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Topic: Baldurs Gate 3? (Read 25550 times)
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Flinky
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All of the romances in BG2 piss me off. "Sorry bitch, I know you want to jump me, but I'm a little busy being the god of murder here. Could it wait until after I'm finished cleaving skulls?" Oh, and they're all elves. And one of them would have some explaining to do were she carded.
You mean Aerie? She's over a hundred years old, just rediculously naive. If you tote both Aerie and Jaheira around with you (they uh...don't get along) Aerie will snap at one point and yell at the bossy one for always calling her 'child', pointing out that with Jaheira only 60 years old, Aerie is over twice her age. Quite frankly, that just makes her romance a little creepier for me. I'll second the Jaheira romance being handled better than every subsequent Bioware romance. I do like turning Viconia Good though, just as I like turning Anomen Evil (fuck that guy). |
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koro
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Two ogre berserkers, three regular ogres, three half-ogres, and an ogrillon. On a cramped random encounter map. Thanks for that encounter, BGT.
In case anyone was wondering, an Ogre Berserker can two-shot a level 4 Minsc.
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Lucas
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PC Release date and pricing announced (18th September, $19.99 or 17.99 if you pre-purchase) , along with more details on the new characters, explorable areas, interface enhancements etc. : http://www.baldursgate.com/ |
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Amaron
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I'll buy it but it looks pretty weak sauce in some ways. If the game truly NEEDED one graphical update it was to put in higher res character graphics and add some sort of zoom option. Everything is just a bit too small at modern resolutions.
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Ingmar
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Yeah, great to see that the one thing that needed updating, they lost the files for.  |
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Amaron
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Yeah, great to see that the one thing that needed updating, they lost the files for. I spent a lot of time modding that game. There aren't that many sprites to replace. This isn't some sort of GoG update to get the game working in Win7 either. They can spend some fucking money on brand new HD sprites. |
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brellium
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It's actually in BG2 as well, deep under the city where you do the Unseeing Eye quest, its item listing replacing a stock +2 Warhammer.
To be fair, the guy you get it from, Bassilus, is supposed to be a huge challenge for a BG1 party with SCS installed (which Item Revisions is balanced around): he's a level 10 Cleric who even comes with two Flamestrikes, three casts of Hold Person, two casts of Animate Dead, and a cast of Draw Upon Holy Might memorized, among a few others. Even with SCS installed, pre-buffing enabled, and even fucking up the dialogue to kill off most of his skeletal allies, he still went down like a ton of bricks with my party almost entirely at level 2 (Imoen had dinged 3 from the Hobgoblin group just before), never getting off more than a single Sancutary spell when he got down to 1/3 HP that he promptly lost when he started to cast Dominate on my Berserker PC, who was raged and thus immune anyway.
In all honesty he should've wrecked my shit, but I guess I got lucky. He did manage to nearly kill Charname and did manage to take out Eldoth with the hammer proc, but that was less "level 10 Cleric stuff" and more "being hit by a +2 warhammer with a 4d4 AoE damage proc when you have 16 health".
To be fair, we did the same thing in a pnp campaign. Poor flying cleric got hit with a light spell aimed at eyes by a first level cleric and failed saving throw (I always loved light spells as a cleric in earlier dnd versions) |
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Lucas
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Cyrrex
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I think I might wait for the Ipad version. Not because gaming on the Ipad is particularly good, but it seems like this game might be. If they would only, you know, actually release it.
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Bunk
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If you are curious, the Override folder needs to go in the oddly named subfolder (bunch of numbers) in the directory under program files. They hadn't documented that anywhere as of last night.
Started playing a bit last night - forgot that there was no such thing as negative hit points in 2nd. Got one shot by a freaking hobgoblin on the side of the road...
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Lucas
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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JWIV
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To be a broken record, but this needs to come out on GoG and/or Steam before I grab it on the PC.
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DraconianOne
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To be a broken record, but this needs to come out on GoG and/or Steam before I grab it on the PC.
Yes. (Also, it needs to be BG2 for me - so next year with luck.)  |
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Rendakor
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Are there any plans for an Android release? I'm one of the few who's never played BG (I wasn't a PC gamer at the time) so I'd like to give it a shot, either on a tablet or once it hits Steam.
