An article from Friday on GameSpy has quotes from Cameron Tofer of Beamdog's studio Overhaul Games about their
recently announced plans for Enhanced Editions of
Baldur's Gate and
Baldur's Gate II (thanks
PC Gamer). In addition to discussion of their plans to update as well as enhance the original RPGs, he explains their long-term goal is indeed to make Baldur's Gate III, though this is just in the talking stage for now, though some of the talk includes the prospects of a Kickstarter campaign to get this going:
"Baldur's Gate 3 has been our long term goal. We have a lot of things to put in place before such a project can be launched. So currently there is no such project but that's the one we want to do. Our thoughts have been that Enhanced Edition for BG 1 and 2 just make sense before there's any Baldur's Gate 3."
"We're totally thinking Kickstarter. It just makes so much sense and solves so many problems. I think what Brian [Fargo] is doing with Wasteland is very interesting."
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Dev wrote on Mar 19, 2012, 16:35:
jdreyer wrote on Mar 19, 2012, 16:08:
Not sure why they'd need Kickstarter at all. Just use the profits from the enh'd version of BG and BGII to fund BGIII. Because its a money/market share grab?
RollinThundr wrote on Mar 19, 2012, 15:49:
Interplay has nothing to do with it. Infograms/Atari currently holds the interactive license for D&D. Interplay made BG1 and BG2, so yeah, they have something to do with it. And just because atari has it, doesn't preclude the existence of an old contract, say for a BG trilogy, that wizards didn't think about putting expiration date on it way back when.
Interplay is barely a company at this point to begin with. I highly doubt they have open ended rights to the Baldur's gate name. Perhaps to the two titles they published but if there were to be a BG3 I would have to believe BeamDog would need permission from the current license holder and that sure as shit isn't Interplay. |
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