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Podcast: Retro Spectives
Episode: E128: Baldur's Gate
Description: In 1998 Bioware changed the gaming landscape with Baldur’s Gate, a Dungeons and Dragons inspired adventure. Taking cues from second edition D&D and the many stories written about it, Bioware wrote a low level adventure that jammed everything they could find inside it. They attempted to copy mage spells directly from the manual, and even added in famous characters like Drizzt. It was exactly what the fans had been waiting for. Not only were they able to see everything come to life, the game used the radical real time with pause system, allowing combat to flow far mo...