Baldur's Gate Beamdog's Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 Enhanced Editions

[Wirdschowerdn]

This just fucking sucks.

First a canceled Obsidian project, now this pathetic zero-information announcement.

 

[Ion Prothon II]

WILL IT HAVE SAREVOK ROMANCE I HOPE SO

Yes, Sarevok will be bisexual and in catsuit. It's a top secret info I've just readed from HTML code.

 

[Aeschylus]

WILL IT HAVE SAREVOK ROMANCE I HOPE SO

If battle with enhanced Sarevok lasts more than 4 hours, please consult a physician.

 

[Oesophagus]

: "<charname>, I need you to remind my shattered soul what it means to love"
fixd

 

[Ion Prothon II]

It wasn't 'protagonist', but <charname>.

 

[Stabwound]

Update: Beamdog reps tell us that the team at Overhaul is adding "new, original content" to the original game to make up the Enhanced Edition. "This is the Enhanced Edition, it's not a repackage. We have the original source code and are doing a significant update," a rep said. He also confirmed that no platforms have been announced just yet.

Is that bad or good? You decide.

Using original source = good.

The new shit = bad.

That's my take.

It's not necessarily bad if they leave the Infinity Engine in a state that the existing mods still work with it, depending on what exactly they do to it. Aw fuck it, you know it's going to be terrible.

 

[Vicissitudes]

"New,Original Content"

 

[Xzar]

New stuff is good as long as its good. How good it is we shall see. But more roleplay options for evil players, in BG2 especially, should be nice.

 

[Oesophagus]

Trent Oster ‏ @TrentOster
Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition is going to have new content for the game you love, made by some of the original team members

 

[mkultra]

Update: Beamdog reps tell us that the team at Overhaul is adding "new, original content" to the original game to make up the Enhanced Edition. "This is the Enhanced Edition, it's not a repackage. We have the original source code and are doing a significant update," a rep said. He also confirmed that no platforms have been announced just yet.

Is that bad or good? You decide.

Using original source = good.

The new shit = bad.

Not really since they've said they've looked at mods, so that's probably "the new shit" or at least inspired by it.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Well at least they keep the IE, and not use some faggy flash toon graphics.

 

[Linkamus]

I am dreading them making the battles easier all of a sudden... I really hope they don't do that.

 

[Lagole Gon]

BROS, I'M HYPED!!! THIS IS GONNA BE MAJESTIC!!!

Yes, I'm naive.
But it feels so gooooood....

 

[Aeschylus]

I don't see adding a little content to BG1 as being such a terrible thing. Frankly, there were a lot of wilderness areas with barely anything in them but monsters that could stand to be fleshed out a bit. As long as they don't screw with the core game too much, and don't make it some sort of 4e crapfest, I see the attention being paid to classic RPGs as a positive thing.

The BG series is one of my favorites, so I hope they at least buy it a nice dress after they're done fucking it, so to speak.

 

[TripJack]

As long as they don't screw with the core game too much

fat fucking chance

 

[Quetzacoatl]

Just how much content do they intend to add? I don't want 2-3 fetch quests that give 30 gp.

 

[Stabwound]

It looks like they're going to release screens next week at this time. I guess they've been working on it for a while?

Not that overhauling the graphics of a game you have the complete source to is a time-intensive job, I guess.

 

[CappenVarra]

Well, WoTC did recently re-print choice 1st edition AD&D books after a long "only the latest D&D version is supported" pause... So there's even a chance they'll leave the AD&D (yes, 2nd ed, I know) mechanics in place and avoid "upgrading" them...

But yes, I estimate the chance of this being something that "doesn't screw the core game too much" instead of a cheap attempt to cash in on existing brand value blah blah at... ~1%. Let them reveal some actual info, and let the rage flow...

 

[Stabwound]

Wow, new details from Trent:

-There will be both BG1 & BG2 enhanced, including all expansions.
-It uses a tweaked version of the Infinity Engine used in ToB
-Therefore has all of the ToB classes and spells, etc. I wonder if he knows that this sort of unbalanced BG1?

I have to say that I'm cautiously optimistic now that I see he's doing the entire series. Please don't fucking ruin it. PLEASE.

 

[Oesophagus]

If all they're doing is updating the graphics and adding some new content then I guess it's not a bad way to go. It's just with all the hype and trolling they generated, you'd expect something more than a re-release.

 

[Takeda Kenshi]

Ok now that I've come down from the table and wiped the froth from my mouth, I'll play the extremely cautious wait-and-see approach.

 

[Linkamus]

-Therefore has all of the ToB classes and spells, etc. I wonder if he knows that this sort of unbalanced BG1?

THIS.. The game becomes almost trivial if you can use BG2 subclasses.

 

[deuxhero]

So the source code is preserved. Will it be released to the public (at least for buyers)?

 

[Monocause]

The classes issue is trivial - they can just make it an option for you to switch into a subclass from your primary class at BG2 defined entry level for that class (iirc it was lvl 7 for most of the classes).

I think I'll withhold interest until the devs release a feature list. If it's going to just be a graphical update then meh, the games didn't really need one, IE games age really nicely with the exception of the 640x480 locked ones.

 

[Icewater]

A modernized Baldur's Gate series, plus both Wasteland 2 and Double Fine's new adventure being successfully crowdsourced.. all in the same year? Crossing my fingers, but this might be a sign of good things to come.