More Details on Rad-Sounding Baldur’s Gate Update

Man I've always wanted to play baldur's gate. Now I have to check it it fire sure.

While I am stoked about this, I'm also a bit concerned. I hope they don't mess with it too much as far as feeling and gameplay goes. 
 
Well, they already did, to be honest, when they included stuff from BG2, but I suppose it's fair since tutu does the same.

What were your excuses before now?

It's certainly about time it gets a release date, they're only barely making it in to the summer window they talked about.

Not sure how I feel about the 20 dollar PC price-tag. It does come with the extra additional content, but the game really doesn't need it, and most of the dated problems of the original can be fixed via the Tutu mod on the 10$ GOG version. The mod isn't perfect though, so it all comes down to how far it goes beyond that mod in fixing it up for me to justify buying it. Functional online doesn't hurt either.

Looking forward to seeing how it turns out either way. I still rank Baldur's Gate 2 and its expansion to be my most favorite games of all time.

I literally can't wait for this! :O

Yes. Literally.

Well, they said it was coming this summer. Looks like they're keeping their promise, albeit by three days. Glad their putting this great game out for people like me who missed it the first time around.

Reeeealy nifty with the new characters, although Baldur's Gate sure has a lot of them. But WIld Mage was so underrepresented in Baldur's Gate 2 and that character in particular interests me. Also sounds like she'll have a romance option... which was totally not something that existed in Baldur's Gate the first. At least... it says "a romantic adventure," which could also just imply that there's intrigue during whatever her side-quest might be.

The other thing that Baldur's Gate has enough of is dungeons, so an arena combat area sounds totally unnecessary.

And nobody has any excuse to not play the game right now. It runs on modern PCs and looks fantastic doing so because the artwork of the Infinity Engine games is amazing, and the resolution of even the original game designed to run at 640x480 scales up just fine.

Yay, I can own a 4th version of Baldur's Gate. I have the original 7 disc version which I lost for a year or so. Bought another 3 disc version then found the original 7 disc version in my room. Then figured I'd buy the GoGs one. Man the original manual that I have is like 200 pages long.

"Hey Baldur's Gate!"-Jeff G.

I always wanted to play Baldur's Gate, awesome to see this coming so soon.

Great!

Looking forward to Planescape

cant wait for this !

If you, like me, have never played Baldur’s Gate, Beamdog is removing any excuses come September.

The company has announced new details about Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, a revamped and retooled version of the BioWare classic coming to PC, Mac, iPad and Android-based tablets.

All but the Android version is scheduled for September, with the PC and Mac versions costing $19.99, while the iOS edition is $9.99. On iPad, players will have to use in-app purchases for two new characters--one's included. The PC version arrives on September 18, while the other platforms are a more vague "September."

The new characters include Blackguard half-orc Dorn II-Khan, half-elf mage Neera, and Calishite Monk Rasaad yn Bashir. Every version includes Bashir, the others are an additional purchase on iPad.

Beamdog is also including a brand-new dungeon in the Enhanced Edition, The Black Pits. The Black Pits is Underdark-set environment which the studio is billing as having six hours of additional gameplay across 15 levels of “arena-style combat challenges,” and a “a bizarre cast of characters.”

Some of the new improvements sounds pretty great, too, including “over 400” fixes to the original game code, features taken straight from Baldur’s Gate 2 (class kits, new subraces and classes), and the ability to participate in multiplayer with other users on completely different platforms.

Getting games even just a decade old up-and-running on modern hardware is no small feat, and if a way does exist, you often have the hardcore communities of fans to thank. See: System Shock 2. In this case, Beamdog seems to be going the extra mile to treat Baldur’s Gate right. Good on them.

Also, I’ll no longer have any excuses. Good ones, anyway.

The full list of changes are available on the official website.