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Baldur's Gate Beamdog's Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 Enhanced Editions
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Manuals are for retards. Real oldfags learn a game all by themselves, with readme.txt being their only advice. There was no pdf format back in the day of pirated floppies, you noob.
As far as remaking is concerned, that's kind of a grey zone as far as I see it. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to repackage BG for Magog or those "complete editions". All it takes it to convince the parties involved the property is the same old IP, not a brand new product they'd have to license anew. As to where a line is drawn between a patched reissue with one byte changed and a brand new game with new engine, new art and new content, that's for attorneys to decide. I'd figure with all content being reused from the original and all art being replicated from the original, chances are it will pass as legit. The only truly brand new part would be the code, and code has nothing to do with IPs.
But you can bet there will never be a commercial BG3 using 2nd edition, that much is obvious.
MMXI
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I agree. And I don't think a Baldur's Gate remake would use anything other than 2nd edition rules, because the time-line for the settings seems to be tied to D&D version changes.
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That alone is enough to get me extremely excited.
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Also - and I apologize if this has already been posted in this thread (I haven't read every single post) - but I guess this tidbit was at one point in the source code at baldursgate.com
For years, I clung to the memory of it. Then the memory of the memory.
And then... it returned. Better than it was before.
This seems to point to the HD remake theory as well.
For years, I clung to the memory of it. Then the memory of the memory.
And then... it returned. Better than it was before.
This seems to point to the HD remake theory as well.
If it's an HD remake for the iOS only, I just don't really care. I'm still thinking it's just some iOS port and that's it.
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The game probably will be in Baldur's Gate universe but it will not be Baldur's Gate 3, because the story of the specific character ended in 2. It might be a spin-off of a different Bhaal kid. The logo is a hint. It is the combination of Throne of Bhaal skull and background of Baldur's Gate 1.
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So my best bet currently is that, that you will be playing another Bhaal spawn.
Same skull as ToB = story will unfold after ToB or at same time.
Same background as BG1 = it will be a 'new story' and will be focused more like BG1 with a lot of different locations to explore, sort of an 'adventure' like BG1 was with all the locations that you could visit on the map.
hey, dreams do come true sometimes.
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So my best bet currently is that, that you will be playing another Bhaal spawn.
Same skull as ToB = story will unfold after ToB or at same time.
Same background as BG1 = it will be a 'new story' and will be focused more like BG1 with a lot of different locations to explore, sort of an 'adventure' like BG1 was with all the locations that you could visit on the map.
hey, dreams do come true sometimes.
Revenant
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You are reading too much into it. Now that it is clear that the image on the site is a rehashed version of earlier skulls, it is pretty obvious that the site is only a fan teaser.
Syril
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what ? Actualy there are hundreds if not thousands of bhaal spawns.
Watch the BG 1 ending
Morkar Left
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I for once will start to download all mod related things as long as it's still available.
I meant named Bhaalspawn of "hero" material.
Syril
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If they are Bhaalspawns they all are already a hero material, otherwise they wouldn't be in same place as Sarevok was.
Revenant
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Wrong, there are regular people Bhaalspawns as well. In the start of ToB, you meet a soul of a dead Bhaalspawn who supposedly lived a quiet and simple life.
Syril
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Ofcourse there are regular people, but everyone is a 'material' because he is a Bhaal spawn and has the spark of the dead god in him.
If i was a God but lived a normal life does it mean i don't have the potential to be a God? It is only the will of one which dictates of what he becomes.
That is why all those characters are in the same room as Sarevok, because they have more or less the same potential as he did, but the paths they've chosen might be different.
Revenant
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In D&D, pretty much anyone is hero material, as a 1st level fighter doesn't differ that much from a 0 level commoner 
Check Pathfinder. Fighter is a killing machine.In D&D, pretty much anyone is hero material, as a 1st level fighter doesn't differ that much from a 0 level commoner
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I don't know, I don't think it's a fan teaser. I am pretty sure Trent Oster is at least doing something relating to BG and the games.
If it turns out to be absolutely nothing at all and just someone trolling for publicity, which is actually a very good possibility seeing how this guy is running with the attention, he's a massive dickhead. Unfortunately, I guess that could be possible since the domain "baldursgate.com" was a dropped, parked domain earlier this year and any random person could have bought it. You can see what it looked like prior to him purchasing it here: http://web.archive.org/web/20100129160106/http://www.baldursgate.com/
On the flipside, if this wasn't an officially sanctioned project then whoever owns the license would have had the site yanked by now, wouldn't it? It's using the actual music from the game, even. Then again, probably not considering there are lots of fan sites that use the game's assets and even use "baldur's gate" in the domain name. Whoever owns the BG license didn't even care enough to get the domain name, which they easily could have; it was parked like that for years and years.
It seems as though baldursgate.com was never an official domain, ever. In 2001 it redirected to a porn site.
curry
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Those are not other Bhaalspawns, they are just other mortals
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I have one.
He's trolling us and the messages don't mean anything. M:
He's trolling us and the messages don't mean anything. M:
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