Atari Hints At Plans For Baldur's Gate 3, NWN 2? 40
Deekin_Scalesinger writes "Seems Atari may have let the cat out of the bag when one of their staff mentioned upcoming sequels for both the Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights series in a posting on the official Atari forums. No ETA posted for either title, but any news is good news when it comes to Forgotten Realms games..." In related news, the Czech games magazine SCORE has its latest cover online, claiming Baldur's Gate III: Seven Gates Of Aznarr as the title, and back in the Atari forums, the spokesperson also notes: "Atari is the sole licensor of all D&D interactive properties. We could bring back Gold Box games if we were so inclined."
Another game company (Score:1, Funny)
And it becomes news.
So? Another Linux company.. (Score:3, Funny)
And it becomes news too.
Remember kiddies: This is "news for nerds", not "news for me, me, me!"
Actually, it's more like... (Score:1)
However, the "news" site also fails to mention what is contained in said update or where to get it from.
For Neverwinter Nights (Score:2)
Is this a sequel as in 'Neverwinter Nights 2' or just another expansion? Considering the sheer amount of (potential) content the original game had (read : downloadable mods) and its crazy history of delay after delay (I still remember the occasional joke made about it before its release during table-top RP sessi
Re:For Neverwinter Nights (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:For Neverwinter Nights (Score:3, Informative)
I guess it's possible that it could be done by someone else, but how long would it take and would it include the Aurora Toolset? I'm not holding my breat here.
If they are, it won't be bioware doing it (Score:5, Informative)
Their official forums have a flat-out denial [bioware.com] (Stanley Woo, 1/3rd down the thread). Which is quite a bit more substantive than the standard 'no comment' -- such as Mr Woo gives regarding KOTOR2 in his sig.
Bioware already has 3 titles in development (Jade Empire [bioware.com], and 2 new titles 'based on two new intellectual properties, created and owned by Bioware' -- press release [bioware.com]). I understand they've grown a bit over the last decade, but I doubt they have enough staff to do even 4 games simultaneously, let alone 5.
Besides, Bioware has been not-so-slowly backing away from the official campaign for NWN since it released (due the generally 'less positive' reactions of the vocal fans). Note how even the expansions didn't come close to touching that story, or that style of adventuring (hub style). I sincerely doubt they'd be picking that hot potato back up. Not to mention that the extra engineering they did to make their toolset doesn't seem to have earned them a corresponding reward from the market. I think they see themselves as better off spending that time crafting the incredible story and interactions people loved from BG(x) and KOTOR.
If Atari is doing the sequels -- who knows who'd they be tapping for the content work. Particularly since Atari nee Interplay closed [ign.com] Black Isle back in December (killing another sequel in the process: Fallout 3).
NWN2 potential (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:NWN2 potential (Score:5, Informative)
Re:In other news... (Score:1)
No NWN 2 (Score:5, Informative)
Georg Zoeller, Designer, Bioware:
"Combined with the fact that we are indeed not going to reveal NWN 2 on E3 (because we are not working on a sequel to NWN), and the other incorrect/badly researched "news" I found on this site ("Bioware is secretly working on BG3", "Bioware releases free community expansion pack", "Bioware announced they work on three original titles, NWN2?") it is pretty safe to say that you can disregard this newspost. I don't know what Trent really said, but whatever it was, it was almost certainly mangled up very badly in translation.
So again, we are not working on NWN2 and we are not working on another expansion pack for NWN, through we are working on other things to support NWN in the future (see Witch's Wake forum for details)."
Stanley Woo, QA, Bioware:
"Since we currently have no plans to make an NWN2, it would be highly unlikely that Trent would be talking about it at E3. This has been discussed on the HotU board as well, with the explanation being that the translation is incorrect. There has also been mention of GameStar being, perhaps, an unreliable source of accurate information."
Re:No NWN 2 (Score:1)
Re:No NWN 2 (Score:3, Informative)
Re:No NWN 2 (Score:2, Interesting)
Well, this part [bioware.com] at least is true; it was announced for quite a while beforehand, and finally released on March 24, 2004 [bioware.com].
Re:No NWN 2 (Score:2, Informative)
Re:No NWN 2 (Score:2, Interesting)
Posted 04/04/04 09:17:27 (GMT) by Georg Zoeller
"Guys, there is nothing new and exciting to say about this topic, but I rather have you speculating and discussing in this thread than closing it and spawn 5 new ones
So, our official answer is:
"We can't comment on this quite yet, out of courtesy to our publishing partner Atari. However, we can definitely say that we really appreciate the great members of the BioWare Community and our goal is to co
Re:No NWN 2 (Score:4, Interesting)
This does not contradict any previous statements."
Translation:
Bioware's been kicking around ideas in their forums for a 'Digital Download' service, which would let people buy new content and modules online to expand Neverwinter Nights. That's what they're probably talking about here, not that they're making an NWN sequel; hence 'this does not contradict any previous statements' jiving with both 'we're pondering DD content' and 'there is no NWN2 from us'.
NWN2 would probably be Atari's bizniz, passed on to some other developer and I doubt it'd have the same extensibility NWN has.
Re:No NWN 2 (Score:2)
Baldur's Gate 3 (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Baldur's Gate 3 (Score:4, Interesting)
I would love to see a Planescape:Torment sequel though. I was thinking something along the lines of the NPC's setting out to go to Hell and rescue The Nameless One.
Jason
Re:Baldur's Gate 3 (Score:2)
Re:Baldur's Gate 3 (Score:1)
Re:Baldur's Gate 3 (Score:2)
I dunno Icewind Dale II didn't have much to do with Icewind Dale.
Besides, in the same way that Sun is using "Java desktop" when it's not Java, they'll probably use Baldur's Gate as a brand name. But really it's not so bad since Baldur's Gate is a city and certainly they could come up with some story about/in it. Unless Baldur's Gate gets destroyed at the end of ToB I couldn't say I never finished it.
RaviRe:Baldur's Gate 3 (Score:2)
Ahem, why not? I know there were rules in 2nd edition for Deity use, and I think people would buy a game like that up in droves.
Reuse (Score:2)
More likely scenario (Score:3, Insightful)
If NWN2 and BG3 are in the making they're being done by someone else and I can only imagine how much they will be unlike their predecessors.
Gold Box Games... (Score:1)
NWN2 (Score:1)
Just a thought... (Score:1, Interesting)
Seven Gates Of Aznarr? (Score:1)
That's going to be a good joke here XD
Anyway I imagine Atari will change the name with the spanish translation. Those seven gates sounds more like the gates to hell than anything else, we have made a lot of jokes about Aznar and God in Spain, maybe they want a marketing stunt.
BG3 (Score:1, Informative)