Return to Baldurs Gate?

[BlackLion]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.352486-BioWare-Teases-New-Baldurs-Gate-Something

Honestly, sounds sketch to me, but it still makes me feel all tingly just to think about.

[Porkolt]

Didn't they make that horrid BG console game once?

[Pandip]

Didn't they make that horrid BG console game once?

They made two mildly entertaining hack-and-slash dungeon crawls.

[Spiffy Has]

I could never finish Baldur's Gate. I don't get what the hype is about.

[The Old Hack]

I don't get

We know. We love you anyway. >.>

[Nuclear Catastrophe]

"Baldurs Gate 1" I cannot speak for.

"Baldurs Gate 2" is one of the finest games I've ever played.  It has thousands of sub quests which are tertiary to the main quest, uses the drow PROPERLY in a genuinely scary fashion, and has quite possibly the most intimidating villain of all time in Jon Irenicus.  Can't recommend it highly enough.  And its 'add on' (Throne of Bhaal) is epic in all respects.

Any sequel that can remain true to Baldurs Gate's heritage is undoubtedly a very fine thing indeed.  Or it could crap all over the whole affair.  But it's something to watch out for for the NwN sports fans.

[BlackLion]

RPS Has a bit more info
 
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/29/new-baldurs-gate-website-suggests-remake-sequel/#more-96651
 

A new Baldur’s Gate game? Wuh? That’s the news that greets my eyes when I look at Eurogamer. This is, apparently, coming from former BioWare developer Trent Oster, who worked on the original BG, as well as the first Neverwinter Nights. His new company, Beamdog, is a digital distribution platform, brought to wider attention recently via the release of MDK 2 HD, and this, GameBanshee claims, will be the source of new Forgotten Realms chat-n-chopping. And how do we know any of this is happening? A Baldur’s Gate website.
 
The rights to the games are owned by Atari, who have spent the last few years re-releasing the series, along with NWN and others, in about 30,000 different packages. It’s clear that the company has been trying to make the best of owning all the BioWare classics for quite a while, and in fact back in 2008 there were rumours they were going to add to these franchises.
 
Currently the website offers very little. Just a BG-ish image, the theme, and the quote,

[INDENT]“The Lord of Murder shall perish, but in his doom he shall spawn a score of mortal progeny, chaos will be sown by their passage.” So sayeth the wise Alaundo[/INDENT]Everything else at this point is speculation. It’s possible this will be another HD remake, like MDK2, and that would be no unwelcome thing. The original games were super-low-res, built in the aged version of the Infinity Engine. (I remember attending the announcement of the existence of Baldur’s Gate 2, and the accompanying excitement that it would offer more than 800×600. Also I am old.)
 
Dig into the site’s source code and you’ll see:

[INDENT]< -- February 28, 2012 -->[/INDENT][INDENT]< -- Shadowy Figure- Raise Dead : Infinity Engine -->[/INDENT][INDENT]< -- For years, I clung to the memory of it. Then the memory of the memory. -->[/INDENT][INDENT]< -- And then... it returned. Better than it was before. -->[/INDENT][INDENT]< -- Pore over the tapestries and works of art hanging from our walls if you wish, Child of Bhaal... perhaps you will find a clue. But patience, ah... patience would reveal it all. -->[/INDENT]RPS READERS: SPECULATE!
 

I checked the Website, which can be found here and there are new blurbs in the source code, which seem to update daily. They all seem to be quotes from the game. Current blurbs are:
 

 
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[Yalta]

BG1 and then BG2 were undoubtbly the best single player PC I have ever played.

[BlackLion]

A Steam 'complete' edition has been confirmed, but that is not related to this current teaser, states Beamdog. Beamdog will announce what it is..whenever. No updates in the websites sourcecode yet today.

[DangerousDan]

if anyone would like to tred the ground torment laid, that would be great thanks :))

[Porkolt]

And I hope they do.

Though I suppose coming up with an actually intriguing 'normal' fantasy plotline like BG1 (you know, not like Torment with the philosophical connotations) would also be refreshing, we haven't seen much of that in the last few years.

[Wild Card]

It's not a new Baldur's Gate game but for those who are looking for an NWN PW2 to try out there is one called The Sword Coast Chronicles. It was reccomended to me by a trusted source and it seems like it has a good player count not to mention an option for underdark characters. Here are their boards for those who might be interested http://bgtscc1.com/forum/index.php

[mucka1916]

Any who own and wish replay BG 1&2 with soo much added content should check this out.

http://www.shsforums.net/files/category/72-big-world-project/

Definately worth it!

[BlackLion]

A 24 hour countdown has finally appeared on the Baldurs Gate website, so we'll know whats going down by this time tomarrow.

In the meantime, The Escapist has some giddy and not-at-all-based-on-fact predictions of BG3

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/116330-The-Baldurs-Gate-Countdown-Begins

Edit: Actually the counter reads 6 hrs and 13 minutes so we'll know whats happening by approximatly 3pm EST

http://baldursgate.com/

[el groso]

I'm so excited about this...