Talk:Baldur's Gate (video game)

message: The plot section of the article contains massive spoilers for anyone who hasn't finished the game. I don't know how spoilers normally go over on wikipedia, but can we shorten this article to include less spoilers, or add a spoiler warning?Frogg220 (talk) 20:37, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: *Typically we don't warn for or avoid spoilers.  Major plot spoilers shouldn't be in the lead paragraph, but anything further into the article is fair game for spoilers. DP76764 (Talk) 21:07, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Plot Spoilers

message: Err somebody needs to add the stuff for Dark Allience, or however the hell you spell it
:Nope, the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance series has it's own article, and has nothing to do with the Baldur's Gate PC/mac games.Poulsen 12:17, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that Dark Alliance should have at least a mentioning in this article. While Dark Alliance is a series on its own, it's still spun off of the original Baldur's Gate.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.120.91.75 (talk) 06:44, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, Poulsen's right. Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance has no connection to the Baldur's Gate PC series, apart from the fact that they were published by the same company. I think there was a weird rights thing where Black Isle had to put the name: "Baldur's Gate" in anything it put out with the D&D license... but that's the only connection, and honestly isn't that notable/important IMO. Anyone who's played both sets of games knows there is no connection between the two series apart from setting large portions of the adventures in the city of Baldur's Gate. DeathQuaker (talk) 13:32, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Dark Alliance

message: Surely one of you has had opposing characters such as Montaron and Jaheira go into violent dialogue during the game when you had the two in the same party. Or perhaps Xzar and Jaheira. After a few insulting lines, their circles would go purple, disabling your control of them, and they would begin to fight. Until one of the other side died, the fight would go on. After the fight was settled, the winner's circle would return to green, allowing control of him/her again. Could someone add this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by The Foxman (talk • contribs) 20:53, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes I believe you're right, but we still need a reliable source before we add this to the article. Regards, RJH (talk) 21:54, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Party confrontations 

message: I noticed that my link to Baldur's Gate Trilogy has been removed; may I ask why? BGT is becoming more popular than easyTuTu, and has far more support in terms of modding and bug-fixing. It's biased to keep a link to easyTuTu without having a link to BGT, since they both do essentially the same thing in two different ways. Thanks.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.45.228.49 (talk) 00:10, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  easyTuTu link vs. BGT Link? 

message: *Computer Games: Text, Narrative and Play by Diane Carr, David Buckingham, Andrew Burn, Gareth Schott. . - contains information relevant to the topic.
*Pleasures Of Computer Gaming: Essays on Cultural History, Theory and Aesthetics. . - Contains information relevant to the topic, include an essay entitled "Character Building; Pleasure Transformation and Flow in Baldur's Gate".
* LA Times interview.
* Wall Street Journal review.
* Sound guy.
* BG2 making-of that talks about BG1.
May be a starting point for future work on the article. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 09:09, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Great, thanks! –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 21:47, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A few important references 

message: I'm sure we could justify the inclusion of another picture by 'fair use' rationale. As is stands we just have the nondescript box art, plus a wall of dialogue text. It hardly illustrates what BG is all about -- big fights and colorful environments! Vranak (talk) 20:02, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see why not. The one with all the text isn't very illustrative. 24.148.0.83 (talk) 02:42, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs another picture 

message: There's a novel by Eleanor Clark with the same name, which has nothing to do with the game series.  Should there be a disambiguation page? Coupdeforce (talk) 00:27, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No. The novel doesn't have an article, so there's no immediate need for disambiguation. But I've linked to Eleanor Clark in a hat note. — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 03:51, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Novel with same name 

message: While digging through the online print archive, I located the following print preview material for this game:
*Computer Games Magazine Sales News
*Computer Games Magazine Interview with Ray Muzyka
*Computer Games Magazine Preview
*Computer Games Magazine Preview
*Computer Games Magazine Preview
*Computer Games Magazine Preview
*Computer Gaming World Preview
One or more print reviews for this game may also be found in the archive. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 09:27, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference material 

message: It mentions different OSs but what about Playstation 2?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr 63547828 (talk • contribs) 00:48, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you thinking of the Dark Alliance video games? Regards, RJH (talk) 22:18, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  On another system too. 

message: A post to the Lua mailing list by Cameron Tofer of Bioware in 1999 states that Lua was only used for debugging, therefore I'd say that the current information about Lua being used for AI is wrong. I suppose someone from Bioware knows better than a book author. (Leonidas-from-XIV) (talk) 00:48, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lua not actually used for AI 

message: The D&D Anthology/Master Collection was released in several places (also Gamersgate and Amazon for example) and it first was on Gamersgate afaik. Why is GameStop mentioned explicitly? --88.77.101.69 (talk) 19:39, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  GameStop App 

message: That's the problem with mainstream video game journalism, and still there's plenty of sources that gives Interplay as the sole publisher of this game, as here , here and  here . Black Isle was Interplay in-house developer that worked with Bioware, and it's have nothing to do with publishing. Ruddah (talk) 15:23, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I always considered it strange, they published BGII too, I always assumed it was Interplay using the Black Isle imprint because of its relation and popularity in regards to role playing games. Black Isle certainly had something to do with the game, they have logos and a page devoted to them in the end credits, (things such as testing, marketing and public relations, publishing type stuff?) so if they didn't develop, or apparently publish, what did they do? We have sources that say Interplay published but that doesn't override the sources that say Black Isle, as it's a subsidiary of Interplay. Яehevkor ✉ 16:19, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

text: Another source with quote "Published by Black Isle Studios (the internal RPG division of Interplay Productions)". There are many more sources that say Black Isle published but this does shed a bit of light on it. I have no doubt that Interplay handled most of the work but Black Isle was credited as publisher to maybe promote the brand. Яehevkor ✉ 16:28, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: A good source might be an interview from someone who was actually involved. 68.57.233.34 (talk) 03:53, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Interviews I came across seemed to corroborate Black Isle's involvement. "Fortunately Interplay and Black Isle were very supportive". Maybe  this could shed some light, but I don't have time to sit and watch it all. Яehevkor ✉ 21:17, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

text: Half of the sources said that it was Interplay and the other half it was BIS, so in any scenery half of internet is wrong no matter what. That's the problem with journalism, when I have sometime free I'll find a site that read which said the Baldur's Gate games were developed by BIS.Ruddah (talk) 19:44, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Or both were involved with publication, as the article suggests now? Possibly one third say Black Isle, one third say Interplay, one third say both. I have no doubt that Black Isle where credited with publication, which is what really counts, I have no reason (or evidence) to believe they had no involvement at all, which is what is being implied here. There are multiple sources citing their involvement, including the games credits. Why would their logo be on the box if they had nothing to do with it? Яehevkor ✉ 21:17, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Journalism is not to be taken seriously in any way. This piece just credit Black Isle as the creator of the series http://www.polygon.com/2015/1/8/7518145/new-baldurs-gate-game-infinity-engine Guidaw (talk) 17:15, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Publisher

message: 1.  Imoen wasn't just a friend of the PC -- she was the PC's sister (and also a Bahlspawn).
2.  There was no such thing as "Maximum PC" magazine in 1998.  It was called "Boot".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.65.91.78 (talk) 08:02, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: You're going to need a source for that sister part, and Maximum PC did indeed premier in 1998.TheWizardOfAhz (talk) 16:42, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two problems with this article -- 

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message: Bioware's first game is Shattered Steel, not Baldur's Gate.
Check the wiki page of Shattered Steel for proof of this.
Merudo (talk) 15:11, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see anywhere that this article claims this is the first Bioware game. -- ferret (talk) 16:06, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bioware's first game 

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message: *https://archive.org/stream/PC-Player-German-Magazine-1999-05/PC_Player_1999_05#page/n29
: The sales section takes almost a thousand words to say that (a) it was more popular than the publishers expected (b) it went on to sell around 2.8m copies. It's just a mass of empty data. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 20:36, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  PC Player sales analysis