Website Teases New Baldur's Gate ... Something - UPDATED
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The hidden messages on that website speak to the heart.
"For years, I clung to the memory of it. Then the memory of the memory." His speech was so damn good, definitely some of the best writing in gaming.
There's another hidden message up right now, "Take heart fellow adventurers, for you have curried the favor of Boo, the only miniature giant space hamster in the Realm!". It seems like they change it every few days or something.
So yea, I don't even care what this is. My nostalgic heartstrings have been yanked to an unimaginable length. Whoever is working on whatever this is, they know why Baldur's Gate is great, and that makes me happy.
It can't be a re-release since that's already been done, so it's either an HD remastering or an iOS release. I'm hoping for the former, but either way, anything that gets these gems into the hands of more people is a great thing to me.
Edit: I've said this in other places, but it's amazing how unanimous everyone is in agreement that we don't want Bioware touching Baldur's Gate for fear that they would ruin it. It hurts to say that, but it's so damn true. Minor characters like Anomen and Nalia would be cut off and sold as DLC and all the classes would be funneled down into the trio of warrior, thief, and wizard in the current state of Bioware.
There is no middle finger big enough, EA.
Edit2: If no one else mentioned, it's pretty easy to look into the page source of a website. Most browsers have it in their basic options, called "View Page Source", under the web developer category in Firefox at least. Or you can just right click and the option should be there. Scanning through what pops up, you can easily see the messages scattered about.
"For years, I clung to the memory of it. Then the memory of the memory." His speech was so damn good, definitely some of the best writing in gaming.
There's another hidden message up right now, "Take heart fellow adventurers, for you have curried the favor of Boo, the only miniature giant space hamster in the Realm!". It seems like they change it every few days or something.
So yea, I don't even care what this is. My nostalgic heartstrings have been yanked to an unimaginable length. Whoever is working on whatever this is, they know why Baldur's Gate is great, and that makes me happy.
It can't be a re-release since that's already been done, so it's either an HD remastering or an iOS release. I'm hoping for the former, but either way, anything that gets these gems into the hands of more people is a great thing to me.
Edit: I've said this in other places, but it's amazing how unanimous everyone is in agreement that we don't want Bioware touching Baldur's Gate for fear that they would ruin it. It hurts to say that, but it's so damn true. Minor characters like Anomen and Nalia would be cut off and sold as DLC and all the classes would be funneled down into the trio of warrior, thief, and wizard in the current state of Bioware.
There is no middle finger big enough, EA.
Edit2: If no one else mentioned, it's pretty easy to look into the page source of a website. Most browsers have it in their basic options, called "View Page Source", under the web developer category in Firefox at least. Or you can just right click and the option should be there. Scanning through what pops up, you can easily see the messages scattered about.
You know that Helper worked on DA:O? Yet it isn't the "sub-fanfiction quality garbage" that ou said something would be simply because of her involvement.Candidus said:
I was wondering if you were insulting her because you didn't understand her role in development and belived she had any leading impact or because it made your penis feel bigger. I'm still not sure which.
My first thought was "Oh hey, they are importing Dragon Age in to Dungeons & Dragons." My second thought was "Oh, they are importing Dragon Age in to Dungeons & Dragons."
Oh the picture is of Minsc and his faithful hamster Boo, Baldur's Gate characters.
Oh the picture is of Minsc and his faithful hamster Boo, Baldur's Gate characters.
And as it has been pointed out to me on the previous page, EA and Bioware CAN'T touch it because Baldur's Gate and the rights (which I should have known...foolish) are part of Forgotten Realms and Hasbro.Draxyle said:
So in a fit of irony, Hasbro has done the world a service for once by cock-blocking EA.
Even in the absence of that point, I still agree with your sentiment.
If EA had the rights (no matter which subsidiary they assigned to the project) it would inevitably boil down to the same shit as usual: Dumb down the original archetype to whatever they think is popular, make some console the primary platform and base ALL of the gameplay design around that market archetype (cue the mob of assholes bearing torches and chanting "PC Elitist"...).
Then after announcement, but before launch, EA will pretend to listen to and then ignore the cries of the fans of the original series. Launch game, stain franchise, repeat until that developer+franchise is no longer of any value to them, close down developer.
And honestly, that's the EA-cycle. They've been doing that to developers and their franchises/names for over a decade now.
It's a picture of Minsc with his miniature giant space hamster Boo from Baldur's Gate.dr3ll said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsc
I'm really hoping that's what this is because I loved those games.Necron_warrior said:...Baldur's gate: Dark alliance 3?
KefkaCultist said:Ah, I've lost countless hours with my friends 2-playering it. My childhood in DA & DA2.dr3ll said:I'm really hoping that's what this is because I loved those games.Necron_warrior said:...Baldur's gate: Dark alliance 3?
I think they still both work actually
There goes my Thursday
Oh thank you for pointing it out this time. I've been around for 2 pages correcting every single person who read the article since then it was misinforming people. Even now people still don't realize that Bioware doesn't have the rights and neither do EA. I think I might have to make a topic on the forums to people telling them that but I doubt that has any discussion value in it.Atmos Duality said:
I think it's worth noting that Bioware/EA can't touch Baldur's Gate... unless WotC says they can. In this particular case it appears that we've dodged that bullet, so yay us, I suppose. But still, pointing out that Bioware doesn't own Baldur's Gate is only a partial truth, completed by the phrase, "and neither does anyone else that makes video games,"80Maxwell08 said:
Here's hoping that WotC learns from past mistakes and doesn't grant an exclusive long term license to any one company this time.
Anyone know if this trailer is real? Recently uploaded by an account called 'beamdogger', looks pretty genuine... http://youtu.be/wpPU-MtBqrA
Given that anything other than an HD remake would take(hopefully) a couple of years, I wouldn't be incredibly surprised if they end up using the upcoming 5th Edition rules(although those are still being hammered out, it seems). Then again, I would not be totally against a 4E game... if nothing else, 4E's mini-centric nature makes it fairly well suited for video games. I just don't want to play the game at the table.Fappy said:
I would agree in it looks pretty genuine though if it is I don't know why the company didn't just use beamdog instead of beamdogger since whoever owned beamdog deleted their account. Maybe they heard about that problem that if someone deletes their account and someone else uses that name later the original owner can get on it and start messing stuff up like when someone went on the sesame street channel and uploaded porn onto it. Still I got no real idea but thanks for posting that.SinisterChrisP said:
Ideally I'd love to see this as BG3 and BG 1 and 2 included as downloadable extras. I only ever played BG dark alliance, but I found that game to be pretty good and if I could find a copy of Dark alliance 2 I'd get it, but I heard 1 and 2 are amazing so I would like to try them.
Well here's the thing about a hypothetical BG3... I have no idea what it would do. Baldur's Gate is a complete story. The main character's story is done. The only thing I could maybe see is taking the Throne of Bhaal and expanding it into a full game rather than an expansion, and I'm not sure how well that would be received by the community.NightHawk21 said:
It's not official. Trent Oster just posted in there saying that if it had been them, they would have been required to put the official logos in as well. This is just a fan trailer.80Maxwell08 said: