Beamdog's BG Remake and further speculation

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Most people would rather have all of their games in one service and not have to create multiple accounts.

https://twitter.com/#!/TrentOster/status/174651842561708032

Can rpgcodex re-tweet that shit or something ? I'm not venturing forth into Twitter, them selling all racords and all..

Also, he said his company will be making an announcement soon, and it's not going to be the Steam edition of BG.

Look at his twitter posts before that. In particular: https://twitter.com/#!/TrentOster/status/170634043753381888/photo/1

Definitely points toward a shitty iOS port. Although he makes references to looking for "2D artists" and building level assets. "High Defintion" port/remake? Who knows. It will probably be disappointing, whatever it ends up being. The IE games don't need redone graphics; the games still look amazing when you crank the engine to 1920x1080. More appealing than modern shit, if you ask me.

update: I see their previous project was MDK2 HD. If this isn't a HD facelift of BG for iPad shit I will be surprised. I would only trust Obsidian to do anything that even remotely does justice to the BG series, so no matter what it is it's going to be an embarrassment for sure.

I emailed the guy, he responded fairly quickly but refused to share any additional information.

The iMac thing is breaking my heart, though I am hesitant to believe it will be simply an iOS port assuming he will want to push his Beamdog service as much as possible. I wouldn't mind it being a sort of BGT treatment with updated UI/character models; updated, unique sprites or w/e would look great on the existing backgrounds... especially since I can't stand the current ones. Enormous helmets + stabbing with a greatsword is blah.

Yeah, the character sprites in the BG games are the only sore spot, I agree. The monsters aren't nearly as bad, and the backgrounds and character portraits stand up fine, and even look better than they originally did due to how the Infinity Engine scales resolution so well.

I doubt that, if they're doing a HD upgrade, they will leave the parts that are fine alone. Playing BG with a different graphical style would be stupid, I can almost guarantee.

They are going to develop some shitty BG for iPhone

I wish this insufferable chucklefuck would just spit it out and explain what he's doing.

He's just building publicity. He and his project are being discussed on almost every gaming website/forum, so it only makes sense that he rides it as long as possible before it dies down when he announces that it's only "Baldur's Gate: iPad Edition" rather than BG3 like many people are hopelessly speculating.

The website being for a brand new BG game is almost an impossibility. Consider the current notes on the page:

<!-- February 28, 2012 -->
<!-- Shadowy Figure- Raise Dead : Infinity Engine -->
<!-- For years, I clung to the memory of it. Then the memory of the memory. -->
<!-- And then... it returned. Better than it was before. -->
<!-- Pore over the tapestries and works of art hanging from our walls if you wish, Child of Bhaal... perhaps you will find a clue. But patience, ah... patience would reveal it all. -->
<!-- As the silver moon waxes and wanes, so too does life. -->

This clearly alludes to a rerelease of the old game(s). "And then... it returned. Better than it was before." Not quit subtle.

All hopes I had died when I gazed into this guy pic...he looks like a douche trying to make quick money on hopeless BG fans.

Slowly dying inside. MCA please tell us your progress with the possible project.

I don't know what to think about this. BG2 is my favorite rpg...

I'd lie if i said i'm not curious, but the fear they are going to screwup and create some sort of BG3 for babies it's very high.

Chance of having a sequel to BG2 is pretty much impossible for obvious reasons, so he can go fuck himself.

There was a spanish mod taking place after TOB events. <charname> returns to Candlekeep after refusing to become a god, then some shit happens. So it's possible to force a continuation of the storyline. They could also go NWN Storms of Zephyr route, acting like TOB never happened. Or whatever. Plot is the least significant problem of eventual sequel.

If you're making a joke I don't get it.

This was a rulebook for playing Immortals (extremely high level characters) in D&D. Hence the rules for running them. WTF are you talking about?

I meant proper sequel or anything in vein of Infinity Engine games. No chance for that.

I still think my idea of a sequel where you explore the outer planes as a god would be awesome. You could even meet the D&D/Forgotten Realms pantheon and visit Sigil. It would be way more interesting than trudging through the Sword Coast as a low level character again.

Uh, gods are instant killed as soon as they fall into Sigil.

Ooooh, better not let word of this gaffe reach the folks in the RPS comments.

But it would be Elminster this, Elminster that.

Just as the Sword Coast doesn't need to be revisited, neither does Sigil. PS:T modeled it nicely, it's been featured in a few NWN modules; let it lie also.

Aren't there countless planes and plenty of other cities/adventuring environments that could be the romping grounds of a BG3-ready, Bhaalspawn badass? City of Brass? So many layers of the Abyss never covered, etc.

As much as I dislike high-level godlike wankery in my D&D, this would be fun if someone with half the writing skills of MCA, et al, lent their time to it.

Never happen, though. Talk about wankery.

I didn't know they were "instant" killed. But yeah, you're largely right. Having said that, perhaps there's a process of ascension and in the first half of the game you aren't an actual deity yet. I didn't fail my lore check. Honest!

But anyway, the outer planes. There's a whole bunch of them and each one is unique. There's plenty of opportunity for a game to be set there, even without fucking around in the outlands.

High level adventures in ADD / DnD 3.x are fail by design. TOB and Mask of the Betrayer proved this.

No. Dumbfuck tag for you.

MotB, while not without warts, was the best of the NWN2 official campaigns. It was surpassed only by Mysteries of Westgate as a module and even that assertion is going to be heavily challenged.