Preview Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear Opening Cutscene and Gameplay Snippets at GameSpot

[FeelTheRads]

Yeah, and I'm saying you have no clue what you're saying.
Hence:

Location: Romania

 

[Florian Gheorghe]

Yeah, and I'm saying you have no clue what you're saying.
Hence:

Location: Romania

you are trying to piss me off right? there's no way that you could be that ignorant...

 

[FeelTheRads]

OK. And here ladies and gentlemen we have a prime example of newfag. Raised on quest compasses and NPC markers, he will fail to understand any game that doesn't play itself.

 

[Florian Gheorghe]

OK. And here ladies and gentlemen we have a prime example of newfag. Raised on quest compasses and NPC markers, he will fail to understand any game that doesn't play itself.

no way man! no way! I hate quest compasses. Are you sure I am not older then you are?

 

[Excidium II]

FeelTheRads has a thing for young boys, you better be careful.

 

[Florian Gheorghe]

FeelTheRads has a thing for young boys, you better be careful.

"drinks ironskin potion"

 

[A user named cat]

Character models looking as awful and globby as ever. Why does everyone have black outlines around them? Looks like an Android port.

 

[FeelTheRads]

And the best thing is, in the end nothing was learned.

 

[Excidium II]

Character models looking as awful and globby as ever. Why does everyone have black outlines around them? Looks like an Android port.

It's an optional feature they introduced to make it easier to discern characters during the RTWP clusterfuck.

 

[Excidium II]

And the best thing is, in the end nothing was learned.

I just think you two are talking about different things.

He means this:

 

[FeelTheRads]

I'm not sure which part of that he means, though.

 

[Florian Gheorghe]

I just think you two are talking about different things.

He means this:

Indeed.

 

[Florian Gheorghe]

Character models looking as awful and globby as ever. Why does everyone have black outlines around them? Looks like an Android port.

watched the last twitch and yeah that bothered me a lot as well.
love what they did with the map thought.

 

[ROARRR]

Why does everyone have black outlines around them?

Obviously to make them more visible and I am happy that it is optional. The more interesting question is: What can they do to make them better visible without making it ugly?

 

[CptMace]

How many times have I wandered with my mouse over the screen playing Baldur's Gate, searching for the characters.
Oh yeah, none.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Skipping through your own dialog in your own gameplay demo?

 

[ROARRR]

How many times have I wandered with my mouse over the screen playing Baldur's Gate, searching for the characters....

Good for you, but check the pic and you will see that some chars are not very good visible. To improve that is a question of usability and that means the gameflow will be more fluent by improving it.

 

[CptMace]

You're right. I apologize. I tried to spot the chars myself and I could only find one :

Spoiler

He suspiciously looks like a tree though.

 

[ArchAngel]

You are an idiot. They are not making this for you, but for people that never played BG before. I applaud all their efforts to change only UI for those people while leaving base game and all mechanics 100% intact. Or would you rather they went Pillars of Eternity route?
This forum is so full of retards, it is incredible.

 

[ROARRR]

You're right. I apologize.

You are welcome!

Spoiler

 

[Irenaeus III]

Blow him up!

 

[Trodat]

I played BG at a much later stage for the first time and never had any issues with the UI. You have to be a retarded modern gamer to find it unplayable because of the UI. (Yes most players belong to this group and that's where the money is.)

 

[Trashos]

They stated in their twitch stream that the outlines will be useful in the big battles (150 people IIRC) in the later part of the game.

 

[vivec]

And the best thing is, in the end nothing was learned.

I just think you two are talking about different things.

He means this:

The funny thing is that formations like that have no final impact on the overall quality of real-time RPGs where the AoE is way larger than that anyway. This either renders the formation moot or the AI stupid enough never to use this fact to its advantage.