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And you'll no doubt be equally familiar with the formal 'no' response, soon followed by an explanation of how surprised the games' creator is at its success. No such false modesty here. Bioware was fully convinced from the beginning that it had a world-beater on its hands.
We started working on Baldur's Gate in the mids it's shocking how long ago that seems now and the working title of the game we were building was Battleground Infinity. Bl was going to be a mythology-based RPG with a lot of multiplayer features. The industry perspective was that RPGs were dead, and there weren't any significant RPGs in development aside from a little something called Diablo , but that hadn't been announced at the time we started our work.
Of course, a game the size of BG is no easy undertaking. We asked the two Docs to share with us the highs and lows of the development process, secretly hoping for juicy tidbits such as PCs being thrown out of windows and wives giving ultimatums.
No such luck. However, Ray offered these insights: "We've learned a lot from the things that worked well and not so well in BG. For example, we didn't spend as long as we might have wanted on the prototyping of the game, and we kept on thinking of better ways to do things. So to maintain consistent quality we ended up redoing the art for the backgrounds two times, and redoing the animation of the characters in the game once. This was a lot of work, but the team really put their hearts and souls into the game so it ended up being very good in the end.
In fact, it is even similar to the original version of Battleground Infinity we imagined. We've since gone back to many of the early design documents for BG and Battleground and it is evident we stuck to our guns with the vision - practically all of the features we planned were in the final release.
The most shocking thing is seeing GUI designs from that match the final game. But then we did have a tremendous team working on Baldur's Gate, and everyone had a very concrete vision of the game we were building - it was a tremendous accomplishment for a group of people that had never worked on a game before. It's difficult to see, given the technology available when BG was first released, how it could possibly have been made any better than it was. Strong storyline, hugely interactive gameworld and a fascinating myriad of quests were enough to keep even the most picky of RPG fans happy for a small eternity.
But what if they could do it all again? What, if anything, would they change? Ray responds: "I'm not sure we would change anything - we tried our best and made a very good game in the process. Certainly, we try to improve with every game, since one of our philosophies at BioWare is to try to make each game better than the last. Ah yes, BG2. Lofty expectations were rife.
It was the first real test of Bioware's integrity as a games publisher. Should they stick with an established formula and give gamers more of the same ie cop out? Or would they move the series forward and introduce new elements to expand the experience?
We know now that the correct answer here is they did both. All the good things about the first game were intact, and many new features were successfully introduced, making BG2 the 'perfect' RPG gaming experience and the new benchmark for the competition.
But how did Bioware feel about the end result? BGII allowed us to use everything we learned making the original Baldur's Gate and apply it in an environment with a stable technology and tools framework - a game designer's dream.
The superb work of the designers on the game is evidence of how much fun everyone had working on it. BGII is one of those exceptionally rare games where even in retrospect you wouldn't really want to change anything. We couldn't resist asking about Baldur's Gate 3. It's the game every self-respecting RPG fan is waiting for. Dreams of Baldur's Gate in true 3D. An intricate BG storyline bursting with interesting characters married to the latest in graphics technology would surely be the ultimate RPG.
So, is it going to happen? Over to Greg: "The best way for me to answer this is that we don't really know the future of the Baldur's Gate series. We closed the Child of Bhaal story arc with Baldur's Gate 2: Throne Of Bhaal, and we were very happy about being able to finish things off property. All too often game stories are left unfinished, and we're content that we concluded the story behind the Baldur's Gate games we developed at BioWare. That's not the answer we were looking for at all.
It was in fact the 'wrong' answer, an erroneous response, but if Ray and Greg have a secret version of BG3 up their sleeves, they are refusing to be budged on it. So on this particular subject, we are dropped soundly back in the land of 'wait and see'. So where do we go from here? Every year it seems the PC press make new announcements explaining why the RPG genre is dead and buried, and every year a new RPG title comes along to prove them wrong.
The truth is RPGs are evolving and changing along with gamers tastes and whims. Action RPGs have become fairly common, though purists would no doubt argue they are not true RPGs unless they have 20 gazillion stats to mess about with. This game was so big it took two of us to review it - Karen focused on playing the game through in single player mode, and I played the multiplayer mode with my husband over my home LAN.
Interestingly enough, Karen and I had two different experiences playing the game although we both shared the same addiction to it. Let's face it, this game is nothing short of incredible. I generally don't play games like these through again, but as I write this, I'm on my fourth full game of Baldur's Gate and still enjoying it as much as I did the first time through. While some of the issues Karen had with the single player mode were resolved by multiplayer gameplay, I didn't see some of the interesting NPC features she would have been able to see.
Creating six custom characters definitely has its merits, such as being able to create the exact type of characters you want rather than hoping the game will supply them for you.
However, doing so prevents the player from seeing the interactions that take place between the NPCs in your party and other characters in the game world. Custom characters do not have much of a personality, nor do they have any sort of history aside from "you were a friend of the main character at Candlekeep".
These custom created characters are not as likely to break and attack the party for acting outside of their alignment as NPCs are. My husband controlled both a neutral evil Thief and a lawful good Paladin; he enjoyed sneaking away from the rest of the party to take his characters on house raids in the major towns while I wasn't paying attention.
