In an interview after the event, Daigle said that the biggest challenge wasn’t creating new adventures or designing new dungeons, but “Getting all our voice acting in a row. It’s been a long, long time since these characters went on new adventures, travelled to new lands or spoke new lines. Khalid returns, Dynaheir joins him and Minsc is the same omnicidal extrovert as ever. Many of Baldur’s Gate’s most famous characters are back, including several who didn’t make it to the sequel. Perhaps your companions can help answer that question. She sallies forth from the ruins of Castle Dragonspear (careful, that Forgotten Realms wiki is a timesink), seizing supplies from the locals to feed her ever-expanding army. Trouble is sweeping across the High Moor in the form of a strange crusade, lead by a mysterious and charismatic commander known only as the Shining Lady. Leaving town for a little while isn’t a bad idea and investigating strange happenings further up the Sword Coast is as good an excuse as any.
Patching this plothole, Siege of Dragonspear continues two weeks after the climax of Baldur’s Gate, with the player celebrated for their efforts but, at the same time, suspected (correctly) of carrying the same dangerously divine heritage as the first game’s antagonist. The first ended with the player a hero, yet its sequel began with them as an outcast for reasons that were never explained. There was always a strange disconnect between the Baldur’s Gate games.
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Nor are they compromising - not now that they're free from the pressures of a publisher, but more on that later. “It’s about three hundred thousand now.”īeamdog are not holding back. “We said we’d do about two hundred thousand words of dialogue,” Oster says. He then checks with Oster the current estimate of the game’s word count and his partner casually estimates that conversations, item descriptions and flavour text bring to about the half-million mark. “There's even more new items in Siege than there were in either of the original expansions,” Cameron Tofer, Beamdog’s other co-founder, tells me afterwards. During a reveal delivered live on Twitch, lead designer Phil Daigle also promised “Battles larger than anything you've seen in the Infinity Engine before,” fought out across some of these.
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One twisting dungeon is far larger than anything ever featured in the Baldur’s Gate series and, if my judgment is correct, also any of the maps in Pillars of Eternity. I don’t doubt it, not just because of the claim of seventy new maps to explore, but because I’ve also seen a few of those maps up close and some of them are enormous. This, they say, will be some very substantial adventuring. Beamdog are estimating that it will give players at least twenty-five hours of adventuring and Oster says it’s actually larger than both previous expansions combined. While it may not boast the same enormous size as the tremendous siblings that bracket it, it’s not looking slight. Whatever its numeral, it is a third game in the Baldur’s Gate series, set in the same world, during the same time, and featuring many of the same characters. Okay, fine, it’s more like Baldur’s Gate 1.5, since its plot is designed to slot neatly between those of the other two games, bridging a narrative gap that has long remained murky and ambiguous. For all intents and purposes, it’s Baldur’s Gate 3. While Beamdog are calling it an expansion pack, its scope and scale mean that it outsizes both Tales of the Sword Coast and Throne of Bhaal.
No, Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear is something wholly new. This time, he won’t just be adding a new lick of paint here or a subtle embellishment there, as he has with the company’s Enhanced Editions of the Baldur’s Gate games. Beamdog’s co-founder who, twenty years ago, was also there when Bioware began, is once again returning to one of roleplaying’s most beloved and most influential series.
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