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The first Baldur's Gate was released in 1998 for PC and in 2000 for Mac OS, never seeing the light of day on consoles. 15 years later, in 2013, an enhanced edition of both games was brought to fruition by the ex-BioWare alumni-helmed studio, Beamdog. However, whilst this classic RPG was a PC exclusive, that wasn't the intention, as originally, the game was slated to be ported over to the original PlayStation.
There was evidently a plan to make more than one possible chapter four. However they were limited by data restrictions (Super Nintendo and all), but the devs were allegedly happy with the finished product anyways.
Nel corso del gioco è possibile incappare in alcune scritte codificate in alfabeto Futhark. Il gioco stesso, ad un certo punto della partita, rivela la traduzione dei vari segni in caratteri latini, il che permette di decifrare le varie scritte. Al di là di alcune indicazioni utili per il gioco, in una sezione iniziale del cimitero è presente tutta una serie di lapidi in Futark che riportano i membri del team di sviluppo di Silicon Knight.
Noa and Vahn's arts are more fantastical than Gala's. Noa's arts have more in common with gymnastics than any real world martial arts and Vahn's style is more based in reality with just enough jumping and flipping to be interesting but not unrealistic. Gala's style is comprised of headbutts, guillotines, flurries of punches, knee kicks, and hammer fists. But while these moves are usually associated with Dumb Muscle and Unskilled, but Strong characters, Gala is a skilled and refined fighter who makes damn good use of them. His arts also don't combine as well as Vahn or Noa, and for the most part, he'll have one or two good combos until later in the game.
The game was extremely well received and still has a large following, but it was complete flop in terms of sales and it partially convinced LucasArts that adventure games were a bygone genre.
The Quintet quiz is inaccessible in all non-Japanese versions, though most versions still have text pertaining to it in its code. There is also a test room, and a removed building from Suncoast, and unused interiors for Storkholm.
A card dropping from a single opponent with a drop rate of 2/2048 doesn't mean it'll be any good; in fact there are many cards that are this difficult to obtain yet are utterly useless beyond the early game. A good deal of the unobtainable cards are also weak-to-mediocre in stats and would only have use as basic fusion fodde
Because of the success of Xenoblade Chronicles, XSEED decided to get the North American publishing rights to The Last Story, for a 2012 publication. The game ended up being their best-selling published game in XSEED's history, which encouraged them to publish Pandora's Tower in early 2013 as well.
The cast shares a lot of voice actors with Metal Gear Solid, such as Cam Clarke, Paul Eiding, Jennifer Hale, Peter Lurie and Kim Mai Guest. This might have been a case of Follow the Leader as high quality video game dubs were uncommon at the time and Metal Gear Solid was an early exception. Incidentally, it also goes the other way around as John Cygan and Richard Doyle would provide voicework for later Metal Gear entries.
When developing the first game, not only did the team have to develop for brand new hardware, which was infamous for being difficult to work with, but the Saturn specs were not even finalized until a ways into development, meaning the team had to base all their work on educated guesses about how the final system would perform; this caused the game to miss its initial deadline.
The plot to late the game has some disturbing similarities to the back story of Symphony of the Night.Artina plays the role of Lisa, Valvatorez plays the role of Alucard, and Nemo plays the role of Dracula. To elaborate, the circumstances of Artina's death are in many ways similar to Lisa's (both die as a result of medicine related No Good Deed Goes Unpunished). Valvatorez is pissed but is stopped by the dying words of Artina. Nemo goes nuclear as a result, becoming a dark lord of sorts hell bent on the destruction and punishment of man kind as retribution for Artina's death
According to the game's art director Yūsuke Naora, he liked how his design of the city of Midgar turned out, having envisioned the city in his head as a pizza while he was designing it. After the first AVALANCHE mission at the start of the game, Barret will reference this inspiration when talking to Cloud about the upper plate of Midgar: Barrett: "The upper world...a city on a plate...It's cuz of that &^#$# 'pizza', that people underneath are sufferin'!" Additionally, the name of the song "Underneath the Rotting Pizza", which prominently plays in many of the slum areas in Midgar, is a reference to its design.
