Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2 Enhanced Edition

[Drai]

Minsc and Boo stand Ready!

Jump on your swords Evil! I won't be as Gentle!

[Vuitton]

Go for the eyes Boo, GO FOR THE EYES!! RrraaaAAGHGHH!!!

[Cyn]

Go for the eyes Boo, GO FOR THE EYES!! RrraaaAAGHGHH!!!

^ This.

[Siralin]

http://www.baldursgate.com/news/2012...on-for-ipad-3/

....mite b cool? I guess? Idk? Nice for those with an iPad I suppose.

[Gokulo]

Before too much rage ensues:

"Of course #bgee will be on PC. We're adding #iPad as a platform, we're 100% supporting the PC."

[Ikarys]

Just seeing the name Minsc makes me want to play BGII again lol.

You point - I punch!

[shukudai]

I like that the "go for the eyes!" thing is mirrored in Mass Effect.

Spoiler: show

When Chiktikka is summoned, Tali will occasionally cry, "Go for the optics, Chiktikka! Go for the optics!", a reference to Baldur's Gate II's Minsc, who shouts, "Go for the eyes, Boo! Go for the eyes!" to Boo, his miniature giant space hamster.

Aerie sometimes reacts to commands by saying, "Faster than Chiktikka Fastpaws!" while Tali may exclaim "Nobody's faster than Chiktikka vas Paus!"

[Vuitton]

Before too much rage ensues:

"Of course #bgee will be on PC. We're adding #iPad as a platform, we're 100% supporting the PC."

Thank you for posting this. I was about to rage.

[6souls]

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7116/7...4e2bcaf6f2.jpg

Announced recently was the enhanced versions of Baldur’s Gate 1 &2, appropriately titled Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition. While we knew that the first two games were to be available this summer for PC, we’ve now learned that they will be available on iPad at the same time with included multiplayer and a price point at $10 or below.

In an interview with Kotaku, Beamdog COO Cameron Tofer mentioned the project and pricing:

“Baldurs Gate is a pretty big game and we’re not cutting it down to size. There’s a boatload of content there, 80+ hours. But past ten dollars doesn’t make sense.”

To recap, enhanced editions of both Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn will be available this summer on PC and iPad for $10 or less.

http://www.insidegamingdaily.com/201...h-multiplayer/
http://kotaku.com/5896565/baldurs-ga...t-less-than-10

[Kaisha]

This is really just starting to look more and more like a mod for BG1/2, rather than a real 'Enhanced Edition'.

At any rate, since they have the source to play with, it'd still be viable for other platforms other than the PC. Hopes for Vita kinda dwindled since it'd take a bit more than effort than "$10" to bother rejigging the interface to work with a lower resolution display.

[Qalbert]

http://kotaku.com/5928997/baldurs-ga...g-september-18

If you've been getting the urge to replay Baldur's Gate, you might want to wait til this fall.

The classic role-playing game will see new life on September 18, when developer Beamdog releases Baldur's Gate: Extended Edition, an enhanced remake with new characters and a new adventure that the company says will take you six hours to play through.
PC and Mac versions of the game will run you $20 unless you pre-order, in which case they'll be $18. They'll come with three new playable sidekicks: half-Orc Blackguard Dorn (whose head is pictured above), half-elf Wild Mage Neera, and human monk Rasaad. Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition will also feature a new dungeon called The Black Pits, set within the Underdark, that tasks you with fighting your way through fifteen levels of arena-style battles.

The iPad version, which Beamdog is hoping to release around that same time in September, will cost $10. The interface for this version will be totally retooled so it's pleasant to play on your tablet. However, new characters Dorn and Neera will be sold separately as downloadable content for the iPad edition. Additional voice sets and portraits will also be DLC. The new Black Pits adventure is included with the game.

This version of Baldur's Gate will also feature the classes, kits, and races that were available in Baldur's Gate II. It squashes a whole bunch of the original version's bugs and also offers cross-platform multiplayer among all versions.


Here's how Beamdog describes The Black Pits:

"Rouse yourselves, you lice-laden layabouts. Stand and salute your new master, Baeloth the Entertainer!"

Across the realms, individuals of great power and prestige receive a scroll via magical means. Unfurling it, they discover that they have been selected as one of the very few to enjoy the finest forms of entertainment in all creation...

Come one, come all! Baeloth the Entertainer cordially invites you to the greatest spectacle the realms have to offer - mortal pitted against mortal in a desperate bid to survive! Thrilling combat, scintillating magic, and the grim spectre of death lurk above this, the greatest of all shows! All this and more can be enjoyed within... THE BLACK PITS!

