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Ships Ahoy - Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

[Nov 28, 2012, 9:36 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Baldur's Gate Website announces that Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is now available for Windows PCs through the Beamdog Service. The game was to be released for all platforms today, but Trent Oster tweets that the iOS build is not approved, Android is trailing iOS, and the Mac OSX version is also delayed (thanks Eurogamer/Modojo). Here's word:

Overhaul Games is pleased to announce that Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition of PC has been released through Beamdog, and can be purchased here.

If you've already purchased Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, you can either download it through the Beamdog client, which can be found here, or through the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition Installer which can be downloaded here.

Please note that due to extreme server load it may take some time to get your game, but we are working around the clock to alleviate the situation.

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Re: Ships Ahoy - Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

Nov 29, 2012, 22:09

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WaltC wrote on Nov 29, 2012, 15:28: If this is the way in which they have approached the entire project then I think they are going to have some fairly serious problems to weed through. I think they'd have done much better to attempt a "Remastered" version of the original instead of an "Enhanced" version in which a lot of editing is obvious. It'll be interesting to read some reviews. "Remastered" wouldn't get as many sales. And they did enhance it... they redid the UI to work on smartphones. They added a bunch of fixes and stuff from previous community work. The added characters are I think original work. Orogogus wrote on Nov 29, 2012, 17:46: I didn't miss it, but it doesn't look worse to me. It's like a Flash animation. Choppy, yes, but the original is early era 3D, which aged badly. I really don't like looking at it, at all. Everything about it is an unattractive product of its time. Even if the new one uses that stop-start animation, at least it's hand drawn. I can hand draw in paint too.

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Comment [quote="Dev"Nov 29, 2012, 22:09][quote="WaltC"Nov 29, 2012, 15:28]If this is the way in which they have approached the entire project then I think they are going to have some fairly serious problems to weed through. I think they'd have done much better to attempt a "Remastered" version of the original instead of an "Enhanced" version in which a lot of editing is obvious. It'll be interesting to read some reviews.[/quote] "Remastered" wouldn't get as many sales. And they did enhance it... they redid the UI to work on smartphones. They added a bunch of fixes and stuff from previous community work. The added characters are I think original work. [quote="Orogogus"Nov 29, 2012, 17:46]I didn't miss it, but it doesn't look worse to me. It's like a Flash animation. Choppy, yes, but the original is early era 3D, which aged badly. I really don't like looking at it, at all. Everything about it is an unattractive product of its time. Even if the new one uses that stop-start animation, at least it's hand drawn. [/quote] I can hand draw in paint too. [/quote]

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