{"id":36119,"date":"2012-04-17T17:15:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T15:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=36119"},"modified":"2012-04-18T13:57:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T11:57:40","slug":"baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-not-heading-to-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/36119-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-not-heading-to-consoles","title":{"rendered":"Baldur&#8217;s Gate Enhanced Edition not heading to consoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Baldur&#8217;s Gate Enhanced Edition won&#8217;t be out for a month or so, but in the meantime, let&#8217;s get excited about its increased level cap and not-increased party limit because why not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur plan is to raise the level cap a bit in [Baldur&#8217;s Gate Enhanced Edition] to allow for the new content,\u201d <a title=\"Beamdog\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/24177-Beamdog\">Beamdog<\/a> boss <a title=\"Trent Oster\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/24178-Trent-Oster\">Trent Oster<\/a> said on <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19976-Twitter\">Twitter<\/a>. Although quite what that &#8220;new content&#8221; actually is remains a mystery for the moment, it does include &#8220;a new adventure and new party member&#8221;, according to the official site.<\/p>\n<p>The original game&#8217;s party limit of six would stay in place, though, for pratical reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won\u2019t be changing the game to more than six characters, the entire game would have to be re-balanced. [Baldur&#8217;s Gate]&#8217;s fun is partly the compromises,\u201d Oster added later, who obviously never spent three hours attempting to clear a gnoll fort before reloading a prior save because it was impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Oster also confirmed that the game wouldn&#8217;t be coming to <a title=\"Xbox 360\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19882-Xbox-360\">Xbox<\/a> any time soon, saying the controller &#8220;isn\u2019t a good fit&#8221;, and wouldn&#8217;t be coming to <a title=\"Nintendo Wii\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19914-Nintendo-Wii-U\">Wii<\/a> ever because &#8220;our previous experience with <a title=\"Nintendo\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11857-Nintendo\">Nintendo<\/a> was enough to ensure there will not be another&#8221;. Ooooh, sick burn.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be coming to PC, Mac, and tablets soon, although a release date has not been announced yet.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2012\/04\/17\/baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-to-raise-level-cap-enforce-party-limit\/\" target=\"_blank\">VG247<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Baldur\u2019s Gate: Enhanced gets OS X release, cross-platform multiplayer\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/35150-baldurs-gate-enhanced-gets-os-x-release-cross-platform-multiplayer.html\">Baldur\u2019s Gate: Enhanced gets OS X release, cross-platform multiplayer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Baldur\u2019s Gate Enhanced \u2013 what we know so far\" href=\"..\/news\/34321-baldurs-gate-enhanced-what-we-know-so-far.html\"><strong>Baldur\u2019s Gate Enhanced Edition \u2013 what we know so farn<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Baldur\u2019s Gate: Enhanced Edition dev \u201cwould love\u201d to redo Planescape: Torment\" href=\"..\/news\/35052-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition-dev-would-love-to-do-planescape-torment.html\"><strong>Baldur\u2019s Gate: Enhanced Edition dev \u201cwould love\u201d to redo Planescape: Torment<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revamped version will feature increased level cap, but doesn&#8217;t increase party limit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":34322,"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],"tags":[31,2528,2986,2750,2530,2736,2985,2529],"class_list":["post-36119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-baldurs-gate","tag-baldurs-gate-ii","tag-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition","tag-beamdog","tag-overhaul-games","tag-planescape-torment","tag-trent-oster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36119","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36182,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36119\/revisions\/36182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}