Deep within the Underdark where few dare to tread, the mad drow Baeloth has used his extensive mastery of magic to force a duergar colony into creating an entertainment complex of his own design. He has invited guests from across the realms, from Maztica to Menzoberranzan, and they will readily attend - Baeloth is known to be an excellent showman.

—

The Black Pits is one of the enhancements that make up Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition that allows you to create a full party and battle through fifteen hellish battles in a desperate bid to escape. Difficult challenges, unique battles, and a bizarre cast of characters await you within the Underdark!

A stand-alone adventure set deep within the Underdark
Fifteen levels of arena-style combat challenges
Full control and customization of up to six party members
Over 6 hours of additional gameplay
The Black Pits are your new home... enjoy your stay while you can!


And here's how Beamdog describes new character Dorn:

"Do not annoy me with such simplistic notions of morality."

Born in the Spine of the World, Dorn fled to Luskan with his human mother when a rival tribe annihilated his father's savage people. In that northern city, Dorn's ruthless strength soon won him a deadly reputation and the attentions of a band of mercenaries whose wickedness exceeded even Dorn's. Imprisoned for the crimes of the entire group, Dorn made a fiendish bargain granting him even greater power and the promise of revenge.

A Blackguard of few words, Dorn is only too happy to ally himself with a child of Bhaal and cut a bloody swath across the Sword Coast with his black greatsword, as long as that path continues to lead him to the traitors he has sworn to destroy.

—

Dorn is a half-orc Blackguard whose otherworldly patron grants him terrible powers in the form of his black sword and unholy spells. Add him to your Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition and inflict evil to the last corpse.

Dorn adds the following Enhancments to Baldur's Gate:

The Blackguard Dorn II-Khan, a new NPC to join your party
Up to four hours of additional gameplay
The Blackguard kit to create your own champion of evil
Betrayed by his former companions, the half-orc Dorn Il-Khan lusts for revenge and glory in equal measure.

Beamdog's Cam Tofer has promised that an enhanced edition of Baldur's Gate II is also en route. The team has also expressed interest in remaking or revisiting other Infinity Engine-based isometric RPGs like Planescape: Torment in the near future. And one day, maybe, they'll start working on a Baldur's Gate III. Maybe.

[Ksandra]

and a new adventure that the company says will take you six hours to play through

give me more than that bitches!

Spoiler: show

gonna buy it anyway XD

[Correction]

I do like having me some evil melee characters. Korgan/Sarevok in BG2 were fucking beastly.

[Ayn]

AWWWWWWWWWWWWW YEAH.

Was happy to see news of this. I have BGII, but never really played it (got it RIGHT as I started FFXI, then grad school, so yeah).

[Kaisha]

$20 is a hard sell for PC given you can essentially buy all of the Infinity-engine games for that same price, and then apply user-made patches/mods to spruce them up.

Steam sale for me I guess if I ever feel the need to own a third copy of BG1, albeit one with some extra content.

[Vuitton]

This is out for pre-order at $17. Releases next month on pc/android/ios.

[alt]

Has anyone played it yet? How is it?

[Krandor]

Speaking from the PC PoV, it's more or less like playing original with some of the more well known mods installed (specifically widescreen patch and the one that ported BG1 to the BG2 engine, can't remember the name). You can zoom in and out (to enjoy those pixels in blurry glory), bug fixes, and there's the new content specific to EE, but all things considered it's not much different from a modded version of the original.

Bigger appeal on this is from being able to play on mobile platforms or for not technically inclined people who couldn't understand modding the original.

If you're just going to be playing on PC, I'd be more inclined to recommended grabbing the original games off GOG or something and rocking stuff like the BGT Mod (for those unaware, was a mod that combined BG1/2 plus all the expansions into one continuous game).

[alt]

What is different about the gameplay other than widescreen and BG2 engine that isnt obvious from the game descriptions? And is the new content huge? I pretty much played everything the original Baldur's Gate 1/2/TOB had to offer, and a bit of mods on 2. So if its basically the same game, Im not sure about getting it.

[Krandor]

It's maybe a few hours worth of quests, 3(I think?) new companions, access to the Blackguard class.

All the cutscenes are redone, and the new ones do look pretty nice



Really though, pretty much the same game. Most of the advertised improvements is stuff they took from the modding community. The only really "new" feature is being able to zoom in or out, but you're just zooming in on decade old sprites so they look like dogshit when you get up close, They're supposed to be beefing up the multiplayer with cross platform support, but that hasn't been added yet. Like I said before, unless you're gunning for the iOS or (eventually) Android version, better to just mod the shit out original versions of the game (which 1/ToSC/2/ToB all together costs the same price on GOG)