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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: 2) by stretch611 on Saturday December 22 2018, @11:32PM
I also played the original NWN on linux.
In order to do so, you needed to download a patch file that added linux executables for the game. The DLC for NWN also worked on linux, I specifically remember playing the Infinite Dungeons DLC.
I now have the Beamdog Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition, which is also supported under linux and has been designed for compatibility with modern computers.
As for NPCs: Long Live Deekin!!!
Deekin was a kobold bard that could change classes to a Red Dragon Disciple (a D&D 3.5 prestige class.) He had the best dialog in the game (It was hilarious.)
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P