As convenient accidents tend to happen in RPG situations, it is discovered that the tavern’s sewer entrance is being used by the group of thieves to gain access to the town. To help out these adventurers, Alyth gives them some charity disguised as work: taking care of some pesky rats in the tavern cellar. Some local guards rescue our heroes from certain death and take them to Elfsong Tavern where Jennifer Hale Alyth Elendara is tending bar. Starting off in the titular location helps justify the title using the Baldur’s Gate name, and as things rarely go well in RPGs the group is quickly attacked by a group of thieves led by a man named Karne. The story begins with the three heroes arriving in Baldur’s Gate. One advantage it had over Diablo II was it offered that style of gameplay that could be played with couch co-op without having to go through the trouble of setting up a LAN party. Other players were more forgiving, and while the setting and title might be the only common link to the PC titles Dark Alliance was still a fun action RPG. Fans of the PC titles weren’t thrilled that their beloved CRPG was reduced to a hack and slash Diablo knock off. ( Editor’s Note: You may as well just copy and pasted your first paragraph from Member Dark Alliance II?)ĭespite receiving favorable critic reviews, Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance was met with a more mixed consumer reception. Putting a complex CRPG like Baldur’s Gate on a Gamecube just wasn’t an option, so Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance took the profitable PC franchise name and made it into a Diablo clone. Unfortunately, while nowadays the gap between what an expensive PC and console can do isn’t that wide, in 2001 there was a huge chasm between what PCs and consoles could do. After releasing an expansion, sequel and expansion for the sequel, it became apparent that the Baldur’s Gate name is analogous to printing money, so getting into the console market seemed like the next logical step.
Nearing the close of the century Baldur’s Gate was among the more critically-acclaimed and commercially-successful computer RPGs. We even have a beige computer with a floppy disk drive. All the classic systems are down there collecting dust, so in an effort to improve the cleanliness of our work space, we dust off these old consoles every so often and put an old game through its paces, just to make sure everything stays in working order.
The basement at the Hardcore Gamer office has a section known as the Crust Room, with an old grey couch and a big old CRT TV. Member the games you used to play? We member.
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