Baldur's Gate: Difference between revisions

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Baldur's Gate is a computer role-playing game set in the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting. It was the first released game to employ BioWare's Infinity Engine. It was both critically and commercially successful, and is credited for reviving the CRPG genre from a fallow period.

Histories[edit]

The CRPG Renaissance, Part 5: Fallout 2 and Baldur’s Gate — The Digital Antiquarian, by Jimmy Maher
Baldur's Gate — episode 233 of They Create Worlds podcast, by Alex Smith & Jeffrey Daum

Dreamcast (cancelled)[edit]

A Sega Dreamcast version was announced, planned for release in May 2000. Sega themselves were handling porting duties, and online multiplayer was supported. It was cancelled around August 2000.

PlayStation (cancelled)[edit]

A PS1 version was in development. An incomplete but fully playable build, dated 4th October 2000, was released by Hidden Palace on 24th December 2009.

Baldur's Gate (Oct 4, 2000 prototype) — Hidden Palace
Announcement of the prototype release — Hidden Palace
Discussion of the release on the Lost Levels forums
Footage of the PS1 version — uploaded by PtoPOnline
Discussion on NeoGAF forums, 2009
Discussion on Resetera forums, 2019

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 * [https://hiddenpalace.org/Baldur%27s_Gate_(Oct_4,_2000_prototype) Baldur's Gate (Oct 4, 2000 prototype)] — Hidden Palace
+* [https://hiddenpalace.org/News/Baldur Announcement of the prototype release] — Hidden Palace
 * [http://forums.lostlevels.org/viewtopic.php?t=2218 Discussion of the release] on the Lost Levels forums
 * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Hzf5KrK2A Footage of the PS1 version] — uploaded by PtoPOnline