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Baldur's Gate - Made Dungeons & Dragons cool again
December 22nd, 2018, 19:24
PC Gamer looks back at Baldur's Gate:
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20 years ago, Baldur's Gate made Dungeons & Dragons cool againThanks henriquejr!
Looking back at a pivotal moment for computer RPGs, D&D, and a little company called BioWare.
It's sometimes said that Baldur's Gate made RPGs cool again. But it had plenty of competition for that honor. 1998 landed in the half of the decade that gave us Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, a glimpse of another world in Final Fantasy VII (even if the original PC port was one of the worst things you could inflict on your computer that wasn't a virus), and saw Diablo hitting a level of success that continues echoing through the industry today.
A better claim is that it made Dungeons & Dragons cool again--that is almost impossible to deny. It both put the series back on track on PC, and ensured that much of what followed continued to owe a debt to those halcyon days of tabletop dice rolling.
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December 22nd, 2018, 23:02
It has ALWAYS been cool! (well, 1st edition, at least)
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December 22nd, 2018, 23:20
Lost track of how many times I replayed the whole series from the original releases all the way to the the enhanced editions. Also yes it made Dungeons & Dragons cool again.
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December 22nd, 2018, 23:30
BG did a comp to tell your BG "story" for the 20 year anniversary. Some fun to read tales
http://blog.beamdog.com/
http://blog.beamdog.com/
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December 23rd, 2018, 02:53
Dungeons and Dragons has always been great, all the way up to the third edition. After that, I stopped buying the books.
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December 23rd, 2018, 08:27
By that time T$R had a pretty shabby reputation, so it's more like BG filled a vacuum.
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December 23rd, 2018, 08:39
You mean, cool for gamer types, and intellectual types, fantasy types, and so on…D&D isn't considered "cool" by the mainstream. There is still an "outcast and/or nerdy" aura going on around it, IMHO
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December 23rd, 2018, 21:35
Originally Posted by Carnifex5th Edition D&D is fantastic. Hope to see a computer game that is true to 5E rules sometime in the next few years.
Dungeons and Dragons has always been great, all the way up to the third edition. After that, I stopped buying the books.
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December 23rd, 2018, 21:40
Originally Posted by Arkadia7Have you seen Joe Manganiello's D&D room in his old wine cellar? Do you know who he's married to? Let's see the coolest man in the world plays D&D. Oh, and I play D&D, so the second coolest person in the world plays
You mean, cool for gamer types, and intellectual types, fantasy types, and so on…D&D isn't considered "cool" by the mainstream. There is still an "outcast and/or nerdy" aura going on around it, IMHO
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