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Posted September 15, 2012
GOG loves D&D! Here's why:

<i>While our [url=http://www.gog.com/en/promo/hasbro_stacking_promo]Diamonds of D&amp;D promo is in the works we--the GOG.com staff-- would like to share some very personal memories with you. Let's start at the beginning, shall we? I mean with Baldur's Gate, which might not be the first of the epic open-ended D&D adventures, but it sure as hell started a whole new chapter for the computer role-playing games. Here's a few of our favorite memories and sentiments associated with that milestone of a game.

Baldur's Gate brought a new quality to skipping school, as we played with three of my pals on one computer. It was like the biggest thing ever for us. I even had a hamster I called Imoen. It died after like a week. Today, I think it would live much longer if I didn't try to be original and--like six other guys on my block--just gave it the noble name "Boo".
--Krash, the GOG.com heavy-duty game tester


Since Baldur's Gate was first released there wasn't a year when I wouldn't play it. Somehow I rarely manage to actually finish it, but I enjoy spending time in the Sword Coast so much, that I always have an ongoing game of Baldur's Gate I or Baldur's Gate II on my laptop. I love to know that I have it with me everywhere I go and I can escape to the Forgotten Realms at the push of a button. Just don't tell TET!
--G-Doc, the GOG.com clickity-click guy


Ah, I remember the first time I laid my hands on Baldur's Gate . Stop. That's not true. Actually, I hardly remember anything about the first time I tried to play BG. I didn't know what to do and I hardly understood anything that was going on, probably because of the language barrier and I-have-never-played-RPGs barrier. It was difficult and, I guess, kinda boring because I uninstalled it the next day. I WAS 13 GODDAMIT, OK?

Luckily, there was this daring polish company named CD Projekt (sounds familiar?), that spent bucketloads of money to make Baldur's Gate the first ever major fully localized video game in Poland. Yep, they chose Baldur's Gate: probably the biggest and most difficult game they could pick for translating back then. I mean, 150 hours of dialogs, narration, spells, armors, weird creatures, quests, etc. in a fantasy world almost unknown before then. And they've hired the cream of the crop of polish actors; I mean really BIG names, like you had De Niro, Pacino, and Nicholson in a frickin' video game. What's even more incredible, is that they managed to pull it off.

Baldur's Gate became a tremendous success and everyone wanted to play it. Everyone but me. Because I played the *imported from Russia* 150% legit version few months earlier I was feeling hipsterish and used "Meh, already played it" as an intolerable excuse to justify my ignorance. Only after Tales of the Sword Cast came out I've decided to give the game a second chance and it was one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life. So when Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, the second game in the series came along I was ready to embrace it with all the due love and enthusiasm. Once you played Baldur's Gate you're like a "mature gamer" and you can grow a beard, start booking 'gaming time' in your calendar, work for the best digital distributor you could find, and keep rolling high on your d20's--like I do.
--MDyzzle, the GOG.com "do this" man


So, there you have it. Our very own Baldur's Gate series love stories. Care to share one of yours?
Posted September 16, 2012
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ddmuse: Good thinking of GOG to post this while some of us are trying to convince Obsidian to release Project Eternity DRM-free, preferably on GOG. Highlights the interest of both GOG and its customers in having these kinds of games here. I tip my hat and join in the sharing.

Fallout and Baldur's Gate turned me on to PC gaming. Later I discovered PS:T and IWD. Baldur's Gate 2 got me into modding. I excitedly preordered Dragon Age because Bioware billed it as a spiritual successor to BG, and I enjoyed it (while flawed in some ways, it's a good game in my book, unlike its sequel). These games still contribute in large part to the standard by which I judge games. I love 'em. I have every Fallout and D&D game offered here on GOG (in addition to the physical copies I still own of several). I want to pledge to Project Eternity but don't (and won't) use Steam and want a DRM-free version, preferably one provided by GOG. :-)
The good news is, they are going to make it DRM-free if they get around 2.4 million
Posted September 16, 2012
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ddmuse: Good thinking of GOG to post this while some of us are trying to convince Obsidian to release Project Eternity DRM-free, preferably on GOG. Highlights the interest of both GOG and its customers in having these kinds of games here. I tip my hat and join in the sharing.

