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on Saturday December 22 2018, @07:35AM
from the how-about-a-nice-roll-playing-game-like...dice? dept.
from the how-about-a-nice-roll-playing-game-like...dice? dept.
The product of three exhausting and exhilarating years of labor by a team of roughly 15 people who didn’t know enough to be daunted by the task they undertook, Baldur’s Gate was a genre-stretching, disc-space-testing hybrid that broke new narrative, technical, and gameplay ground and established the identity of one of the past two decades’ most storied studios. “It just redefined expectations of what a role-playing game could be,” Oster says. “I think it really relaunched the whole concept of what a Western RPG is.”
Was Baldur's Gate that important, or just a reprise of Ultima?
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How ‘Baldur’s Gate’ Saved the Computer RPG, or Did it?
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday December 22 2018, @08:19AM (6 children)
I never liked games. But what I did like about them is that you never fucked with their hamster. [wikimedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @09:09AM (1 child)
So what? If it comes to that, I never fucked with any hamster.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @01:17PM
It's easy.
Just make sure you have sufficient duct tape.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @10:17AM (1 child)
Jesus - hamsters. Do you have any idea how many hamsters it takes to make a man-sized breakfast? NOBODY fucks with hamsters, or chipmunks, or field mice. The food chain starts with squirrels. Two or three squirrels can make a meal. Hamsters? Fuck you, man.
(Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Saturday December 22 2018, @01:09PM
One. But they tend to eat [1d4chan.org] more than just one man for breakfast.
(Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday December 22 2018, @11:37AM (1 child)
Not just any ordinary hamster, a miniature giant space hamster! Go for the eyes, Boo! Go for the eyes!
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Kalas on Saturday December 22 2018, @10:46PM
At first I thought I saw a motherfucking Megatokyo reference on SN, but after doing some digging I can see I got it backwards. The hamster named Boo in that series is just a reference to this game. Never would've guessed that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Megatokyo_characters#Boo [wikipedia.org]
"Go for the beer, Boo!"