New Baldur’s Gate game confirmed

The Eccentric Gamer writes: "Beamdog has confirmed that their mysterious project called 'Adventure Y' is in fact a new Baldur’s Gate game. Here is everything we know so far including timeline and engine used."

[Rimeskeem]

I have been waiting so long for another one.

[CptEccentric]

Me too man, me too! Cant believe its finally happening. Sooooo happy right now :)

[Rimeskeem]

I literally screamed "FINALLY!" after i saw this

[thekhurg]

I'd be happier if they licensed the Divinity Original Sin engine or something. Visually improve the animations and game world please.

[CorndogBurglar]

METHINKS I JUST CREAMED ME KNICKERS!!!

[Sillicur]

YES, so many times yes!!!

[CptEccentric]

Could not have said it better! One day we shall bask in the glory of a truly great RPG again

[CptEccentric]

@sckipt, Im glad I could bring you the good news :) I hope everyone gets to see this that love the franchise as much as i do :)

[Relientk77]

Sweet it's been awhile

[CptEccentric]

Indeed it has, such a long time. I actually replayed BG2 + Throne of Baal during the past holidays.

[joab777]

Has anyone played on android? How good is it? I am playing kotor on my S5 and it's amaazing. I've literally never played a game on my phone and never thought I would but I'm hooked.

[gangsta_red]

I loved the first and the expansion game. The voice acting was superb and everything about this game was top notch.

I always wanted this game to come to consoles but sadly all we got where Gauntlet clones with this name slapped on.

[Anon1974]

I did as well, but I have to say I enjoyed the two Baldur's Gate console games. The Champions of Norrath games were better, but for a straight forward, co-op dungeon crawl I rather enjoyed the Baldur's Gate games. There really wasn't that much out there for co-op dungeon crawlers this past gen which I found disappointing. I didn't realize that Diablo 3 had couch co-op until recently so I picked it up on one of the PS4 flash sales, but I haven't had a chance to try it out yet.

I'm excited about a new Baldur's Gate game though in the old style. Just playing through Legend of Grimrock 2 which is a throwback to the old Eye of the Beholder type games. I remember getting Baldur's Gate at a launch party early here in Edmonton where the game was made. Looking forward to diving in again. Just brings back all the old feels. :)

[gangsta_red]

The console Baldur's Gate were good games, and by no means am I knocking them. It's just that I was looking forward and expecting to play the same type of game style I played on the PC.

I remember even telling some friends on what to expect when the game comes to consoles. Yea, I could have used the internet more back then...

[DougLord]

OMG OMG OMG!! Not much could make me this excited!!!!

[All_Consoles]

What? First pillars of eternity and tides of numenera and now baldurs gate 3? CRPGs are back

[cfeste]

Yyyyyyyeeeeeessssss! The Sword f*ing Coast!!

[Ashlen]

Wow, that's great.

I still consider Balder's Gate to be the best D&D CRPG's of all time, sure there have been newer rpgs that have surpassed it in many ways, but that game when it came out was just amazing.

[CorndogBurglar]

In my opinion, the Icewind Dale games were better, simply because you could create your entire party from scratch instead of just creating one character and picking up pre-made characters in game like Baldur's Gate.

Both are amazing though!

[FullmetalRoyale]

Thanks for sharing.

[maniacmayhem]

I am pretty sure you could also create your own party members in Baldur's Gate. I specifically remember doing so because I left a lot of pre-made characters behind when playing through the game.

[DeusEx-Machina]

Well name me interested!

(btw looking very much forward to Pillars of Eternity and Torment: Tides of Numenera)

[wazgrel]

I really hope they make the UI cleaner. Just like Fallout 1 and 2, all of the Infinity Engine games have very cryptic UI, with a lot of simple features missing like mousing over a skill and seeing what it does.

I don't even mind the layout, it's just those 2 blocky things on each side of the screen take up so much space. Or being unable to see health of your companions because their portrait happens to have red colors on it, which blends in with damage indicator.

I tried to play Baldurs Gate: Enhanced Edition several times and every time got annoyed by UI and several other minors things. Finishing Fallout 1 and 2 felt like a chore with their slow engines and giant illogical UIs, but Baldurs Gate is even worse. :(

[vega275]

Please....this has to be a dream come true. As im reading this tears of joy are streaming down my face. Thank you thank you so much. Cant wait

[Nwah]

Judging by the screenshots, it might as well be an expansion.

[spence52490]

OMG!!!!!!!

[Myzery]

It's nice that the series is getting some love, but I have to hold my hype. The reason for that is beamdog has only remastered other developers games. Sure, the remastered were well done but copying/updating another's game, and truly creating your own from scratch are two incredibly different things.

[Anon1974]

But these are guys that all worked on the originals. They're simply no longer with Bioware.

[Myzery]

That I was unaware of. Thanks for the info, and consider me a great deal more excited now.

[poseiden21]

probably going to be dumbed down and not a true RPG.

[Maxor]

I want another BG game. But not from these guys. They're cash garbing hacks without any real ability what so ever since their re-release of BG was buggy as hell. The people with real talent, the real developers, are releasing Pillars of Eternity this year which should be a spiritual successor to BG.

These guys, they're just standing on the shoulders of giants and asking you to pay $25 for mod of a mod.

[bananaboats]

Now this is news. It has been far too long.

"Go for the eyes Boo!" (in Minsc voice)

[Revengeance]

Serious question for Baldur's Gate fans:

Did you need to have any knowledge about the Dungeons and Dragons game prior to playing this game?

[maniacmayhem]

No, but it helps, also you need to know about stats, armor and perks from D&D books, because I remember them being different from how regular RPG's are.