The Campaign Builder's Guild

I felt a bit limited by the character class/option choices in BG1/2... It's one reason I prefered IWD2 to BG2.

I admit some skepticism about how much new voice acting they will be able to put in to flesh out new quests and likeable characters, so I'd rather see them focus on the Technical aspects of the game to improve customization and the play experience, and perhaps add one or two mini-quests.

They made Icewind Dale semi 3E. The only good thing it does is give you more control over customizing your character, but you can customize a lot with kits and equipment anyway.

I really hope they put the kits into BG1. Playing BG1 with the BG2 Engine would be great for that. Also, Barbarians, Monks, and Sorcerers from level 1 ...

That's what I mean; If they were going to change the rules, they would make it current. Regardless of what system I like best or would want to see, making it a different flavor of outdated just wouldn't make sense.

Also, doesn't Kenzer Company own the rights to AD&D now?

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That is all.

M.

It will also be on iPad for under $10.

If only I could has ipadz :(

:<

M.

Steerpike will like this, if BGEE and BG2EE are succesfull they're going to make PlaneScape: Torment EE!

The interview I saw said they want to do that and that they would also like to make things like Planescape Torment 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 but sales have to be really good. They had to fight just to get the rights to do this.

What I would like to see is for them to make an isometric engine where we can make adventures-- like NWN's toolkit environment but in 2D... 2D allows more easily done adventure designing possibilities than 3D does.

Yes!

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The interview I saw said they want to do that and that they would also like to make things like Planescape Torment 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 but sales have to be really good. They had to fight just to get the rights to do this.

I find it hard to imagine how a sequel to Torment would make any sense (not that things like that have stopped sequels being made before).  As far as Baldur's Gate is concerned, I never played Throne of Bhaal, but the end of BG2 leaves the idea open a bit more. 

All this said, I dug out my copy of Torment the other day, and started playing it again for the nostalgia.  When I played through that the first time, I never appreciated how intellectual it is, what with the ideologies of the different factions, and the ability to choose between them, not to mention the underpinnings of playing an immortal trying to build a new identity from scratch, and the search to discover oneself. 

The Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance games never really finished, either. The entire franchise is sort of depressing that way.

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I never played Throne of Bhaal, but the end of BG2 leaves the idea open a bit more.

ToB is not just a tacked-on expansion, it continues the central metaplot of the BG games all the way to it's conclusion. While there are two alternate ways for the story to end there, neither of them would make a good starting point for further sequels.

So, I've been scanning this thread, but I'm unclear on what game system they plan to use for the remake. I'm sure I just missed it--they're not actually going to use AD&D again, are they?

Wait, I was pretty sure they said initially that the enhanced edition releases were actually mostly meant as a precursor to the development of a BG3, implying that the development of the EE games were more teasers than stand-alone releases?

ooc: all signs point to "Yes, they are going to be using the AD&D engine again". I can imagine converting everything to another system would be quite a tremendous programming overhaul and possibly catastrophic to the (somewhat) finely tuned balance of the original. Plus, you'd end up with an enraged audience of grognards. Later releases would probably use a newer edition, I imagine.