Baldur's Gate Beamdog's Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 Enhanced Editions

[amar0k]

Ok. Now i know why i tried to stay away from too much information, i think i did not want to loose the hope that there could evolve something fantastical from this shit.

 

[waywardOne]

Ignorance is bliss. You can check out the Steam reviews, too, if you can discern the obvious shills.

 

[Stabwound]

If I play Baldur's Gate again, it will be with the original BG1 and 2 with BGTrilogy mods. I wouldn't even pirate this shit. BGTrilogy is better than this Enhanced edition as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Sergiu64]

I bought it cause my BG1 CDs got scratched enough not to install anymore. It's ok, basically BG1 with ability to zoom out and faster loading times. Only other thing different I've noticed is that they add the stats automatically for you on char creation and display the total on the bottom. Perfect for my munchkin self. I guess they included some kind of dungeon crawl area for a self made party too, but I encountered bugs in party creation and decided not to dive into that shit.

 

[mindx2]

I bought it cause my BG1 CDs got scratched enough not to install anymore. It's ok, basically BG1 with ability to zoom out and faster loading times. Only other thing different I've noticed is that they add the stats automatically for you on char creation and display the total on the bottom. Perfect for my munchkin self. I guess they included some kind of dungeon crawl area for a self made party too, but I encountered bugs in party creation and decided not to dive into that shit.

GOG.com maybe a better alternative?

 

[aVENGER]

How do you, or anyone else for that matter, know that Beamdog has hired modders? Did they put up a press release that I've missed or something?

I'd look for it. But I remember one or two modders actually saying as much in the BG:EE forums.

It's true.

Some of us were recently hired by Beamdog. There was a small announcement on the BGEE forum.

 

[waywardOne]

Nice of them to officially get up to speed with the modders. A couple are unknown; Euros perhaps? Also, DW doing portraits? I thought that was his wife's gig. I'll assume SCS will be available long before any subjective artistic contributions.

It's still not an improvement over anything. Crunch mods are good (I personally love aTweaks), but all that terrible fanfic-level NPC crap like Kaeloree's is a serious incentive to stay away.

 

[aVENGER]

It's still not an improvement over anything. Crunch mods are good (I personally love aTweaks), but all that terrible fanfic-level NPC crap like Kaeloree's is a serious incentive to stay away.

I can't really talk about my work due to the NDA, but I'm allowed to say this much.

We are not actually doing any writing, save for a stray item description or something similarly minor. And even that needs to be thoroughly reviewed and approved before going in. Beamdog has dedicated writers who handle all the dialogue.

 

[Jaesun]

Do you work for them now aVENGER?

 

[aVENGER]

Do you work for them now aVENGER?

As a contractor, yes.

 

[Diablo169]

One thing that's surprised me about BGEE is that they haven't put out a ton of shit dlc to milk things. I was expecting item packs, portrait packs and all sorts. Nothing.

 

[Jaesun]

Do you work for them now aVENGER?

As a contractor, yes.

Ahh well congrats then!

 

[aVENGER]

Ahh well congrats then!

Thanks!

For the record, this is not a permanent position. I was hired to work on Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition and on an (as of yet) undisclosed project for a specific amount of time.

 

[Diablo169]

Hmm so DLC incoming for BGEE and they're working on another game that required them hiring IE modders. BG2EE has already been mentioned so we're talking about an enhanced edition of another Infinity engine game then.

 

[Diablo169]

Probably Icewind Dale? Although given the recent publicity of Torment it would make sense from a commercial point of view to try and re-release that.

 

[Xavier0889]

I think it was Oster himself who said he wanted to "enhance" Icewind Dale. Inb4 "enhancements" = romance subplots

 

[Kirtai]

Probably Icewind Dale? Although given the recent publicity of Torment it would make sense from a commercial point of view to try and re-release that.

Wouldn't they need the Torment trademark? That could be problematical for a PS:T EE

 

[Jaesun]

Why would they need the Trademark to do a EE for Torment?

WotC/HASBRO own it.

 

[Kirtai]

I was just wondering about the legalities of WotC et al releasing a new version of Planescape: Torment when inXile has a trademark on the name Torment for video games.

Edit: Emphasis on the new.

 

[Jaesun]

inXile does not own the video game Planescape: Torment™ WotC/HASBRO does..

inXile owns the trademark to a video game named Torment™.

 

[Kirtai]

Interesting, according to a quick search it looks like "Planescape: Torment" lapsed on June 14th, 2001 but a new application was made by WotC on January 14th, 2013. I wonder why.

I do still wonder about conflicts though, big company lawyers being what they are. (Do they both have rounded corners?)

 

[Delterius]

Interesting, according to a quick search it looks like "Planescape: Torment" lapsed on June 14th, 2001 but a new application was made by WotC on January 14th, 2013. I wonder why.

I do still wonder about conflicts though, big company lawyers being what they are. (Do they both have rounded corners?)

Further reading: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...ape-setting-is-available-for-licensing.80466/

 

[Jaesun]

Interesting, according to a quick search it looks like "Planescape: Torment" lapsed on June 14th, 2001 but a new application was made by WotC on January 14th, 2013. I wonder why.

Because the Atari and WotC lawsuit was settled over the D&D rights.

 

[Kirtai]

Further reading: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...ape-setting-is-available-for-licensing.80466/

Aha, I thought that was just about the "Planescape" trademark which is of course, separate from the "Planescape: Torment" one.

 

[Delterius]

Oh, I misread the month on your post. I thought the refiling of WoTC's was more recent than the Tides Kickstarter and, therefore, it sounded like a reaction to InXile's initiative.