There will be several hours of new game play and new areas.
Which will consist of NPC-"quests", ie. let me fuck you NPC_NAME, since I just listened to your bitching and found you this amulet! And a completely detached, uninspired UNDERDARK combat gauntlet. Both of which will most likely use existing art assets and creatures since Trent's "artists" either do not exist or are completely incompetent. As the screenshots and the new GUI prove.
There will be professional voice acting that, based on what I've heard, far surpasses anything that a fan mod has put out.
OH WOW. MARK MEER. I'M HAVING AN ERECTION. And double wow for a commercial project to surpass fan projects. That's definitely high praise for Beamdog!
There will be new, original and professionally recorded music.
STOP.THE.PRESS! PROFESSIONALLY RECORDED MUSIC!?!?! So did they create a new bgmain.exe since the vanilla one doesn't have room for more music tracks or did they just overwrite existing songs? Or did they *gasp*
steal graciously borrow knowledge from modders again?
And further, because Beamdog has access to the source code, they can do things that modders have not been able to do.
Uh-huh. Like BGT-project which hacked the bgmain.exe so that you could listen to the entire bg1 and bg2 soundtracks at appropriate places, even though the .exe didn't originally support anything like that?
You Codexian's are a zany, mad-capped bunch. You masquerade as being RPG lovers, yet, when someone shows a bit of enthusiasm about an RPG development your first, and seemingly only inclination is to try and wipe the floor with them. What an ironic, bizarre existence you cats lead. Really more of a mob, than anything else.
Oh boo-hoo, my precious feelings have been hurt! Why are you so mean to me, Codex? I just wanted to sloppily fellate a D-tier game developer, just like real gaming journalists do, why must you attack me so?
NEWSFLASH: Codex has been plenty exited over many Kickstarter projects. There is no reason to accept this greedy cashgrabbing turd-bucket because there's nothing better available. And yes, Trent comes across as an arrogant asshole which doesn't help at all.
If you actually read, you know, the "words" in my posts here instead of throwing me into one of two highly generalized buckets of either the haters or the fanbois (probably asking for way too much on this, I realize) you'll see that I have not provided any over the top praise of BGEE. I have mentioned that the value proposition of this game is still TBD. I haven't even played the damn thing yet, so how would I know how good it will be. And yes, so the hell what -- I think Gord Marriott's voice acting for Dorn is a particular element of this project that is top rate. If you have a problem with that, you are welcome to eat my shorts.
No, you performed a brown-nosing interview worthy of DORITOS and MOUNTAIN DEW. You didn't ask WHY Beamdog feels the need for micro-transactions, you didn't ask WHY Beamdog didn't actually update the graphics, you didn't ask WHY Beamdog originally insisted on only using their own, shitty, digital download service or WHY they changed their mind - these would all have been good questions. Instead you just went with the typical FANBOI-praise, "ooh ooh, mister, everything is perfect, can I lick your balls a little more, maybe the glitter will remain?"
So for those of us who are don't care about voice acting and have played BG and its various mods numerous times over the years is there anything here worth getting excited over?
As said, the promised improvements to the multiplayer code are the only thing that could make this worth it. Of course, I don't actually trust Trent to deliver, so I'll wait for the retarded iHipster crowd to waste their money on this first and provide some feedback.
He isn't. Obviously not knowing what you're talking about has never stopped anyone here, but seriously, you're embarrassing yourself and suggesting that I'd let shills (paid or otherwise) conduct interviews on my site is personally offensive to me as well. Not that I care, just saying.
No idea who you are,
DUUUUUUUUDE. Critical failure on Codex Lore.
