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Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance series released on PC

Baron Dupek

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review keys to any media outlet or influencer.
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If they're worth anything (people, not keys) then they should pay for them from their own pockets.
 
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$30 for a port of a 20 year old game. :hmmm:

Imagine if this were 2001 and someone was charging $30 for a port of Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
 
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Roguey said:
$30 for a port of a 20 year old game. :hmmm:

Imagine if this were 2001 and someone was charging $30 for a port of Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
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Maybe Sir-Tech should have done that. They wouldn't have had to put advertisements in Wizardry 8.
 
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I remember when this game was new. I had no idea what it was about, but since Baldur’s Gate was a familiar name, I urged my friend to buy it (in thinking it could be something similiar… yeah, it wasn’t).

It was semi fun in co-op (leaving the pal surrounded by enemies and rushing to the loot chests, and such) after a few beers. But I can’t really figure out why anyone would buy it now, let alone on PC.

Everything has an audience, I suppose.
 
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Roguey said:
$30 for a port of a 20 year old game. :hmmm:

Imagine if this were 2001 and someone was charging $30 for a port of Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
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Um, actually it was ported to Square Enix, beginning the Final Fantasy series. Sold for $50 each. And it's neutered Wizardry - it's still blob-combat displayed differently... but it didn't bring over the actual dungeon-crawling. The JRPG's "version" of "dungeon crawling" was grinding random encounters on an open world map.
And yet it sold for more than a hypothetical $30 port of Wizardry 1 lol.

I'd say buy this on sale. For sure. TBH they might be setting that price up and then putting in on sale over the holidays.

It's worth playing and IMO $15 is okay.. But if you've already played it before, then, forget about it lol.

THAT BEING SAID - Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance was a COUCH CO-OP game. I don't even think I played it solo back in the day. Played with roommate. And that's just a huge difference in... atmosphere... compared to playing multiplayer online. (Couch Co-op = one or both of you are trolls and block doorways all the time... But then you can punch your friend so it's even) I actually played as far back as X-Men Legends with him.
 
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YldrE said:
I played this a little today. For its crazy price, it's about as lazy as a port can be without straight-up breaking the game
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Check https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Baldur's_Gate:_Dark_Alliance in a few weeks, maybe people will figure out how to get around shit.

But perhaps it really is just a bad port.. because they ported it not just to the PC but also the PS4/5, Xbox One, etc. And it was on the PS2 & Xbox & Gamecube back then. Note, it was getting :4/5:reviews back in 2001 - including those original Xbox/Gamecube ports.

Right now, it looks like even the CONSOLE ports are getting like :3/5: . Part of the complaints are that it's boring single-player.. but well, that's what happens when you port a couch co-op game. Besides that, it seems like BG:DA was a shitty port starting from old to new gen consoles lol.

BUT ALSO SOME HISTORY
  • BGDA and BGDA2 are different in one aspect:
    • Snowblind developed BGDA. Black Isle developed BGDA2.
  • Since Snowblind was not involved in BGDA2, they sued Interplay for using the BGDA engine. (At the same time, Interplay also had Vivendi problems)
    • Interplay's recourse to all the problems? Closing Black Isle in 2003.
  • The following games/projects were canceled because of Black Isle closing:
    • BG3 - Dark Hound,
    • BG: Dark Alliance 3
    • Fallout 3.
  • The best irony: Slam Dunk Feargus managed to get CD Projekt to port BG:DA to the PC back in 2003. Obviously that was canceled.
This is how how the old crew fell apart. Because of the court.
 
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I remember buying this game second hand on Xbox in a video games store when I was a teen. They only displayed the empty boxes on the shelves and put the disc in it at checkout, to prevent theft. The retadred store person put a PS2 copy in the box at checkout. Thanksfully teen-me was already pretty smart and had the insight to open the box while waiting for the bus, so I could go back to the store get the correct copy and avoid a monumental butthurt once home. The disc had some damages causing the game to sometimes crash in certain areas.

Thanks dematerialized games for making this store go out of business.
 
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Was that really a big success to fund sequel?

Tried first game and control was weird. I mean there's Bard's Tale 2004 who already got better control scheme iirc...
 
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It's weird, because I remember the two Dark Alliance being mostly dismissed as some poor man's Diablos and worthless console trash back in the days. but I learned just recently that people on Playstation actually fucking loved this shit and it even got good critical reception at the time.

EDIT - Turns out I already talked about this weird disconnect between my memory of it and its current reputation in the first page of this very thread.
Age is failing me, I'm afraid.
 
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Tuco Benedicto Pacifico said:
It's weird, because I remember the two Dark Alliance being mostly dismissed as some poor man's Diablos and worthless console trash back in the days. but I learned just recently that people on Playstation actually fucking loved this shit and it even got good critical reception at the time.

EDIT - Turns out I already talked about this weird disconnect between my memory of it and its current reputation in the first page of this very thread.
Age is failing me, I'm afraid.
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Even "3/5 - it's OK" games from the 6th generation are great compared to what is released now. Games that were barely 4/5 are amazing.
 
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