Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition announced

[qornea]

Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition announcement breaks the internet

The countdown timer has hit zero…and sites went down in flames.

 

[Necuno]

Just follow the tweets

Trent Oster

:Apparently our server thinks we're getting DDOS'ed Silly rabbit #baldursgate is just loved by a lot of people

:Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition is going to have new content for the game you love, made by some of the original team members

 

[Grimspoon]

Awesome! .

 

[Necuno]

#Trent Oster

Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition will include the Tales of the Sword Coast Expansion

#baldursgate

Here's a quote from the official Baldur's Gate page: Baldur's Gate 1 and BG2: EE "Will feature a re-forged version of the Infinity Engine with a variety of modern improvements."

 

[qornea]

Indeedy!

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced + Tales of the Sword Coast AND Baldur's Gate 2: Enhanced + Throne of Bhaal.

News just keeps getting better. Now show us some screens and gameplay!

 

[Maplassie]

Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes

 

[Avatar]

 

[OmegaFenix]

I Dont have one with the Baldur's Gate Image in but this is how I feel right now.

 

[Necuno]

Thank god (looking at tweets)

Trent Oster

@mortenest #bgee will be all 2D. We're using the hardware for acceleration.

@DiogoOrtigoso #bgee is 2nd Edition D&D. Our first rule is don't break the fun. Part of the appeal of BG was the depth of the rules system

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dualshockers.com

UPDATE: Trent Oster of Beamdog (of which Overhaul Games is a division) shared a few details over his twitter account:

There will actually be two games: Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition and Baldur’s Gate 2: Enhanced edition. Both Games will include the original expansions: Tales of the Sword Coast and Throne of Bhaal

The game will still use the AD&D 2nd Edition Ruleset.

There will be new content over the original games, created by some of the original developers of the Baldur’s Gate series.

The games will use the Infinity Enhanced engine, based on the latest Throne of Bhaal codebase.
Screenshots will be released next week.

The developer is very interested in supporting the modding community and has announcements in store about mods, even if nothing final has been shared yet on the topic.

Beamdog is looking into supporting as many languages as possible.

Graphics will still be 2D isometric.

Only part of the script will actually be voiced.

There will be new characters voiced by new voice actors.

All the bugs left over in the original games will be fixed.

Current plans are to release the games only as digital downloads.

 

[Tsar]

I can't wait I need some old school rpging without the hassle of all the widescreen hacks

 

[Isengard]

This is good news, now I have a good reason to go back and finally finish BG2.

 

[Death in a Can]

This really brings back memories, i hope its as good as it was back in the day

 

[OmegaFenix]

This really brings back memories, i hope its as good as it was back in the day

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