OT: They shouldn't be allowed to ruin some franchises

VPaulus · Post by **VPaulus** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:11 pm

You mean active pause... that's more bearable.
Baldur's Gate, for example, had an active pause which permitted some party coordination.

huertgenwald · Post by **huertgenwald** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:14 pm

BG, i'm suddenly feeling so old

VPaulus · Post by **VPaulus** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:40 pm

Glad I didn't mentioned Pong or Space Invaders.

Wait a minute! Now it's me who's feeling old.....

Rood · Post by **Rood** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:53 pm

BG was absolutley superb, regardless of how old it makes you feel

I wonder if I could get it to work again on Vista 64 bit.

huertgenwald · Post by **huertgenwald** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:42 pm

According to Google it should. Try :

http://forums.techguy.org/games/822487- ... -gate.html

VPaulus · Post by **VPaulus** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:28 pm

Yes some were able to do it, although you've to force compatibility mode, like huertgenwald mentioned. I've also saw mentioned in the GOG forum to disable UAC.
I've played in the beginning of the year, BG with the Trilogy mod, which joins both Baldur's Gate games. This way you will also play BG with BG2 engine.
4 months of intense gameplay, is all I can say. The graphics didn't seem very aged. The gameplay is still superb, IMO, specially when compared with current standards. If they release a BG3 with the same 10 years graphics, it would be an instant buy for me. But it seems Bioware is more interested in awesome buttons and Dragon Age 2 games.

Rood · Post by **Rood** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:36 am

I tried to get NwN to run on my PC but couldn't get it running (not sure if I have the latest patches though).
I do have UAC activated, and intend to keep it that way, the combination of Vista x64 and UAC is mostly deadly to legacy games though.

The BG trilogy mod sounds like great fun, well will try to get it running during the weekend, thanks for all the info/help.

VPaulus · Post by **VPaulus** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:15 pm

In that case, I suggest you follow this tutorial in how to install Trilogy and the other essential but optional mods.
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/baldur_s_ga ... mods/page1
You've also the Bigger Fonts mod if youi intend to play in higher resolutions. It's not perfect but it can help you.
http://www.shsforums.net/topic/38626-bi ... -ie-games/

VPaulus · Post by **VPaulus** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:46 pm

That's what Bioware produces today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYh4NugS ... ure=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV97ozaD4vs
I hardly believe they once produced Baldur's Gate.

Post by **pipfromslitherine** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:02 pm

I love DA2 and I love BG, if for very different reasons. Both great games IMO.

Personally I'd love for us at Slitherine to do a combat-focused fantasy RPG game, but it's a pretty tall order

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Cheers

Pip

VPaulus · Post by **VPaulus** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:22 pm

I liked DA but almost didn't touched DA2. It seemed quite a few steps back from DA.
But I'll give it another opportunity one day.
Even DA seemed inferior to BG. In a certain we all expect and like different things in games.

Quite interesting this small interview about the music of XCOM: Enemy Unknown
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/ ... known.aspx

Post by **pipfromslitherine** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:25 pm

DA2 is about story. I loved my guys - I still miss them

. You are entirely correct that it's all subjective when it comes to games!

Cheers

Pip

Tarrak · Post by **Tarrak** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:11 am

DA is imho a great game. The story is maybe not as long as BG but a lot more intense imho. It isn't based on the D&D word and game system but it isn't necessarily bad. I quite llike both the DA world and the combat system.

DA2, while still having very good story, was clearly a step down in all other aspects. The fighting felt like playing a beat'em'up game and not a RPG, the UI was totally strange, you easily notice the lazy console port, enemies spawning in fights randomly behind you was rendering any tactical approaches pointless and their massive reuse of locations was getting boring very fast ... but enough ranting here.

All in all Bioware is still delivering quite good games unlike a lot other game producers.

VPaulus · Post by **VPaulus** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:21 pm

Julian Gollop, creator of XCOM, calls FPS direction 'disappointing':
http://www.shacknews.com/article/72085/ ... appointing

Schneides42 · Post by **Schneides42** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:04 am

While not a former computer game (at least not to my knowledge), what I would love to see remade is the old Avalon Hill game Squad Leader. I do not like the first person shooters and games such as Panzer Corps seem to have done a great job in transferring such board games to the computer and online.

Cheers

Craig

VPaulus · Post by **VPaulus** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:14 am

Actually there was a computer Squad Leader from Hasbro.
But the only resemblance with the former game was the name.

Schneides42 · Post by **Schneides42** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:50 am

Now that you remind me, I do recall reading about it (probably on this forum somewhere). I am glad that games like Panzer Corps are doing well, so hopefully someone will look into a more accurate version of SL.

Cheers

Craig

huertgenwald · Post by **huertgenwald** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:57 am

For those interested in the new Jagged Alliance :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFbHN0F0XDw

Longasc · Post by **Longasc** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:47 pm

huertgenwald wrote:For those interested in the new Jagged Alliance :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFbHN0F0XDw

Very interesting, thank you.

Rood · Post by **Rood** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 4:32 pm

I had an interesting weekend looking through dozens of boxes, drawers and mostly finding dust, a few Baldur's Gate CD's but no Shadows of Amn and none of the expansions...I did find Panzer General though and Diablo, damn that was long ago.
And after the dust settled I found NWN 2 which I never really played as I can't remember much of it.

So I installed it, and after a long time of patching it actually worked (trick seems to be for x64 to not install it in the Program Files (x86) directory.

I also found out rather quickly why I never finished NWN as the pathfinding is abysmal and your party really needs to be tightly controlled all the time. Story wise it seems so so as there's a lot of sidequests to do before you can get to the main quest.
And as always with DnD games you really need to plan your char ahead else your pretty much screwed (which I solved by using the console and a lot of cheat commands).

Well it's decent enough to pass the time until the next DLC arrives

PS Jagged Alliance looks really good, gonna keep a close eye on that one.