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General discussion (archive)Baldurs Gate, Planescape Torment, Icewind Dale, etc?(23 posts)(23 posts)
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Posted September 12, 2008
Any chance for these to show up? They were all published by Interplay, however I don't know if Interplay still has the rights to redistribute them, seeing as how the Dungeon and Dragons licensed is in other hands now, and that it might be too many hoops to jump through.
I own all these on various CD's, but would instantly buy them all the day they were available over gog ;)
I'm surprised there hasn't been a post on these already... if Interplay and GOG could just put the entire Black Isle catalog up I'd be ecstatic! You've already got the Fallout's, let's do the rest :)
Posted September 12, 2008
I was thinking the same thing... sure, I could dig the old disks out, but I'd much rather get a ready-made executable for each one...
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Roufuss: Any chance for these to show up? They were all published by Interplay, however I don't know if Interplay still has the rights to redistribute them, seeing as how the Dungeon and Dragons licensed is in other hands now, and that it might be too many hoops to jump through.
I own all these on various CD's, but would instantly buy them all the day they were available over gog ;)
I'm surprised there hasn't been a post on these already... if Interplay and GOG could just put the entire Black Isle catalog up I'd be ecstatic! You've already got the Fallout's, let's do the rest :)
Posted September 12, 2008
The only thing stopping them could be complications with the D&D license, but I heard Interplay was working on a new D&D Dark Alliance game anyways, so the only thing I can think of is that gog is saving them for the official launch?
Kind of like the Fallout series was the big deal for the beta event, perhaps all of these extremely classic and well regarded games will be the big deal for the official launch?
It would be an amazing way to kick off the launch, that's for sure.
Posted September 12, 2008
the current state of famous p.c. franchise licenses is convoluted enough to make my eyes bleed.
last i'd heard, interplay had lost the d&d rights to atari years ago, but still retained the rights to "baldur's gate" (somehow, i have no idea how you can still have the license for a geographical area of the forgotten realms campaign world, while not having a d&d license...). the same with IWD.
as for planescape, i wouldn't even know where to begin to hunt information about that license down.
Posted September 12, 2008
They are all pretty new games.
Maybe in a few years... ;)
Post edited September 12, 2008 by UruramTururam
Posted September 12, 2008
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UruramTururam: They are all pretty new games.
Maybe in a few years... ;)

Fallout Tactics came out in 2001 (which gog sells), well after every game I listed, except Icewind Dale 2 which was 2002, so these games are far from being new, and I doubt that is the reason we don't have them.
I just hope for all of our sakes, damien is wrong, and gog is just holding onto them waiting, I hope =/
But imagine if they they threw these out for the official launch, the numbers would swell!
Post edited September 12, 2008 by Roufuss
Posted September 12, 2008
I bet that this series of games alone would make more sales than the rest of the entire GOG library. I for one have not been able to play baldurs gate 2 since the cat decided to bat the second disk around the floor like a mouse one day. at least it was not my original Planescape disks. The only bad thing about putting these games on is that their playing time is so great that GOG may not sale any thing else after someone purchases these. For example I still have not found everything in Planscape and I still play it at least once a month.
Posted September 12, 2008
Sierra holds the distro rights to those games now, somehow.
Posted September 12, 2008
these would be very good to see, indeed.
Posted September 12, 2008
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Penquin: Sierra holds the distro rights to those games now, somehow.

wow. the last ten years of sierra's history is probably complicated enough to write a book about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_On-Line
(scroll down to 1996 and grab the arms of your chair. its... bumpy.)
i'm not even going to try to figure out how they ended up with the old d&d based, black isle licenses at all.
if the lineage and explanations of normal licenses make my eyes bleed, this explanation would surely rupture every organ i have - at once.
wow.
Post edited September 12, 2008 by damien
Posted September 12, 2008
According to that article 39 out of 37 employees of one branch lost their jobs when that branch was shut down. How does that work? My brain hurts.
Posted September 12, 2008
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Penquin: According to that article 39 out of 37 employees of one branch lost their jobs when that branch was shut down. How does that work? My brain hurts.

I suppose they were really good multi-taskers? :P
Posted September 12, 2008
I would REALLY like to see Planescape: Torment on here...if it doesn't show up soon, I'm going to have to pay a ridiculous amount of money on Ebay to play it >:(
Posted September 12, 2008
As would I. Planescape is one of the games that I would love to see. As for baldur's gate and Ice Wind Dale series, I have those on disc and they work fine on Vista for me.
Posted September 12, 2008
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moho_00: I would REALLY like to see Planescape: Torment on here...if it doesn't show up soon, I'm going to have to pay a ridiculous amount of money on Ebay to play it >:(

+1.
I missed Planescape when it came out, and I have been regretting it ever since.
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