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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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(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!"