Damn right! Hopefully, after Beamdog resolves their legal issues, will be the enhanced edition "enhanced" with more of the original.
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OS X Baldurs Gate Enhanced
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Damn right! Hopefully, after Beamdog resolves their legal issues, will be the enhanced edition "enhanced" with more of the original.
But Apple does not have a pattern of buying out (small) companies for the sake of the name or brand alone. Apple strategically buys out because of the content or crucial software that those smaller companies do have. In this case, I was theorizing that Apple could bid on certain key game franchises from Atari that have a strong fanbase or large following (e.g the Baldur's Gate series). Not that Apple would actually buy out a defunct Atari brand itself.
Provided that they don't end up bidding an exorbitant amount, I could see the move as bolstering Apple's gaming arm. In the near future, this is something that Apple needs to do, unless Apple likes the idea of Google attempting to annihilate and wipe out iOS mobile gaming altogether. Do remember that Google has already signaled bold plans to bolster its own mobile gaming division. Google doesn't just want to play "catch up" to iOS mobile gaming success. Google wants to BURY Apple's iOS mobile gaming success.
Atari is just a publisher and has been that way for a long time now (even back in the original BG days). If Apple were going to get serious about gaming with a purchase, they would be more likely to buy a developer, not a publisher.
Damn right! Hopefully, after Beamdog resolves their legal issues, will be the enhanced edition "enhanced" with more of the original.
FWIW I had no issues completing BG:EE on OS X, and I did every sidequest I could find. Granted I missed the Firebead quest...
Is BGEE as "linear" as Diablo 3? Or do you have the option to choose different quests, which may or may not take you towards the same ending?
There is one ending, with Chapters, like Acts in Diablo, and a main storyline. But it is a lot less linear, you have acess of most of the world from the get-go and there are TONS of sidequests.
If you haven't checked out the Baldur's Gate Reloaded mod for NWN2, then you should go get it. All I can say is, "Wow!" That is the real Enhanced Edition.
+1 on the GOG recommendation, as well. If you need NWN2, you can get it DRM-free there...
+1 on the GOG recommendation, as well. If you need NWN2, you can get it DRM-free there...
The IPs are being auctioned off individually and so once purchased will no longer have any association with Atari itself. As for the Atari name which may be left with no games associated with it after all is said and done here, it is hard to say if anyone would be interested in starting over using the name. Maybe, who knows?
So it does not seem there is much risk of any worthwhile IPs winding up bundled in a sale with the Atari name and then being left to waste but again, what ultimately happens does remain to be seen. We won't have to wait too long to find out in any case.
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More good news! Thank you. I'm glad to hear that.
I'm another one that goes wherever the story and quests I happen to run into in my travels takes me. I do not deliberately scour everyplace or consult guides to find and complete every single quest available. I suppose that improves my chances for missing some bugs but that works for me!
Baldur's Gate is an epic story of note and worth ... every Diablo game is a shallow clicky-clicky-clicky fest of an action-RPG.