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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 takyon on Sunday December 23 2018, @02:32AM (1 child)
I saw it mentioned on the OpenMW wikipedia and then watched some footage on YouTube earlier today. Except it was just a partial playthrough of the main quest. Sounds like it can get much more wild.
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(Score: 1) by Crypthulhu on Sunday December 23 2018, @04:12AM
Within the first few hours there were miniature nekkid fist fights(between serious questing). Admins seem responsive though, and the server browser etc, works fine. I'm running a 1.2ghz dual core laptop in the back of a 1985 chevy g20 van hitting a wifi repeater setup. If I can run it, you can run it.
*NORK*