Granted, he left the Paladin in the living room while the Thief roamed the house and stole things - but I still would think that a character with a lawful good alignment would have a problem breaking into houses. Nor would a Paladin really be able to tolerate being grouped with an evil character in the first place. These differences aside, the story line and subquest structure of both single player and multiplayer is exactly the same. Multiplayer mode allows far greater control over the characters, which is why many players chose to play the game in this mode instead of single player.
Each player in the game session controls a certain number of characters, and to make up for the fact that there can be up to six people playing the game at once, the game does allow you to enter the Inventory screen while paused. This complete control over the characters meant that I never had to worry about auto-pausing the game in battles as Karen did to ensure my characters were doing the right things.
I never ran out of arrows, potions, or anything else. However, I did notice that the character scripts still had an effect if you chose to set them; when I set my fighter to aggressive I had a much harder time controlling him, as he tended to run and attack anything the instant it turned into an enemy. Unfortunately, this meant that if I accidentally made townspeople angry he would generally kill them before I had even realized what happened - but this was easily fixed by turning off the scripts.
Baldur's Gate offers an amazing amount of control over how the game is played in a game session. It is very easy to set up a multiplayer game, and just as easy to join one in progress over the Internet or LAN. Each game can be protected using a password to keep unwanted players from joining.
The player on the server machine or the "leader" has the power to decide - on a per player basis at any point during the game - whether or not the other players have the ability to modify characters, spend gold, initiate dialog, view other character records, leave an area, pause the game, or modify permissions.
The leader has the power to kick other players from the multiplayer session instantly or decide, using the Character Arbitration screen, which player controls which character s. Because of the fluidity of multiplayer game play, characters can be added, deleted, or reassigned during game play on the fly. At any point during the game, the leader can completely change the dynamics of the party, deleting all the old characters and creating completely new ones if he so desires - although any party manipulations mid-game like this drop the party reputation back to 10 or The leader also dictates how player import works.
One can choose to import a character into a game with all experience and items, with experience only, or at with no items or experience. The fact that characters can be imported and exported with full items at any point in the game helps protect players against player killing - the leader can either revert back to a saved game or you can just import your character back in. Just as a test of the import process it isn't considered "cheating" when done as an experiment, right?
I managed to clone in five copies of my fighter for an extremely tough battle. I dismissed the other five people from the party temporarily, then had them rejoin after I sent the five "clones" into battle to be killed.
By cloning the fighter, I not only duplicated him but also any items the he was holding when I exported him. I could pick these items up from the bodies of the dead "clones" and redistribute them within my party, allowing my characters to be equipped with multiple copies of very rare magical items. The game is designed to run in asynchronous mode, which means that not all computers will show the exact same events on the screen.
While this is good in terms of latency issues, it is a little disconcerting during the gameplay. It seemed that whatever appeared on my machine the server was "reality" and whatever appeared on my husband's computer was not. There were many times either my characters or his got killed because of this; to him it looked like the monsters were across the screen, or not there at all, when in reality they were right in the middle of the party.
We even had a couple instances where his characters appeared in impossible places, such as trapped behind walls, when the computers would readjust what was on both our screens. The interface is one that takes a lot of time to get used to and has a high initial learning curve. There are several icons surrounding the main game screen, and as is sometimes the problem with icons, they aren't always intuitive.
Because of these icons, I had to keep the manual handy to keep track of all the different icons and options throughout the game. In general, the icons along the side are the game management icons, allowing the player access to the character screens, inventories, map, journal, and game options. The character portraits are along the opposite side. These can be moved around at will, including putting new characters into the "main character" slot. Players can chat amongst themselves using the dialog box, which can be expanded to be bigger or smaller, depending on the amount of conversation occurring.
Game text, battle statistics, and conversation with NPCs also appears in this box. The icons at the bottom for quick items, weapons, and abilities can be confusing at first, as the icons that appear differ depending on the character type. For instance, the screenshot above is taken with my druid character highlighted, so her bar contains spells, items, and two weapons. The fighter's icons are different, as are the mage's, and so on. For the most part, the game does an excellent job of providing alternate ways to know icons aside from digging out the manual or quick reference guide.
Either a mouse click or leaving the mouse over an icon brings up descriptive text about the icon, spell, ability, or item. One other thing Baldur's Gate does very well is map areas and document major and minor quest information in the journal.
I did not have to keep manual notes at all, which is a first. A game this large and with so much to learn in order to play it needs a manual that is equally as large, and the one that ships with the game is the size of a short novel - pages of very important information.
I must have read through it about three times! I always had it on hand when I played the game, and I found myself referring to it quite often. However, I wish it had contained more in-depth information about the pros and cons of the different races and classes. However, with as much helpful information this manual contained, I don't think it was laid out in such a manner as to be helpful to new players.
Downloads; Theme. Invision 4. Gather your party, and return to the Forgotten Realms in a tale of fellowship and betrayal, sacrifice and survival, and the lure of absolute power. Mysterious abilities are awakening inside you, drawn from a Mind Flayer parasite planted in your brain.
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