Fallout and Baldur's Gate turned me on to PC gaming. Later I discovered PS:T and IWD. Baldur's Gate 2 got me into modding. I excitedly preordered Dragon Age because Bioware billed it as a spiritual successor to BG, and I enjoyed it (while flawed in some ways, it's a good game in my book, unlike its sequel). These games still contribute in large part to the standard by which I judge games. I love 'em. I have every Fallout and D&D game offered here on GOG (in addition to the physical copies I still own of several). I want to pledge to Project Eternity but don't (and won't) use Steam and want a DRM-free version, preferably one provided by GOG. :-)
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MFbM: The good news is, they are going to make it DRM-free if they get around 2.4 million
I think you misread that. The stretch goals for 2.4 million are "Coming Soon!"; investigating DRM-free, putting up digital only tiers, etc are things they're doing independent of how much more money they pull in. Which means that there's no guarantee that they'll go DRM-free even if it hits 2.4 million, but also means that it might even if they don't, so good news, bad news.
Posted September 16, 2012
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PMIK: Wait a second, De niro and Pacino are Polish? I never knew that
They were both born in New York, so no
Posted September 16, 2012
First of all thx for the promo, finally I bought BG1-2 and IWD 1-2.
My first game from the series was Icewind Dale I believe, but my favourite ever is definitely Planescape: Torment.
Still, the Baldur's Gate series is a must have game and story for every pnp rpg-gamer.
Posted September 16, 2012
This promo gathers the best among the best.
Posted September 17, 2012
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PMIK: Wait a second, De niro and Pacino are Polish? I never knew that
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Toast_burner: They were both born in New York, so no
So what the hell is MDyzzle going on about in the opening post?
Posted September 17, 2012
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PMIK: Wait a second, De niro and Pacino are Polish? I never knew that
He was saying it was IF Pacino, De Niro, etc did the dialogue for it. He was trying to relate it to people from english speaking countries of just how big the Polish actors used were.
Posted September 17, 2012
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PMIK: Wait a second, De niro and Pacino are Polish? I never knew that
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TVs_Frank: He was saying it was IF Pacino, De Niro, etc did the dialogue for it. He was trying to relate it to people from english speaking countries of just how big the Polish actors used were.
Oh.. okay. It doesn't read like that at all but now I can see where he is coming from.
Posted September 17, 2012
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TVs_Frank: He was saying it was IF Pacino, De Niro, etc did the dialogue for it. He was trying to relate it to people from english speaking countries of just how big the Polish actors used were.
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PMIK: Oh.. okay. It doesn't read like that at all but now I can see where he is coming from.
Give him some leeway, it's not his native tongue, heh.
Posted September 17, 2012
The Baldur's Gate series is so damn good that whenever someone mentions these games I go out of my way to let them know that I think they're the best games ever made. For me, nothing compares to the feeling I get out of searching for the culprits behind the iron shortage in Nashkel mines or investigating murders for Scar in Baldur's Gate. And I'm not even kidding.
Posted September 18, 2012
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Telika: Okay.

I never liked Baldur's Gate. I had a french version....
I'm sorry for you. (
I was more of a Fallout guy.

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So, I don't like this game very much. I still always considered a duty to play it, and its sequel, out of respect for these friends (and confidence for their collective judgement on this game's story quality), but I'll wait for the enhanced version, because I really fail to overcome its interface as it is today.
At such a time as you decide to play BG1 and BG2, I recommend you do three things:

1) Use the available mods to enhance the gameplay (e.g. the "ease of use" mod).
2) Use the "BG Tutu" mod so you can play BG1 with BG2's more advanced interface.
3) Use the pause function in battle for that "Fall-Out, turn-based combat" feeling.

As for all of the drawbacks tied to the French version, I see no solution other than playing in a different language. i wonder if the modding community has re-done the French voice-acting, etc?


-Khalaq
Posted September 18, 2012
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Khalaq: -Khalaq
One reason why I turned to GOG and digital buys is the access to original voice versions (before that, I had to pirate even the games that I had bought). Localisations drive me mad : it's virtually impossible to get the original versions on retail.

As for the interface, I'm betting on the soon-to-be-released enhanced version. This should solve everything.
Posted September 18, 2012
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Telika: One reason why I turned to GOG and digital buys is the access to original voice versions (before that, I had to pirate even the games that I had bought). Localisations drive me mad : it's virtually impossible to get the original versions on retail.
Yeah, I'm also no fan of the localizations they have here, and it's a pretty big problem too. I've had to order my copies of Fallout 3 and New Vegas from the UK to be able to play the original versions. (I could've just bought NV on Steam, but I wanted a physical copy in my collection.)

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Telika: As for the interface, I'm betting on the soon-to-be-released enhanced version. This should solve everything.
Well, this topic has been the target of some controversy since the first screenshots of the UI surfaced. Decide for yourself:

http://www.baldursgate.com/news_2012sep10.en.html
Posted September 18, 2012
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adamzs: Well, this topic has been the target of some controversy since the first screenshots of the UI surfaced. Decide for yourself:

http://www.baldursgate.com/news_2012sep10.en.html
Looks ok to me, same game, modernized. What is the controversy ? I'm not enough of a baldurian to spot the potential issues from these screenshots.
Posted September 18, 2012
Hmm.. still no NWN 2. I'll check back later then.
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