Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition OS X Plans & Cross-Platform Gaming

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The Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition Website announces Overhaul Games' upcoming Baldur’s Gate overhauls will be coming to OS X this summer (thanks The Patches Scrolls). They say the Mac version will "include a variety of Mac OS X specific features, including widescreen and iCloud support." No, we didn't know widescreen support was an OS X specific feature either. Technically a PC edition of the game has not been announced, but it is mentioned in this tweet from Trent Oster revealing they plan to support cross-platform multiplayer play:

Yes, it will be compatible multi-player cross-platform. We had a Mac, iPad and PC joined into a game together.

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Re: Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition OS X Plans & Cross-Platform Gaming

Mar 30, 2012, 11:59

eRe4s3r

Hell yeah, full voicing of all the lines.. that'd be awesome.. but is a pipe-dream No way they got the munnies for that.

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Re: Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition OS X Plans & Cross-Platform Gaming

Mar 30, 2012, 11:52

Vio

I want high rez textures, enhanced animations/effects, and most important of all I want them to dig up the people and voice act all the text. Nothing less than this would be considered enhanced since you can get all the other stuff with the mods available for the standard game.

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Re: Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition OS X Plans & Cross-Platform Gaming

Mar 30, 2012, 11:50

eRe4s3r

Textures? You mean sprites and pre-rendered maps! Sure, they are textures, but i would bet actual money that this "enhancement" does not include recreating all the art assets. Though that is exactly what would be needed to actually have the game not become super-pint sized at 1920x1200 .. Also who the heck uses 1920x1080p on PC ?

Re: Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition OS X Plans & Cross-Platform Gaming

Mar 30, 2012, 11:46

Tumbler

I never played this back in the day but I hope this will be an HD update to the older game, that would be fun to play it and see what all the fuss was about.




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Re: Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition OS X Plans & Cross-Platform Gaming

Mar 30, 2012, 11:45

panbient

I remember multiplayer support in the original back when I bought it in late 1998. I remember thinking why did they bother with MP in a heavily story based game centered around 1 particular character. Now I wonder why the biggest announcement of this 'enhanced' edition so far is multiplayer as opposed to anything that would be indicative of an actual improvement over the quality of product any of us can get with just a few mods? Techie714 is spot on. Unless they announce that they've managed to rewrite the Infinity Engine so that it properly supports higher resolutions as opposed to simply displaying a wider area nothing of what is being announced is actually 'new'. It might not be packed on the discs (whether original, GOG, or the recent D&D Master's Collection) but the mods and instructions aren't that hard to find or apply. Drayth wrote on Mar 30, 2012, 11:31: The enhanced edition has extra content. Namely an extra character who can join the party and an "extra adventure". Read that from a hands-on preview somewhere (though the new content wasn't implemented yet). There was a lot of content either cut or unfinished in the original games that was hidden from regular players that the community has since implemented in various mods. The longer this goes the more it reeks of a cash grab aimed at milking the name and NOTHING else.

Re: Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition OS X Plans & Cross-Platform Gaming

Mar 30, 2012, 11:38

Techie714 ©

necrosis wrote on Mar 30, 2012, 11:17:
Techie714 © wrote on Mar 30, 2012, 11:10:
In order for me to buy this again It will need to have the following.

High resolution textures

Full widescreen support to at least 1920x~~1080~~1200

Upgraded sound

New graphical enhancements

Yep I would buy it, if it had those features. I dont think that is asking to much from a "Enhanced Edition".
Corrected.




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Re: Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition OS X Plans & Cross-Platform Gaming

Mar 30, 2012, 11:31

Drayth

The enhanced edition has extra content. Namely an extra character who can join the party and an "extra adventure". Read that from a hands-on preview somewhere (though the new content wasn't implemented yet).

Re: Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition OS X Plans & Cross-Platform Gaming

Mar 30, 2012, 11:25

Darks

necrosis wrote on Mar 30, 2012, 11:17: Techie714 © wrote on Mar 30, 2012, 11:10: In order for me to buy this again It will need to have the following. High resolution textures Full widescreen support to at least 1920x~~1080~~1200 Upgraded sound New graphical enhancements Yep I would buy it, if it had those features. I dont think that is asking to much from a "Enhanced Edition". Corrected. Their comments about their not being any comments that a PC version of the game is even in the works bothers me. The PC is the ONLY platform that matters and if these guys fuck this up good luck trying to get anyone to trust them again with anything they touch. And greed with the listed enhanced features listed by Techie.

Re: Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition OS X Plans & Cross-Platform Gaming

Mar 30, 2012, 11:17

necrosis

Techie714 © wrote on Mar 30, 2012, 11:10: In order for me to buy this again It will need to have the following. High resolution textures Full widescreen support to at least 1920x~~1080~~1200 Upgraded sound New graphical enhancements Yep I would buy it, if it had those features. I dont think that is asking to much from a "Enhanced Edition". Corrected.

Re: Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition OS X Plans & Cross-Platform Gaming

Mar 30, 2012, 11:10

Techie714 ©

In order for me to buy this again It will need to have the following.

High resolution textures

Full widescreen support to at least 1920x1080

Upgraded sound

New graphical enhancements

Yep I would buy it, if it had those features. I dont think that is asking to much from a "Enhanced Edition".




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Re: Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition OS X Plans & Cross-Platform Gaming

Mar 30, 2012, 11:09

grudgebearer

eRe4s3r wrote on Mar 30, 2012, 11:00:
unprecedented resolution bahahaha

;p Resolution of Infinity Engine is fixed, you only enlarge the space you can see and thus make everything smaller by doing so. So their "enhancing" is basically the G3 Widescreen mod.

Get that, enhancing done. ^^

Well, the G3 widescreen mod isn't perfect, and you need additional mods to make the UI usable at the higher resolutions, and most of those break other features like windowed mode. So, it would still be an improvement over the current mods.

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Re: Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition OS X Plans & Cross-Platform Gaming

Mar 30, 2012, 11:00

eRe4s3r

unprecedented resolution bahahaha ;p Resolution of Infinity Engine is fixed, you only enlarge the space you can see and thus make everything smaller by doing so. So their "enhancing" is basically the G3 Widescreen mod. Get that, enhancing done. ^^

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