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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Techie714 © wrote on Mar 19, 2012, 10:44: 3.5 > 4.0 Regardless of which you prefer when playing PnP, 4.0 feels to me like it would translate really well to a computer game. So much so that sometimes I wonder if the massive simplification of powers and feats was done with licensing for CRPGs in mind.
The behaviour of standard, encounter and daily powers could finally put an end to the eternally clumsy "rest" mechanic.
It's disappointing that the best they've been able to do with 4.0 so far is a hack-n-slash. |
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