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Coming to XB1, Switch and PS4: Baldur’s Gate 1/2, Icewind Dale, Planescape: Torment, and Neverwinter Nights (Update: Release Plans Detailed)
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Fucking aces. Played a lot of hours of BD2 and NWN back in the day. May pick up several (or all) of these on XB1.
For those wondering how these would work, there's plenty of CRPGs on consoles to provide an idea. Take a look at Divinity, Pillars of Eternity, Tides of Numenera, or hell even Diablo 3.
For those wondering how these would work, there's plenty of CRPGs on consoles to provide an idea. Take a look at Divinity, Pillars of Eternity, Tides of Numenera, or hell even Diablo 3.
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You want them to do badly on the other consoles? Post like these make no sense.
where did you get that from that post? hoping something does well on platform X is the same thing as wishing it fails on other platforms?
Why would you ever assume that the exclusion of the other consoles in Tron1's post means they hope the ports do badly on other consoles?
Says a whole lot more about him imo
I'm not sure how homosexual you have to be for "very".. but yes. BG1 has a man who will romance players of either gender, and in BG2 he returns plus there is one lesbian romance option.
IWD has no romance to my knowledge, NWN technically does, but they're all hetero I believe.
Man, Baldur's Gate. Really want to replay those two games. Some of my best memories in gaming.
Hope you guys enjoy it. Baldur's Gate and its sequel are fantastic games that anyone should play.
Hope you guys enjoy it. Baldur's Gate and its sequel are fantastic games that anyone should play.
I don't mean it like that. Those games already look bad if you zoom in even on pc because they were designed for much smaller resolutions. On consoles I imagine the only way to play them is by zooming in since you're farther away from the screen than on a PC.
Ironically I think they will probably look a lot better on the Switch (handheld mode) than on the twins.
I'm more worried that modern gamers are going to see all the reading and spontaneously combust.
Would love to see sale figures for these on consoles. For those that do not know, these are long, very long, cRPG's, with often more reading than combat, especially for Planescape Torment, more emphasis on role play and story.
Hope they do well in the console space and find an audience there, so we can have more cRPG's in the future.
Hope they do well in the console space and find an audience there, so we can have more cRPG's in the future.
Alright, which one of these would be the most accessible first dip for a console pleb like me, who has never touched these and will likely play most of it on a Switch screen?
Or should I not worry myself about such things and go straight for the alleged GoaT, Planescape: Torment?
Or should I not worry myself about such things and go straight for the alleged GoaT, Planescape: Torment?
Torment is pretty different than the others. As a first pick it's pretty good so you don't get bogged down with the systems in the other games. It's also fairly easy to play. Might want to read a guide about class switching. Playing as a mage makes combat more fun I think but you have to complete a few quests to unlock the ability to change into paticular classes so it might be best to just google 'how to be a mage planescape torment' and read little else to not spoil yourself.
After that I do like Baldur's Gate because it's low level and a lot simpler with an emphasis on exploring wilderness whereas BG2 is more focused on busy areas with less exploration outaide the main city and Icewind Dale is more linear. Leave Neverwinter Nights till last I'd say. It's big draw is the online worlds rather than the story and by the time you get to it they'll probably be a heap of patches updatig things.
BG2 then Planescape Torment, BG2 has more action and Torment might turn off some new comers even tho it's the best.
I advise to also read up on AD&D 3.5 mechanics just to understand to concept of THAC0 and how armor and damage is calculated and how spells, buffs and debuffs work. Or you can just play it on story mode and not worry about all of that but then again where's the fun in that?
Yes.
I'm seriously hoping for split screen co-op on PS4 tbh, even if I'm still curious to see how the point and click will work.
oh man, never did get around to baldurs gate HD or whatever it was....I'd buy a physical on torment day 1, still dying to find a good deal on a big boxed PC copy
Have you seen what machine learning algorithms can do to upscale images? There is hope! (if they actually use that method)
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Have you seen what machine learning algorithms can do to upscale images? There is hope! (if they actually use that method)
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Is there actually a completed mod on PC for ESRGAN? Completed another BG2 playthrough and I mean to start a PST playthrough with an upscale mod preferably.
Like a few others on this thread I really wish they were bringing Dark Alliance I & II back too. I had so much fun playing those games co-op back in the day.
THAC0 was in AD&D 2nd Edition. Actually, none of the games announced use the 3.5 Edition D&D ruleset. Neverwinter Nights uses the 3.0 Edition D&D ruleset, while the rest uses AD&D 2nd Edition rules.
Oh wow that looks great. Is there a mod with the entire game like that?Have you seen what machine learning algorithms can do to upscale images? There is hope! (if they actually use that method)
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I wish they would use that, but I'm assuming they will be straight ports of the Enhanced Edition versions, sadly.