profile pic, he obviously knows something. That's not an expression capable of coming from an ignorant, innocent person. Smug jerk.
Spoiler:
Oh, and the DnD anthology collection with BG 1/2, IWD 1/2, ToEE, and PS:T is still $7 at GamersGate.
EDIT: Completely unhelpful teaser from questionable source complete with misspelled title.
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Y'know, that'd be really awesome actually. Probably not the case, but still.
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Expect it to be a multiplayer FPS based on the Baldurs Gate license. But instead of being based on D&D it'll be a reimagining in modern times with technology instead of magic.
Atari own the rights to anything D&D related videogame wise, so I imagine they would not need to do so.
If this is a remake or sequel somebody can take all my money.
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I was just about to ask who holds the rights to BALDUR'S GATE. Are you sure it's not Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast ?
Want. WANT WANT WANT.
And only pay lip-service to DnD in calling things like the terrorists "Beholders" and similar. See, it's totally the same game! We even use the same word that they did every now and again in the previous game!
These need to stop. Seriously. I'm not anti-ipod games or anything, but games like Chrono Trigger and FF are classics and porting games like that to something that has no buttons and possibly Kayne West songs on it too is just freaking embarrassing. Please don't add BG to this shamefulness.
I'm pretty sure the aftermath of the lawsuit against Atari ended with Hasbro getting the license back. However, I don't have high hopes given how well Hasbro worked with Troika on TToEE.
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Yup. Hasbro owned it last, and their videogame arm retained the rights. Videogame arm was sold to Infogrames, who bought Atari, who later renamed themselves into the current company we know as Atari. But like I said, just the video game right.
That's where my money is too.
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Nothing. It is mercifully dead.
Take all of my Gold!
Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. I wants it. I wants it bad.
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Summon Dick Cheney (50/50 chance he will attack the summoner)
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*Releases a fantasy FPS inspired by CoD.*
Add 2 bonus points for each of the following criteria:
In the lead up to release:
- The devs will continually assure people how huge fans they are of the first games, but only in the most vague terms.
- They also talk about their "exciting" and innovative new features, which actually look relatively generic and uninteresting
- They get repeatedly asked in the gaming press how they feel about the hardcore fanbase response (inevitably unpleasant and vitriolic)
- They respond in mildly mocking tone that "This is OUR take on the series" and that fans only want an exact replica of the original with moar graphics.
- A controversial marketing faux-pas at some point. Like sending a severed head to people or something, I don't know.
After release:
- The singleplayer campaign is overly linear and with dull gameplay because it took all the wrong lessons from the games it's imitating.
- There is multiplayer but it feels tacked on because they feel it's a necessary requirement today.
- The multiplayer is extremely dependent on persistent unlocks that aren't fun and take forever to get everything.
- The multiplayer dies on its feet and you can barely find a game 3 months after release.
- One year down the line, an off-the-cuff remark by a publisher implies it didn't do as well as hoped for all the marketing money spent.
If the title accrues 10 points or higher, you will be gifted a free copy of... something. Maybe Wing Commander Arena.
"We feel Irenicus' Dungeon was the high point of Baldur's Gate 2, so we used it as the inspiration for the entire single player campaign."
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So either someone bought it off of them, or the hobo and his rats have decided to start working on something else now that Fallout Online is dead.
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Kinda like ArenaNet's April fools gag from last year.
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tbh I'd prefer if they started a new fantasy adventure, the whole baalspawn saga was wrapped up pretty nicely.
RAMIREZ! That Beholder only suffers from +1 attacks, use your +1 NVG bonus!
Oh hell yeah. You play a squad leader for a team of marines who run into some kind of rip in spacetime. You and your squad get chucked into the other world where it's all high fantasy. Then you gotta survive in a world filled with magic, monsters and non-humans. No batteries or power plugs anywhere, no extra ammunition for your firearms, no idea what anyone is saying.
Open world survival action team-based shooter rpg.
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Yeah I don't like it either. It's blatant manipulation of human curiosity for commercial gain. I pretty much loathe anything that doesn't even bother hiding that it's pushing your buttons. I mean, jesus, they could at least try.
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