Beamdog Boss Reveals More About Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition
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Azmael Silverlance said:Yeah me too. I played erm tried Baldurs Gate one . . .but it felt extreamly outdated and then i remember i was in this big ass town and i went to a tavern and after a fight inside i lost 1 of my support characters so i got pissed and i never loaded the game again. And that was many many years ago. But a enchanced edition with better graphics and new content is a sure try for me not to mention it will properly work on new PCs now. I remember buying the top-down RPG Robin Hood which is an amazing game and it doesnt work on new generation PCs. So these re-doings of old classics are welcomed with open arms by meCardinalPiggles said:Exactly, if they release it on Steam, I will buy it, and I never played BG 1 or 2.Azmael Silverlance said:Surely they must release this with Steam! Just think how long it will stay as a best-seller and attract even more people
Valve was doing it from the start though weren't they from forcing Half Life 2 to only work with steam. Though someone corrected me with Valve games also being on origin so I'm wrong about that example anyway so who knows now.80Maxwell08 said:
Valve and Blizzard release their own games on their own platforms because they are THAT good and can afford to do it. Blizz has the money from WoW and Steam is a dominant market for digital sales so it doesnt make sense for Valve to seek new distribution when they own the distribution
It could go really well, or it could go really badly.
Bad like the worst idea since greedo shot first.
Bad like the worst idea since greedo shot first.
It's not that bad. THAC0 - AC = Target Number. The only thing that throws people off is that people are used to higher numbers being better, where in the THAC0 system both THAC0 and AC get lower as you improve.Zeel said:
Example: A character has a 17 THAC0. His target has a 5 AC(maybe wearing mail armor). The character needs a result of 12 or higher on a roll of d20, adjusted by any bonuses and penalties.
But THAC0 is easy! As long as You do not mistake it with tacos...Crimson_Dragoon said:
Actually, should probably tell the guys at Beamdog to add a mouse-over tooltip saying "To Hit Armor Class 0"
I actually can't wait for new stream of forum posts saying "WTF my game bugged, i put plate armor+3 and my armor class went down to negative!! Fix ur gaem!".
Ah, glorious AD&D ruleset, how we miss the confusions You brought to many people.
Also, captcha is getting clingy, it says "hug me" so hug your THAC0
Well I checked their twitter and people were right they have mentioned considering a steam release. Though if you seriously won't get this just because it's not on steam really? Also thanks for reminding me to edit my postCardinalPiggles said:
I, on the other hand, hope that they tweak it to more accurately implement the AD&D rules(minus the unarmed combat and grapple rules... seriously, fuck that). The Infinity Engine was always a bit of a hack job, rules wise, and if we're tweaking things anyway, I wouldn't mind that being touched upon. A game as rules accurate as ToEE(but for 2E) with Baldur's Gate's story and characters... that would be nice.gombie said:
I just like to have all my games in one place is all, if I want to switch games, I shouldn't have to close down one programme and open up and log into another. And having both open at once uses too much memory.80Maxwell08 said:
I remember when that one program you needed open to access a game was your operating system. Oh fond days of my youth long past....CardinalPiggles said: