Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition announced. The atemporal classic masterpiece is back.

[John Reynolds]

I hated NWN1 but loved NWN2, played through it and its expansions a good 4-5x.

 

[Richard]

I hated NWN1 but loved NWN2, played through it and its expansions a good 4-5x.

NWN2 was great. I still need to play through the expansions. Bought the complete edition on Steam the day it released.

 

[Ethatron]

If BG3 would have ToEE's tactical round break-down it'd be perfect. They wouldn't even need to add story IMHO. If you have that amount of finegrained control, mages become invaluable and accessible from level 1 on. Counterspelling fe. is fully left out of BG for I don't know what reason, but's essential for a spell-caster.

 

[I.S.T.]

Pool of Radiance could nuke your C drive? Christ.So, SiN, PoR. What other games could do so?

 

[Davros]

half life pre-patch would wipeout the parent directory ok if you installed in the default location
c:\program files\sierra\half life - not ok if you installed in c:\half life

thankfully Ive never uninstalled half life

 

[Silent_Buddha]

If BG3 would have ToEE's tactical round break-down it'd be perfect. They wouldn't even need to add story IMHO. If you have that amount of finegrained control, mages become invaluable and accessible from level 1 on. Counterspelling fe. is fully left out of BG for I don't know what reason, but's essential for a spell-caster.

The realtime/pause to issue commands system that they use would likely have made counterspelling rather clumsy.

While I loved Baldur's Gate, I absolutely hated the realtime nature of combat. It would have been such a better game if combat had been turn based or simultaneous turn based, IMO. But the trend in games at the time was for more "action" oriented gameplay with less focus on tactics or fine grained control.

Regards,
SB

 

[Richard]

True, still you could trigger auto-pause at end of round to simulate turn-based combat. Of course, AD&D not being turn-based at its core (unlike D&D 3.0) meant it was always an approximation. IWD2 which used D&D 3.5 was much more similar.

ToEE is still the best D&D tactical experience one can have without physically rolling dice. Shame about the bugs though.

 

[Davros]

speaking of turn based combat, Anachronox is now on gog - yay

 

[John Reynolds]

ToEE is still the best D&D tactical experience one can have without physically rolling dice. Shame about the bugs though.

ToEE was one of the best turn-based tactical computer games, period. And Co8 addressed a lot of the bugs with their updates.

Myth 2 would wipe your entire C: drive regardless of where it was installed. The publisher did a recall but I kept my original copy and just manually uninstalled it once I was done.

 

[homerdog]

I find Steam, as far as I know (don't have it installed) a bit intrusive in the way it forces you to be online to play single player games like Skyrim, for instance. Sometimes your router can stop working, other times you can lose the signal if you are too far away. Things like that.

Offline mode? This comes up often; I don't think many people are aware of that feature in Steam.