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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: 5, Interesting) by takyon on Saturday December 22 2018, @03:17PM
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind saved or "killed" the genre, depending on who you ask [wikipedia.org].
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