Baldur's Gate III, anyone?

[Hartford688]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/29/new-baldurs-gate-website-suggests-remake-sequel/

[twitter3]

Updated graphics -  update the story - add some suspense and I'm in.

[mikeck]

Let me guess...it will be designed for the console ported to the PC.  Man, what I need is a new, shiny isometric party based/turn based RPG made for the PC. Let the console crowd play DA2

[twitter3]

Amen brother Mikeck.

[Tpek]

Let me guess...it will be designed for the console ported to the PC.  Man, what I need is a new, shiny isometric party based/turn based RPG made for the PC. Let the console crowd play DA2

You got it all wrong.
It will be a next-gen console first person shooter with Bullet Time powers and Quick Time Events. :P

[Sir Slash]

You have made Boo one very happy miniture giant space hamster.

[Martok]

I'm not ashamed to admit I went "Squee!" upon reading the OP (and included links). 

[Bison]

I few more tidbits of information to add to the speculation.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Baldur-s-Gate-RPG-Overhaul-Games-Beamdog-PC-Gaming,15035.html

[Svend Karlson]

For I don't know how long, maybe 1-2 years, I've been considering a re-play of Baldur's Gate II on an off. I'm no fan of the real-time combat, tick-based or not, but the game was good enough for me to live with that and enjoy it in spades.

Pushing me toward re-play were:

# A relative dearth of RPGs with parties. Actually that ain't true. There is Neverwinter Nights 2, Drakensang, Dragon Age 1-2 and probably more. The combat in these kills the enjoyment dead though. I don't mind micro-managing, in fact I enjoy it, so long as I can do it at my own pace and see the results occur one at a time. I'm a fan of Temple of Elemental Evil, Knights of the Chalice and the ilk for combat
# The fact I'd never played the Throne of Baal expansion. I did buy it, but had a corrupted CD
# Nostalgia  :)

Deterring me has been:

# Inertia. I know that there are a whole bunch of great mods that would enhance the game. I also know that I'd probably need to spend an entire weekend working out what I would like and acquiring them and installing them and trouble-shooting to get them to work. I doubt I'd be satisfied that I was getting a sufficiently optimal experience without doing this, but the up-front work puts me off as I'm short on gaming time
# The initial dungeon. Whilst I've only completed BG II once, I've played through the initial dungeon at least a half dozen times, and never want to again. I'm sure there is a mod that lets me skip it, and for that, refer to the previous point
# That I'm familiar with the story, and like new things, and there are other good games around and I don't have that much gaming time

This re-release relieves my torment. I'll simply not think about it any more this happens. Bravo!  ;D

[Hartford688]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/04/17/the-heresy-of-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition/

[Tpek]

BG2 Enhanced is up for pre-load.
It's 20$ anyone got/getting it? (aside from meself)

http://www.baldursgate.com/windows.en.html

EDIT: correcting the mistake.

[smittyohio]

BG2 Enhanced is up for pre-load.
It's 20$ anyone got/getting it? (aside from meself)

http://www.baldursgate.com/windows.en.html

It's BG1 that's finished now, though apparently they are also hard at work on BG2

[Tpek]

BG2 Enhanced is up for pre-load.
It's 20$ anyone got/getting it? (aside from meself)

http://www.baldursgate.com/windows.en.html

It's BG1 that's finished now, though apparently they are also hard at work on BG2

Ohh ooops, right... :P

[JasonPratt]

Not that I'm complaining. But how is this even legal?

(And will Steam get it?  ;D)

[Huw the Poo]

(And will Steam get it?  ;D)

I doubt it, or at least, not to begin with.  Beamdog - a direct competitor to Steam - are somehow behind all of this.  I can therefore see it being exclusive to Beamdog, at least initially.  Probably depends on sales.