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Dark Wizard
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 Posted - 11 Sep 2015 : 03:09:21
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The Baldur's Gate CRPG series using the Infinity Engine is getting an expansion made by Beamdog Games, the company behind the recent revamp and new ports of these decade old classics.
The new game is Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear. Venture Beat has an article with more details. http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/10/baldur-gates-future-goes-back-into-dungeons-dragons-past/
It will use the Infinity Engine, right down to the 2E rules, and even the setting is "more than 100 years behind the current Forgotten Realms timeline". There will be some new monsters, again 2E versions when possible with only some changes to be more consistent with recent lore (only if insisted by WotC). Some monsters will be 2E incarnations of ones introduced in later editions.
It will feature a visit to Boareskyr Bridge, complete with its waters blackened downstream after the site of Bhaal's death. A major adventure location will of course be the tunnels beneath Dragonspear Castle.
It will also restrain itself from mentions of later edition lore, like foreshadowing the return of Netheril, the Spellplague, or the Death of Mystra. The Beamdog team seems very keen to keep the 2nd edition feel of the Baldurs Gate games. Almost as if this was a game made just a couple of months after the original BG2 & ToB.
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Eltheron
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Posted - 11 Sep 2015 : 03:17:26
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I have very high hopes for this. All of their work so far, and their recent Q&As, look awesome. They developed the current "Enhanced Editions" for BG1, BG2, and Icewind Dale 1, and they've all been really excellent IMO.
It will fit between BG1 and BG2, showing us the "middle" of the story.
Here's a Q&A from July 2015:
Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear - Live Q&A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqeX7eMLZAc
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"The very best possible post-fourteenth-century Realms lets down those who love the specific, detailed social, political and magical situation, with its thousands of characters, developed over forty years, and want to learn more about it; and those who'd be open to a new one with equal depth, which there just isn't time to re-produce; and those repelled, some past the point of no return, by the bad-taste-and-plausibility gap of things done to the world when its guardianship was less careful."
--Faraer |
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Thieran
Learned Scribe
Germany
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Posted - 11 Sep 2015 : 10:08:45
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| I echo your hopes, Eltheron. I also hope that it will somehow, even if not 'officially', be possible to import a save game/character from the original BG 1 - I finished that game relatively recently and do not intend to play through its Enhanced version again (even though I will have to buy it to play Siege of Dragonspear, but that's fine with me). |
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Caladan Brood
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Eltheron
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Posted - 11 Sep 2015 : 20:56:03
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Originally posted by Thieran
I echo your hopes, Eltheron. I also hope that it will somehow, even if not 'officially', be possible to import a save game/character from the original BG 1 - I finished that game relatively recently and do not intend to play through its Enhanced version again (even though I will have to buy it to play Siege of Dragonspear, but that's fine with me).
This is a bit complicated, but since Siege of Dragonspear is an expansion rather than a standalone game, you'll need to buy BG:EE. Or, if you buy the GoG version of Siege of Dragonspear, you'll need the GoG version of BG.
Apparently this has a lot to do with all of the bug fixes, the new class (Shaman), and other programming updates.
So if you have a really old save game from when you were playing the original on the discs, you should be able to import it into BG:EE or the new GoG version - but at that point, the save game is altered to the new format (you can't finish Siege of Dragonspear and then take that save game into an old old version of BG2).
Does that make sense?
You'll also be able to buy BG:EE, and the expansion for Siege of Dragonspear, and then just play Siege of Dragonspear with a pre-made party.
Here's the Beamdog site's big list of Q&As and what's known:
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/40963/baldurs-gate-siege-of-dragonspear-previously-known-as-the-adventure-y-project
July 28th's post (halfway down, a long way), talks about "Will we need BGEE to play SoD?" and some other things.
Hope this helps!
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"The very best possible post-fourteenth-century Realms lets down those who love the specific, detailed social, political and magical situation, with its thousands of characters, developed over forty years, and want to learn more about it; and those who'd be open to a new one with equal depth, which there just isn't time to re-produce; and those repelled, some past the point of no return, by the bad-taste-and-plausibility gap of things done to the world when its guardianship was less careful."
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Thieran
Learned Scribe
Germany
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Posted - 11 Sep 2015 : 22:29:29
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| Thanks a lot! I knew that I will have to buy BGEE to run SoD (hence what I wrote in the parentheses) but not the details and the pages you linked to. I hope GOG will offer a bundle discount... |
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