Paid DLC planned for Baldur's Gate Enhanced
It's always fun watching Trent Oster's tweets if you are following the development of Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition. Now we know about DLC coming for the game.
Beamdog President Trent Oster has not been shy about tweeting details on Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition. He continues to give out tidbits to the faithful, including announcing plans for paid DLC for the updated isometric RPG.
Oster used Twitter over the weekend to tell fans: "We'll be doing free feature improvements and existing content improvements as we go, but we are also planning some paid DLC." He later clarified that the DLC will be new stories and characters (more than "furry earrings +3"), and not existing content.
He also told fans that offline mode is a must and Beamdog will use a launcher to push updates.
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It's always fun watching Trent Oster's tweets if you are following the development of Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition. Now we know about DLC coming for the game.-
I don't have any problem with this. In fact, it could be great. I wonder how they'll make new content work through BG2. Will a new character wind up in the starting dungeon in BG2 with us if we bought him in 1? Etc.
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indeed! no reason to be upset about this at all. if the full, complete game is what you're buying and any DLC is new content, then everyone wins!
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Not to mention how it will work in terms of narrative.
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it'd be pretty simple to add pure side content with completely optional areas and NPCs. The only weird part will be if you have new party NPCs and they lack the inter party banter of all the originals.
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I want Boo the Hamster mini adventures. Keep it coming. More content, paid or otherwise is fine by me.
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Boo the Hamster quicktime events!!!!111111
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preposterous! will not buy! they are MILKING us from the start with held-back content!!!
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No blood for oil bits!
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baldur's gate, more like baldurgate, the biggest scandal this week
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Back when the Infinity Engine games came out I was working at a Babbage's. We would have people coming in more Infinity Engine games.
THEM: "I played Baldur's Gate and I want another game like it."
ME: "Did you get the Baldur's Gate expansion pack?"
THEM: "Yup."
ME: "Did you get Baldur's Gate 2?"
THEM: "Yup, played it and beat it."
ME: "What about the exp-"
THEM: "Expansion pack? Yup, played it and beat it."
ME: "Well there's another game called Icewind Dale that-"
THEM: "Bought it, beat it, and the expansion. And the sequel."
ME: "Well, I hate to say it but that's pretty much it."
Since, at the time Infinity Engine games were pretty much the only ones like that (that I knew of anyway).
So it makes perfect sense to have DLC for this since all anyone wants is more, so why not?
And yes, it kills me that I had no idea that Planescape: Torment was an Infinity Engine game at the time. Would have been a perfect answer for people like the one above, but it was so poorly marketed and packaged that fucking nobody knew it was an Infinity Engine game. -
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If they removed content from the original BG and then repackaged it as day 1 DLC. I'd be really angry.
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if you check Trent Oster's Twitter feed I think he specifically mentioned wanting to get the voices behind Irenicus and Minsc if they have more content for them
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I really hope they eventually do new infinity engine games. That would be the best thing ever.
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He's tweeted that's the plan!
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Or, at least isometric RPGs.
I imagine they aren't overhauling the Infinity engine and adding all these new features for nothin'.
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