How popular is Baldur's Gate in Italy?

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Aedan

In Italy, Baldur's Gate is a cult videogame. I can confirm that the community is very large and active.
The number of mods translated in our language is outstanding - we want to extend CHARNAME's adventures as much as possible
Also, the manteiner of Weidu has been an italian fellow (Valerio Bigiani, aka "the bigg") for many years.

Sophia

I agree with Aedan, we are a very large community!
Baldur's Gate has always been very popular around here, there were/are lots of italian sites and forums about this beautiful game.

Pibaro

In 1998-2002 in Italy in the dedicated newsgroup (it.comp.giochi.rpg) we were talking about bg and bg2 all the time. No rpg ever was that successful. I knew personally many people who used to play it.

stringa85

Hi from Italy! this is the only game that I played many times on my PC... I think that baldur's saga is popular in Italy, and enhanced edition version is very appreciate from our side! Thanks!

Fezwulf

For me BG is not a game but a lifestyle XD.

I still have the original BG+ BG2 and TOB installed and full "modded" on my pc. I'm also a fan of the AD&D ruleset which I consider one the best RPG experience in order to create campaigns in the Forgotten Realms or in the Planescape Lore...

Luthford

I was 14 years old the first time i saw this masterpiece.. a friend of mine suggested to install baldur's gate on my pc and my first comment, when i saw a screen like that:

"this game is shit"!!
It was 1998.. since then i have never stopped to play this game (the game) and now i'm 29 years old XD
ps: aedan purtroppo l immagine l ho trovata tramite google e ho cercato di scrivere nel modo più corretto possibile. Magari poi ti racconto un aneddoto sui thread nostrani XD

AndreaColombo

Baldur's Gate has been my favorite game since my first playthrough in 1998, and the only game I kept playing after growing tired of the gaming scene around 2004-2005. Best thing to ever grace the cRPG world alongside Planescape: Torment.

Mandra

I'm italian and I think that Baldur's Gate is the best rpg in the world!! ;-)

arivitt

Baldur's Gate is the only game I play. And the Italian translation is the only thing that make me buy the game.

SeanCourtney

for me it's the same thing that said @arivitt and @Mandra...I love to play BG but only if i can play in italian (I'm sorry for my english)

Zeratul

In Italy Baldur's Gate is a must! Ciao a tutti!

scubarazor

I love Baldur's Gate !!

Tresset

Maybe a bit off topic here, but I believe both companies responsible for BG are Canadian (Bioware and Overhaul); correct me if I'm wrong.

Coriander

From Edmonton even.

Aedan

Tresset said:

Maybe a bit off topic here, but I believe both companies responsible for BG are Canadian (Bioware and Overhaul); correct me if I'm wrong.

I do not understand how this is related to the topic

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Kilivitz

I'm from South America, but I have dual-citizenship (Italian/Brazilian). Does that count?

ShapiroKeatsDarkMage

Pibaro said:

In 1998-2002 in Italy in the dedicated newsgroup (it.comp.giochi.rpg) we were talking about bg and bg2 all the time. No rpg ever was that successful. I knew personally many people who used to play it.

And then came Final Fantasy 7.XD

Aedan

@Kilivitz
Sure. You can join us in the party!

Pibaro

ShapiroKeatsDarkMage said:

And then came Final Fantasy 7.XD

You could even say "And then came Diablo 2"

Metalloman

Totally agreed with @Pibaro: FFXII and Diablo are completely other categories of PC-RPG: J-RPG and Action-RPG, or Hack & Slash.
Even if they came all from the RPG category, those kind of videogames are evolved in such a different manner (thanks to different culture and/or different game mechanisms) that they've become two distinct VG categories, with peculiarities and standards.

At this point to compare BG to Zelda is the same thing, or to Need for Speed, or to Halo.

As those are different categories you can't do a confrontation, a comparation, as those are different categories and every VG title quoted here is a masterpiece of its own category.

But ENOUGH OFF TOPIC, HERE (my fault too but I wanted to put an end on this)!

Come on, Back on Thread!



Anyway...

In italy Baldur's Gate is totally THE role playing pc game, a community strong and huge as Minsc lives here since 1998!

EDIT: How many typos I've done? OMG! XD

EDIT2: Still correcting my typos...I'm ashamed! O,o

Tresset

I noticed the German section just expanded recently...

franco

I am Italian-American born in New York ed ho famiglia fra tutta l'Italia. Baldur's Gate truly gives me the feeling of fantasy Europe in medieval times, and it is based on such a realistic system of abilities and chance. I am so happy to hear that it is such a big hit in my country of origin.

Alcott80

Hi from Italy... I love B'sG!!! :-)