Baldur's Gate all-time favorite among thousands of developers.

[Amagic]

I personally doubt WoW was more popular than Warcraft. Sure, WoW had more players and media coverage, but Warcraft was more loved. I still love Warcraft 3 all these years later, when I first bought it after its release. Hell, my XFire shows that I've played it for over 1200 hours over these years and only a few hours were wasted on ladder or DotA games 

Too bad WC3 is dying, slowly but still dying. Many of the DotA players often filled the other custom games but with them gone it's only a matter of time. WC3 was utterly addictive in it's prime though.

 

[FrisianDude]

I personally doubt WoW was more popular than Warcraft.

That's not what I was saying. D: I said WoW is more popular than C&C Renegade and SC:Ghost.

 

[DSparil]

One of my all time favourite series. RIP Black Isle.
Although I blame it for starting the whole dating bull**** 

 

[McBeverage]

****ing great series, they definately deserved to be up there, if not #1.

 

[Jhessail]

One of my all time favourite series. RIP Black Isle.
Although I blame it for starting the whole dating bull**** 

Wait wait wait! Bioware started the dating bull**** in BG2. According to David Gaider because fans wanted them. Black Isle had no dating in any of the games they made. They just published early Bioware games as the RPG-division of Interplay, and helped build the first BG. Which is why you have three logo-screens in the BG games but only two in IWD games.

 

[Adorno]

Surprisingly not a single simulator game - Sim City, The Sims etc.
They're all story driven.

 

[Danath]

BG? What I remember from that game watching a friend playing it:
In the woods/road. See a house. Enter. Please insert CD 4. One minute switching CDs and loading. More than 30 seconds to load each floor. Nothing interesting found. Wait for each floor to load, change CD again to exit to the woods/road.

 

[DSparil]

BG? What I remember from that game watching a friend playing it:
In the woods/road. See a house. Enter. Please insert CD 4. One minute switching CDs and loading. More than 30 seconds to load each floor. Nothing interesting found. Wait for each floor to load, change CD again to exit to the woods/road.

Perhaps your friend should have done a full install and not a minimum one.

 

[FrisianDude]

Yeah, always do full installs.

 

[Danath]

And what would that require? I think my HDD didn't have more than 4Gb by then.

 

[Mage246]

I know what you mean. Back in those days a full install would have required that I uninstall every other big game and would still result in going dangerously low on free space.

 

[Jhessail]

BG? What I remember from that game watching a friend playing it:
In the woods/road. See a house. Enter. Please insert CD 4. One minute switching CDs and loading. More than 30 seconds to load each floor. Nothing interesting found. Wait for each floor to load, change CD again to exit to the woods/road.

You remember wrong. Each CD had several complete areas. The game never asked for a CD when entering/exiting a building. In addition, while BG1 was shipped on 5-cd's, it was not packed at all - hence why BG2 fit on four cd's even though it was a bigger game. I remember doing a full install for both games and I don't think it took more space than maybe a gigabyte and a half for each, so three gigs or so - maybe four if you wanted both expansions as well.

Hmm, just checked and my current BGTrilogy folder takes up 6.72 gigs, though there's a ton of mods there as well.

 

[Mage246]

He doesn't remember wrong, things were just different back then. I used to have an 8 gb HD, and 4 gb HD before that. And you know what? We were happy to have that much. And then we had to walk to school, both ways, in the snow. And we liked that too. And the fact that you had to go back to the inn or that town so often meant very often CD switching. We didn't like that.

 

[Seff]

I don't think he's remembering wrong as much as he's exaggerating to make a point.

 

[Danath]

Eh, maybe I remember wrong having to change CDs everytime, but I do remember the looooong loading for just a single floor of a house, mainly because having to start spinning the CD each time, and with a reader that was... 8X?
Probably I had 4Gb. A full install was a difficult decision there

The full game install uses just under 2 GB

 

[Jhessail]

I don't think he's remembering wrong as much as he's exaggerating to make a point.

Exactly.

And then we had to walk to school, both ways, in the snow.

You forgot uphill.

And I played BG with a 4X Cd-drive so stop complaining. Just the installation took ages. As to the areas, CD2 included Nashkel and all its surroundings IIRC (or maybe it was CD3). In any case, you could explore the lower part of the map and go back to Nashkel for inn, store and temple without changing discs.

 

[Seff]

CD3. 2 had Beregost and FAI, IIRC. 4 had Cloakwood and various. 5 had Baldur's Gate. 6 had TotSC stuff, of course.

****, here comes the nostalgia again.