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Amaron
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Gah I've too much stuff to play. How is the blur/quality of the zooming? That's pretty much the #1 feature for me. I love playing BG at high res but things end up too small.
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NowhereMan
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Gah I've too much stuff to play. How is the blur/quality of the zooming? That's pretty much the #1 feature for me. I love playing BG at high res but things end up too small.
Zooming feature does not yet meet some user's expectations due to pixel and blur. Sounds like it may need some work. |
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Lucas
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Yes, it's blurred, but honestly the fact that the game now is also conceived for higher resolutions makes everything easier on the eyes. That's why, at least for me, zooming is a useless feature (I have a 24" monitor, 1920x1200).
I've made it only as far as when you meet Montaron and Xzar: there are glitches here and there regarding sound and interface, but the GUI is quite nice on the eyes while, on the other hand, the font shows that it doesn't "belong" to the original game. The "parchment-like" tooltips are blurred. The description of the class kits are quite nice and well explained, and the format of the manuals you can find in the game directory are good.
The new "comic-book" animated intro is horrendous, while I find the drawings of the various chapter/location descriptions very gorgeous. Looking forward to the new NPCs/locations and the Black Pits.
Regarding the gameplay: I've only read here and there about it, but it seems they toned down the random monster packs you can find while exploring (remember those packs of 6 gibberlings and the like? Well, personally I hated those random and repetitive fights). XP cap, from what I read, is the same of Tales of the Sword Coast (which, just to remind you, is already included in the EE)
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Amaron
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I just grabbed it. You're right the zooming isn't important with this setup. They've basically killed any problems I had with high res. All the text is much easier to read and the rest of the interface works. In terms of graphics this is just flat out far more playable than Tutu+Widescreen at 1080p.
I'm not seeing any blur at all actually. If I zoom in I can see some but there's no need. I guess if you're stuck on a 16xx*10xx then it might look a bit meh. Definitely looking forward to BG2 and Planescape in this engine.
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Zetor
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Interesting. I wonder if this'll revitalize the BG1/2 modding community as well?
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koro
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The zoom feature was mostly designed for the (yet again delayed) iPad version, so you can touch-click shit in a more precise fashion. It's largely superfluous in the PC version, but it's there if you want it.
I'm personally waiting on a few more of my must-use mods to finish getting conversions before nabbing BGEE.
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koro
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Well at the rate this is going, the iPad version of BGEE (you know, most of the reason this exists in the first place) won't be seeing the light of day until January at the earliest; the game got rejected by Apple due to bugs again today.
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Lucas
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Lucas
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CaptainNapkin
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Looks like the Enhanced Edition is out for iPad now. Has anyone tried this yet? $9.99, decent reviews...
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Tannhauser
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I don't see it for Google Play. Maybe soon.
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KallDrexx
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Doesn't work on the iPad 1 apparently :(
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koro
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They're working on iPad 1 compatibility they say.
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Teleku
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People who buy first gen apple products deserve to suffer.  This game seems like it would be rather hard to play on a tablet. I'll just play the PC version. When it comes out on steam. |
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jth
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I tried it out on iPad (3rd gen) yesterday. I wasn't expecting much, but still it was a bit of a disappointment. Three main issues:
- With no mouse cursor, using stairs/doors is trial and error, especially if they are obscured by view. Sometimes even movement in narrow hallways is a pain.
- Scrolling the view often causes a move command, no matter how carefully you try to keep your finger pressed on the glass
- Picking out the tiny dialogue lines with your finger can be hard
Also, leaving things like "Keyboard scroll speed" and "Mouse scroll speed" in Options makes it look more like a hack than a professional port.
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CaptainNapkin
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Sounds like I made the right decision running with Infinity Blade 2 instead of this then, thanks for the info. Although the overall ratings are good I do see a lot of reviews on the app store mentioning those same things, especially the door/stair issue. Oddly, most folks mention this and still give it a 5 rating. Nostalgic fans I suppose.
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cironian
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It wouldn't really be Baldurs Gate if the initial release wasn't full of bugs.
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Lucas
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« Last Edit: January 16, 2013, 01:15:26 PM by Lucas »
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