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Title: Baldur's Gate 3/Neverwinter Nights 2?
Post by: Grey Wolf on July 19, 2004, 04:04:39 pm: http://home.comcast.net/~stesergio/pcgamer.html
What do you think? Is PC Gamer lying? Or do we really get to see these games? And if it's true, who's making Baldur's Gate 3, as Black Isle is dead?
Title: Baldur's Gate 3/Neverwinter Nights 2?
Post by: Ace on July 19, 2004, 04:24:25 pm: What gets me is: Why is it called Baldur's Gate 3 if it's set in the Dalelands?

Shouldn't it be called Shadowdale or something? :p

That would be like something called Los Angeles 3 being set in St. Louis...
Title: Baldur's Gate 3/Neverwinter Nights 2?
Post by: Rictor on July 19, 2004, 04:29:32 pm: coool.

I heard rumours that Interplay was working on Baldur's Gate 3 but canceled it at the same time they canceled Fallout 3.
Title: Baldur's Gate 3/Neverwinter Nights 2?
Post by: SadisticSid on July 19, 2004, 04:48:02 pm: I think from the numbers it's an old issue from before Interplay got wiped out - IIRC no-one's grabbed the BG license
Title: Baldur's Gate 3/Neverwinter Nights 2?
Post by: Grey Wolf on July 19, 2004, 07:38:54 pm: Actually, no. According to the numbers, that would be the issue for September. And the license is now owned by Atari.
http://pc.ign.com/objects/674/674384.html
Title: Baldur's Gate 3/Neverwinter Nights 2?
Post by: Thorn on July 19, 2004, 10:01:29 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Ace
What gets me is: Why is it called Baldur's Gate 3 if it's set in the Dalelands?

Shouldn't it be called Shadowdale or something? :p

That would be like something called Los Angeles 3 being set in St. Louis...

It may build on the original BG plot. Throne of Bhaal didnt take place anywhere in the city iirc...
Title: Baldur's Gate 3/Neverwinter Nights 2?
Post by: Jonathan_S47 on July 19, 2004, 10:56:19 pm: True.

However the Throne of Bhaal is supposed to be the end of the original story. So I wonder what the plot for this one will be.
Title: Baldur's Gate 3/Neverwinter Nights 2?
Post by: Fury on July 19, 2004, 11:28:23 pm: Quote
Atari also assured us that new Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter Nights titles would get the attention of a top-level developer.

It's just ominous... :nervous:

In any case, I am looking forward to both titles. :)
I own BG1, 2 and NWN and all their expansions. Great games. :nod:
Title: Baldur's Gate 3/Neverwinter Nights 2?
Post by: Thorn on July 19, 2004, 11:43:34 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Mr. Fury

It's just ominous... :nervous:

In any case, I am looking forward to both titles. :)
I own BG1, 2 and NWN and all their expansions. Great games. :nod:

Icewind Dale, IWD: Heart of Winter, Icewind Dale 2, and Planescape: Torment are good ones to pick up if you liked BG. I got the IWD series as a boxed set, came with two bonus disks of media and a soundtrack. Torment is a bargain bin game... could easily get it for 5 bucks.
Title: Baldur's Gate 3/Neverwinter Nights 2?
Post by: SadisticSid on July 20, 2004, 05:30:57 am: Quote
Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
Actually, no. According to the numbers, that would be the issue for September. And the license is now owned by Atari.
http://pc.ign.com/objects/674/674384.html

Depends on whether it's the UK issue of PCG or not - and given the articles you cite all came out in April, it could well be :)
Title: Baldur's Gate 3/Neverwinter Nights 2?
Post by: Grey Wolf on July 20, 2004, 01:30:33 pm: Actually, that's not the page I intended to link to. How odd. The one I meant to link to had far less information on it. The only real data on it was the publisher.

And anyway, if you go over to http://nwvault.ign.com/comments/1090193187,28678,.shtml, where I found the picture, you'll notice it says September issue.
Title: Baldur's Gate 3/Neverwinter Nights 2?
Post by: Liberator on July 21, 2004, 02:20:47 pm: Bioware has said that they will not make a NWN2. Now whether Atari is trying to milk a rock I don't know. They'd be better off making a fourth expansion.

BG3 is just wrong in so many ways.
Title: Baldur's Gate 3/Neverwinter Nights 2?
Post by: redsniper on July 21, 2004, 03:31:49 pm: Bioware's next NWN-like game is Dragon Age. It's not NWN2 but more of a spiritual successor. You can find more about it on NWvault if anyone cares. :p
Title: Baldur's Gate 3/Neverwinter Nights 2?
Post by: Grey Wolf on July 21, 2004, 10:32:11 pm: Or hang out at the forum at Bioware's site. Only fun to hang out at those forums pre-release though.