{"id":34321,"date":"2012-03-16T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T12:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=34321"},"modified":"2012-03-16T17:11:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T15:11:49","slug":"baldurs-gate-enhanced-what-we-know-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/34321-baldurs-gate-enhanced-what-we-know-so-far","title":{"rendered":"Baldur&#8217;s Gate Enhanced &#8211; what we know so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Beamdog and Overhaul Games teamed up to break the internet, by announcing a revamp of the iconic D&amp;D based RPG, Baldur\u2019s Gate. The developers wre responsible for MDK2 HD, and are now working on a similar overhaul for Baldur\u2019s Gate.<\/p>\n<p>The press release doesn\u2019t reveal too much, other than the game will run on the Infinity Engine, will be re-forged, and will feature unspecified modern updates. The team working on the enhanced edition includes members of the original development team.<\/p>\n<p>Since the announcement, Beamdog\u2019s Trent Oster has tweeted a bunch of juicy new details. This is what we know so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Baldur\u2019s Gate Enhanced Edition will not support controllers \u2013 \u201cpointer devices only\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>DirectPlay has been removed.<\/li>\n<li>The user interface and rendering have been reworked for modern resolutions and wide screen displays.<\/li>\n<li>Although DRM and distribution details have not been worked out, Ostler says \u201cWe&#8217;ll try to draft a non-jerkbag way of getting the game to people with minimal BS.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Right now the PC version is the focus, but more platform (Mac) details will be revealed in later weeks.<\/li>\n<li>The developer will make use of improvements made by modders in the enhanced edition.<\/li>\n<li>The game will be fully 2D and isometric, and modern hardware will be used for \u201cacceleration\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The music will not be changed.<\/li>\n<li>The game is currently planned for digital release only.<\/li>\n<li>The developer will try not to break mod compatibility.<\/li>\n<li>No content will be removed, although the game won\u2019t include all of the original voice over work.<\/li>\n<li>There will be new characters.<\/li>\n<li>The game will use the 2nd Edition D&amp;D rule set.<\/li>\n<li>The developer is aiming\u00a0 to make old save games compatible.<\/li>\n<li>The game will support multiple languages.<\/li>\n<li>The game is planned for a Norther Hemisphere Summer 2012 release, so towards the middle of the year.<\/li>\n<li>The Enhanced Edition will include the Tales of the Sword Coast Expansion.<\/li>\n<li>There will also be Baldur&#8217;s Gate 2: Enhanced Edition including the Throne of Bhaal expansion at some point as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you\u2019re on Twitter, you can follow Oster yourself for more updates <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/trentoster\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related article<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34284-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-announcement-breaks-the-internet.html\" target=\"_blank\">Baldur\u2019s Gate Enhanced Edition announcement breaks the internet. <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this Tome of Learning and get a +1 to intelligence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":34326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[2528,2750,2530,21,2736],"class_list":["post-34321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-baldurs-gate","tag-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition","tag-beamdog","tag-headline","tag-overhaul-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34325,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34321\/revisions\/34325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}