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Atari plans to revisit the likes of Baldur's Gate, Dungeons & Dragons, Neverwinter Nights and Test Drive Unlimited, but not in the next 12 months.
"You will hear more from these but not today, because we're focused on 2009," Infogrames president Phil Harrison told hacks assembled at a press event this afternoon.
Atari last month published the Storm of the Zehir NWN expansion in Europe, but it's been a while since the other three showed their heads.
Big Phil's press conference also included an early-09 pledge for retail versions of Sam & Max: Season Two on PC and Wii, while Ready 2 Rumble: Revolution for Wii, by AKI Corp, will be released in March.
The press conference is ongoing. We'll let you know more as it develops.
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PearOfAnguish
02/12/08 @ 15:26
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Give Baldur's Gate to Bethesda so we can have Baldur's Gate 3 in 3D.
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Pinewood_Groves
02/12/08 @ 15:27
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I'm glad they're putting Baldur's Gate on hold to make way for more important franchises, like the Wii Ready 2 Rumble game.
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Kazzahdrane
02/12/08 @ 15:28
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By the time they bring back Baldur's Gate we'll probably have Dragon Age...
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spudsbuckley
02/12/08 @ 15:48
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Just make BG3 with the Infinity engine.
It'll be better than 90% of the dross currently being churned out by devs. |
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hiddenranbir
02/12/08 @ 16:47
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"Give Baldur's Gate to Bethesda....."
God no. BG was all about strong single player narrative. Bethesda can't do that. |
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Der_tolle_Emil
02/12/08 @ 17:02
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Test Drive Unlimited did have its fair share of flaws but it was still an incredible game. I had so much fun with it, a completely unique experience. Probably the first in the series that really earns the name Test Drive - I've spent countless hours just driving around in new cars around the island just for fun.
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PearOfAnguish
02/12/08 @ 17:32
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""Give Baldur's Gate to Bethesda....."
God no. BG was all about strong single player narrative. Bethesda can't do that. " I hardly think the narrative is important. Its graphics need updating, it would work really well in a 3D engine, and hopefully it can have multiplayer too. Maybe some kind of deathmatch arena mode. |
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ChthonicEcho
02/12/08 @ 18:48
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PearOfAnguish is either a troll, a Bethesda fanboy or joking. Hopefully, it's the third option. Baldur's Gate, in Bethesda's hands, would simply become Oblivion with guns. No, wait. Just another Oblivion, my bad.
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"I hardly think the narrative is important. Its graphics need updating, it would work really well in a 3D engine, and hopefully it can have multiplayer too. Maybe some kind of deathmatch arena mode."
Great ideas, hopefully we can also get what BG has always been missing - waggle controls and QTEs. |
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GamesConnoisseur
02/12/08 @ 19:40
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Baldur's Gate 3 for DS in 2D with beautiful artwork, or heck even in XBL or PSN would be stonking great! 3D of Baldur's Gate is NWN which is never the same. You cannot capture the essence of the background art in texture mapping over 3D objects in the same way!!
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Unless they get Bioware and Obsidian to work on a new Baldur's Gate I'd imagine it's going to be rubbish. They're probably just going to make a new hack'n'slash game in the style of the console versions of BG - which will be nowhere near as good as the original PC versions.
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lols, BG to Bethesda, that made my day.
As others said, Bethesda makes well looking, horribly boring games with little to no narrative. A big huge at least in my books. Another thing is, can Atari live up to BG's legend? Well, probably not given all the expectations people (myself included) are going to have about that one, but how close can they come anyway?
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I must say it's more than pleasing to see all the comments on Bethesda on here. I was starting to think there was almost no one left with any taste and demand for depth - what with all the tens, NMA-bashing and what have you flying around.
Personally I think Bethesda hit their all-time low with Fallout 3. I'm a bit too tired to think of anything half-clever to say at the moment, but I very much agree that Bethesda does empty, depthless, soulless, narrative and atmospherically highly lacking games. Looking back at games such as Planescape: Torment and its likes, it's embarrassing how far behind they are, this much farther in time. Hell, if I'd really want a proper, highly immersive RPG-experience, I'd probably do better to boot up any of the old classics I never got around to back then, than playing many of the newer titles around. I'm still hoping for Dragon Age to be good, although sadly, it does look a bit generic. Hopefully Bioware has something up their sleeve, as we all know they are still ace. |
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infoxicated
03/12/08 @ 08:53
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More Test Drive would be welcome - I loved TDU, although it got far too easy later on.
A Baldur's Gate like the first PS2 one would be great, too - the co-op play was brilliant fun and probably the most time me and my girlfriend have spent playing any game together outside of TimeSplitters 2. |
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The problem with all new RPG's is that they never offer proper party management and control. Like NWN and every RPG post, party control is always done through crappy AI. FFXII's gambit/macro system was probably the closest to a new age party control system - but that had it's flaws as well. I don't want to control a single character - I want to manage a company of heroes :)
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"Like NWN and every RPG post, party control is always done through crappy AI."
You can completely turn off the party AI in Neverwinter Nights 2. It's great that it's there (and it's not that crappy - bit basic, but it does the job) for encounters with inferior foes. With a single button, you can turn it off and control everyone yourself, and even pause the game and queue orders. Works like a treat. |
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spudsbuckley
03/12/08 @ 09:27
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Shame the NWN games aren't a patch on the BG/IWD games.
As i said already, use the Infinity engine and make a true sequel to BG 2. As much as i love Bethesda's style of game, they're barely RPGS..They're more like open-world FPS games with an RPG mechanic tacked on. |
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Sean.Aaron
03/12/08 @ 11:21
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Personally the main thing I'd like to see from Atari is some kind of release of arcade-quality ports of their pre-Warners Atari Games buyout catalog (for the Wii, natch): Centipede, Asteroids, etc.
That would be awesome; the Wiimote would be a decent substitute for a trackball, I think. |
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metalangel
04/12/08 @ 13:46
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More TDU (with more, better bikes and a far better "server" system please... getting onto the same freeride server as a friend is extremely hit and miss, even if you have clicked on their name) and proper D&D (so I can play a proper drow and not just simulate a dark elf into being one in Oblivion) please!
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For the most part I'm happy to leave Baldur's Gate where it is. The story wrapped up nicely, I have nothing but fond memories of it and do not wish to have them sullied by a shit "reinvention".
And there's the other part of me which demands more MINSC! SWORDS NOT WORDS! Honestly, my biggest hope for a revival of this old school style of RPG is Age of Decadence. Providing it ever gets released. |
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