{"id":7947,"date":"2012-02-29T16:42:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T00:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=7947"},"modified":"2012-03-16T09:16:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T17:16:17","slug":"an-aside-are-you-ready-to-return-to-baldurs-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/videogames\/an-aside-are-you-ready-to-return-to-baldurs-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"An Aside | Are you ready to return to BALDUR’S GATE?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>So a new website has appeared. No big deal, right? Well, this one’s special. You see, it’s for Baldur’s Gate<\/a>, the near mythical CRPG series developed by Bioware. And all signs point to some exciting news coming down the pipeline.<\/p>\n

Rock, Paper, Shotgun<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n

This is, apparently, coming from former BioWare developer Trent Oster, who worked on the original BG, as well as the first Neverwinter Nights. His new company, Beamdog, is a digital distribution platform, brought to wider attention recently via the release of MDK 2 HD, and this, GameBanshee claims, will be the source of new Forgotten Realms chat-n-chopping. <\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The rights to the games are owned by Atari, who have spent the last few years re-releasing the series, along with NWN and others, in about 30,000 different packages. It\u2019s clear that the company has been trying to make the best of owning all the BioWare classics for quite a while, and in fact back in 2008 there were rumours they were going to add to these franchises.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The most intriguing part of all is found if you dig into the website’s HTML:
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\n< -- February 28, 2012 -->
\n< -- Shadowy Figure- Raise Dead : Infinity Engine --><\/p>\n

< -- For years, I clung to the memory of it. Then the memory of the memory. --><\/p>\n

< -- And then... it returned. Better than it was before. --><\/p>\n

< -- Pore over the tapestries and works of art hanging from our walls if you wish, Child of Bhaal... perhaps you will find a clue. But patience, ah... patience would reveal it all. -->
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I’m frothing here. But can it possibly live up to the series’ reputation? Many would argue that Baldur’s Gate 2<\/em> is the pinnacle of the CRPG genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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