Baldur\'s Gate: Dark Alliance for PS2 !!!

I\'m downloading the movie now and I can\'t wait to see it. But based on what I\'ve read so far it seems as if this game along with other soon to be released AAA titles is trying to send a message to PS2 developers around the world and that is: "Think big and you get big" or "Dream your biggest dream and let the black box make it come true".

This is what developers have to do. They have to throw out everything they knew to be conventional(of course not everything, but at least to put their thinking into this frame of mind) because if they don\'t they\'re going to remain stagnant into a regressive mind state which has its origins in SNES, N64, Playstation one, etc.. type programming. Developers need to take risks and to continue to raise the bar. The sky is the limit with the PS2(at least so far). I like this statement made by one of the Baluder\'s Gate: Dark Alliance reps:


 "We are developing the game from the ground up to take full advantage of the sophisticated PlayStation 2 technology," said Ryan Geithman, director of Snowblind Studios. "Our goal is to push the hardware to its limits, thus creating stunning environmental effects and highly detailed characters never before seen on the console."

Now that\'s the kind of attitude a person has got to have even before he or she envisions the next PS2 project. The developers have to take the PS2 hardware and tear it a new a**hole.

ye ai downloaded the movie while i went to bed and wheni woke up was that a surprise or what

that is awesome - the water effects and the way the fire changes the shadows

even my dad is siked about this game

Nice mpg
I love the way each stone on the wall is actualy modelled with polygons...

Anyone wanna bet that this one is going to captivate audiences at E3 in the same way MGS2 did last year? I can see this game being the next big buzz... and it\'s going to change a lot of pissy attitudes about the little black wonder.

Just imagine what Sega will be able to do with it... just imagine what the PS3 will be capable of. No wait.. don\'t. You\'ve probably gone though enough underwear already.

yes yes yes.
i loved playing this game on the PC and now it is coming to the ps2. The game looks excellent hardly any slow down.
i can\'t wait.

Guys, look at the new screens...

http://ps2.ign.com/previews/15580.html

Only two of them:

Impressive....
But it\'s funny to see how all you ppl go
wild and even corny/mushy about such a game.
How a videogame can get this almost emotional
vibe out of ppl.
Knotter8

Originally posted by Knotter8
Impressive....
But it\'s funny to see how all you ppl go
wild and even corny/mushy about such a game.
How a videogame can get this almost emotional
vibe out of ppl.
Knotter8
 

We\'re fans.

Most of us Love RPG\'s and D+D, throw all that together with a great looking game from a credited franchise developed from the ground up to run on the PS2\'s hardware (not a port) and of course we are excited

I thought the Xbox was supposed to get all the PC ports.
 
Any fan that loves this and says xbox is getting nothing put PC ports and is a portbox should be slapped.  Thats what the PS2 is for.

It does look good, but remember, its only a PC game.  Gotta love putting that in some of your faces.

Ddaryl: if your wife don\'t wanna try with you....get another wife!!!! J/K

No Dwarrior, it\'s not a PC game. It\'s a PC franchise yes, but the game is being built solely for the PS2 to take advantage of the PS2\'s hardware. There may be a port TO the PC sometime in the future.. but it\'s going to be quite a while since the entire game is going to have to be recoded to work with PC\'s.

Originally posted by Dwarrior
I thought the Xbox was supposed to get all the PC ports.
 
Any fan that loves this and says xbox is getting nothing put PC ports and is a portbox should be slapped.  Thats what the PS2 is for.

It does look good, but remember, its only a PC game.  Gotta love putting that in some of your faces.

yea if you actually looked at the video you would have seen at the end that there was no advertiement saying it was also for the PC

;)yea love throwing it back into your face;)

Originally posted by Sublimesjg

Originally posted by Dwarrior
I thought the Xbox was supposed to get all the PC ports.
 
Any fan that loves this and says xbox is getting nothing put PC ports and is a portbox should be slapped.  Thats what the PS2 is for.

It does look good, but remember, its only a PC game.  Gotta love putting that in some of your faces.

yea if you actually looked at the video you would have seen at the end that there was no advertiement saying it was also for the PC

;)yea love throwing it back into your face;) [/B]

  I never thought I would see the day when the PS2 gets more PC ports than anything else and all of a sudden a PC games company doesn\'t suck...

  If this game was for xbox, everyone would be screaming PORT PORT!  Even if it was made from scratch.  Boy how quickly things have changed.  Its a PC company making a PC game with a PC GENRE using a PC point of view that was created from scratch for a CONSOLE.  So basically its a PC game for a console, thus its a PC port.

  The code might have not been ported, but everything else was.  It will be available for other platforms of course....

  PC games on Xbox = crappy ports
  PC games on PS2 = awesome innovative games... gotta love the translation on this one...

Originally posted by ddaryl
We\'re fans.

Most of us Love RPG\'s and D+D, throw all that together with a great looking game from a credited franchise developed from the ground up to run on the PS2\'s hardware (not a port) and of course we are excited
 [/B]

Every time I hear the phrase D+D, I can\'t help but think of that Summoner movie.  Like ddaryl said, we love D+D/RPG games.  I am really excited about this games graphics.  The water affects are amazing.  The spells are extremely cool (Lots and LOTS of particle affects ).  I have always been a huge fan of Baldur\'s Gate, and I can\'t wait for this game to come out.