With Baldur's Gate III right around the corner, coming from none other than Divinity: Original Sin II developers, Larian Studios, it seems l𒅌ike the perfect time to get knee-deep in the cult🌳 classic RPGs that spawned in the 90s.
They're avaiಌlable on Steam in the form of enhanced ꦑversions that were released in 2013, but there's plenty of details that you may not have known about this series. With that mind, here are ten interesting tidbits of trivia.
10 ♍ There Are Thღree Baldur's Gate Novelizations
The Baldur's Gate series became a cult classic, netting itself an enhanced remaster nearly a decade ago in 2013 to further c🎃ritical acclaim. It is no surprise then that the series managed to garner three novelizations.
First, there was the simply titled Baldur's Gate, releasing in 1999, followed by Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn in 2000, both of which were written by Philip Athans. Then, in 2001, Drew Karpyshyn helmed Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal
9 Baldur's Gate Is Set In The Dungeons & Dragons Campaign, The Forgotten Realms ♎ 🐭
Dungeons and Dragons has its own fair share of computer games and Baldur's Gate is amongst this expansive roster, with the series 🏅being set in the Forgotten Realms which is a high fantasy campaign.
The two games were based on a variant of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition, with publisher💟 Interplay Ent☂ertainment having the license to do so. This can be seen on the box art, with Forgotten Realms usually finding itself in smaller print near the main title.
8 𒐪 🦄 Baldur's Gate Was Developed By Mass Effect And Dragon Age Team, BioWare
It may come as a surprise that the developers behind Baldur's Gate were the famous, now-EA-owned company, BioWare, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:who made 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect, and the beloved Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
As such, their Star Wars venture wasn't their first licensed work, and their roots in the RPG scene date back to an incredibly beloved cult classic that has often acted as a🧸n inspiration for many entries into the genre to this day.
7 Baldur's Gate Was Originally Going ♊To Be Ported To The PlayStati🐬on
The first Baldur's Gate was released in 1998 ♛for PC and in 2000 for Mac OS, never seeing the light of day on consoles. 15 years later, in 2013, an enhanced edition of both games was brought to fruition by the ex-BioWare alumni-helmed studio, Beamdog.
How✨ever, whilst this classi🌠c RPG was a PC exclusive, that wasn't the intention, as originally,
6 The Series Received A Comic-🔯Book Spin-Off ꦿ
Not long after release, Baldur's Gate and its sequel, as well as its expansions, were adapted in the form of novels and met to a lukewarm reception, but that wasn't the end of the run for this video-game series, as a comic run was issued, dubbed Legends of Baldur's Gate.
These came not long after the enhanced edition of the original two games, in 2014, running through to early 2015. The original game, at launch in 1998, was also promoted with a comic of its own, aptly titled Baldur's Gate.
5 Imoen Was Added Extremely Late In Developme𓆉nt
In your travels in the world of Baldur's Gate, you🅰 likely came across a woman known as Imoen, and there might be something that seems particularly off about her, and if you cau🔥ght it, you'd be right.
She wasn't added until far later in the game's development when the developers noticed that, had players not acce🎃pted the aid of Xzar or Montaron, they'd be left stranded on their lonesome, so Iomen was implemented as a solution, buဣt they did not have time to add voice over,
4 Atari Wanted Obsidian To Make Bal𒊎dur's Gate III
Obsidian Entertainment, , who recently released The Outer Worlds, were asked by Atari to make a follow-up to Baldur's Gate II. The studio is made up primarily𝔍 of ex-Black-Islꦫe-Studios developers, who worked on the original Fallout.
They too, at the time of the isometric, turn-based Fallout games, were asked to work on a sequel, and they undertook this, calling their continuation The Black Hound, whilst also working on Fallout: Van Buren. Neither games released, however.
3 In The First Game, You Can Kill Morentherene In A Singular ཧShot
Given that Baldur's Gate is a Dungeons & Dragons game, it's only fitting that the series features dragons, and in the first game, there's an optional foe in the Siege of Dragonspear expansioဣn called♔ Morentherene.
The reason you'd kill this foe, rather than sneaking past them, is to nab the Dragon Scales, but rather than indulging in a𝔍 long-winded battle,
2 Beamdog Conta🙈cted The Developers Behind The Famous BG1 NPC Mod For Its Inclusion In The Enhanced Edition
Beamdog, the aforementioned studio made up of ex-Bioware developers♏, were the ones who brought Baldur's Gate to the modern-day with the enhanced edition, and a lot changed in this 🥀transition.
However, they in🦄tended to draw from the community even more by means of including the beloved and famous BG1 NPC Mod as a standard component of the game, intending to ask permission from the developers behind it,
1 B🔥aldur Gate III's Trailer Featured Spelljammer
As mentioned prior, Baldur's Gate III is being developed by the team who worked on Divinity: Original Sin II, Larian Studios. In the trailer that dropped, we got a glimpse of various Lovecraftian, tentacle-infested beings, wi🦋th♒ one floating around in the sky.
, which is a spaceship helmed by the mind flayers in the Dungeons & Dragons campaign, Spelljammer. This was a campaign that merged both sci-fi and fantasy, and so Baldur's Gate III could see elements of both 🦂genres bl🦄eed into its development and narrative.