Baldur's Gate Enhanced's new character, mission, and area revealed
Beamdog promised a new character for the Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition, and we have a first look at who it is. Also: details on the all-new stand-alone adventure, The Black Pits.
Rasaad's game portrait
An artist's sketch of the new Cloud Peaks area
Welcome to The Black Pits, hosted by Baeloth the Entertainer
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Beamdog promised a new character for the Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition, and we have a first look at who it is. Also: details on the all-new stand-alone adventure, The Black Pits.-
Here it is, as promised ...
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YEEEEEEEEEEAH!
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I'm stoked. Three new characters. 10 moire hours of gameplay. I'm in ...
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Me too, I don't know why more shackers aren't losing their shit over this. It sounds pretty awesome
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10 more hrs, damn! That brings the total gameplay up to 510 hrs!!!
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BG1 isn't really that long though. BG2 is huge, as is ToB, but the first game was a pretty normal length.
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so awesome
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This sounds fucking awesome
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Not yet, they say before the end of summer, and summer ends on Sept. 21
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Well hell. I'll add that to the story. They would tell me for the story ...
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Do we have any info about multiplayer? I'm assuming it has to be revamped at least a little, as old school BG was a little clunky.
If they do modernize it up a bit, that will be awesome. Multiplayer in these games is so good.-
Enhancements: http://www.baldursgate.com/enhancements.en.html
It will have matchmaking!
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I really can't wait to replay this. One of my favorite games of all time!
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$20 price point, but preorders get $2 off at their site!
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I want this so bad.
But, just looking at the screenshots, the environments kind of look weird. Like...blurry-like.-
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http://www.baldursgate.com/
Browse through Characters and Adventures.-
Here's one that looks particularly blurry, like it has low-quality textures:
http://www.baldursgate.com/images/rasaad/screenshot04.jpg-
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looks like what it did back then, i didn't see that they are adding any graphical enhancements except widescreen so I don't know what you guys were expecting.
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I'm actually playing the original right now with mods and stuff, and the environments are actually way sharper than these screenshots.
It might be JPEG compression or something, but the environments look off.-
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yeah it'll be interesting to see what they do with BG2. It was 6 CDs plus the expansion right? A 3gb+ game is a pretty huge chunk of a 16gb device (with less than that actually usable with the OS on there)
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To me it looks just like the original game...maybe the original game looked worse than I remember? Not that I am disappointed but I thought this was giving it a graphical overhaul.
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As long as it doesn't crash all the time (as the game did the last time I tried playing it on Win7) I'm in.
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From what I gather not all the original source was available to them so they had to up-res some of it. New stuff should be rendered at the new higher resolutions.
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Now give Planescape Torment the same treatment!!
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Pre-ordered.
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Looks like BG to me.
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No, it really does. You realize they have a lot of the same artists working on it right?
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No one is talking about the style of the art.
http://www.baldursgate.com/images/neera/screenshot04.jpg
^ that is messy as hell.-
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It looks like it's floating because it has no shadow as many items in BG did not as well. Also, are you looking at new terrain or old terrain that was up-ressed?
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If all you are looking at is graphics then yes, but you are missing all the other features:
http://www.baldursgate.com/enhancements.en.html-
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And my whole point is that it looks like BG and that BG just hasn't aged all that well and that BG was never about graphics.
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That's on the ground, dead persons loot
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Seriously? You are that much of an eye candy whore? This is a 13 year old game. What did you expect? For the money, the extra content and the ability to play cross platform co-op is awesome.
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Yeah, I know it's a 13 year old game because I pre-ordered and played this shit out it's original incarnation. Sadly, I threw away the spiral bound manual, cloth map, and character cards.
I expected this to look as good or better than the original. The characters look oddly removed from their environments, and on the whole I prefer the original aesthetic. If this version does not look better to me than the version I already purchased, then yes... I am FOR SERIOUSLY THAT MUCH OF AN EYE CANDY WHORE.-
Your loss and I think you are mistaken.
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Characters look off :-(
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It's gonna be 20 on the iPad as well? That would be the most I've ever spent on my iPad.
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$10. But dlc will cost $3 for each character so if you want it all, roughly the same. All dlc is included in the pc price.
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I am so excited. Somehow I will find the time.
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The dlc character stuff is free on pc and mac but $3 for each character on tablets, per Trent osters Twitter. However, the game itself is only $10 for iOS.
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TAKE MY MONEY!
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