Has BG:EE lost something?

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• Aasim Member Posts: 591

  October 2016

  @AndreaColombo
  
  Ok. How do you get those original BG1 beauties in EE?

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• AndreaColombo Member Posts: 5,525

  October 2016

  @Aasim - It's a mod I'm working on with @Soulmarine and @skellytz .

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• Aasim Member Posts: 591

  October 2016

  Fantastic....

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• Stormvessel Member Posts: 654

  October 2016

  To me, it's no competition.
  
  This...
  
  
  
  ...looks so much better than this...
  
  

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• JumboWheat01 Member Posts: 1,028

  October 2016

  Plus the black outlines help make the characters stand out from the background.
  
  My colorblindness hates me a lot of late.

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• AndreaColombo Member Posts: 5,525

  October 2016

  See? I like the second picture better. Graphics are indeed a very subjective matter

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• BillyYank Member Posts: 2,768

  October 2016

  Swords that look like straight lines instead of a bunch of boxes welded together, whooda thunkit?

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• gunman Member Posts: 215

  October 2016

  Both screenshots should be taken at the same zoom level for a fair comparison. I prefer the old graphics too, the new filter is too blurry and I find the black outline horrible (I always deactivate it). They look like cartoony sprites artificially pasted over a background from another game. Instead of sharp and clean graphics, the filter in 2.0 makes characters look like blobs of color. Are the characters turning into slimes?
  
  

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• JumboWheat01 Member Posts: 1,028

  October 2016

  Hmm... companion cube slime... Must write this down.

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• Ravenslight Member Posts: 1,609

  October 2016

  I agree. It would need to be a screen shot of the party in the same area at the same zoom level to even begin to judge it.
  

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• JumboWheat01 Member Posts: 1,028

  October 2016

  And the same game too. The second screenie is Icewind Dale, if I'm not mistaken.

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• lefreut Member Posts: 1,462

  October 2016 edited November 2019

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• lefreut Member Posts: 1,462

  March 2017 edited November 2019

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• AndreaColombo Member Posts: 5,525

  April 2017

  ^ Unfortunately it doesn't seem to apply to character sprites or selection circles, though

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• Zaghoul Member, Moderator Posts: 3,938

  April 2017

  BelgarathMTH said:

  
  
  I wonder if the fact that my first love of D&D came from my experiences playing tabletop 1st edition AD&D with very fondly remembered friends during my senior year in high school and first years of college, in 1982-1987, has something to do with this? Could it be that the early computer games I love so much duplicate that tabletop experience in a solitaire form better than any of the later offerings from game developers? Have the developers lost touch with the magic of the tabletop gaming experience?
  
  I'm about to replay the original BG1 on Gog.com to see if I can recapture the feeling that I'm missing again.
  
  Does anyone else understand or have insights into what I'm trying to get at here?

  @BelgarathMTH I'm hearing you on FM here.
  It was the same for me and in that same time period. The fantasy games then were most definitely geared to someone used to PnP. Early HOMM, Pool of Radiance games, Bard's Tale. Temple Of Apshai by Epyx was a favorite as well.
  The top down view like BG goes along with many of those I liked.
  
  I do think those formative years in an earlier time of computer technology, combined with the earliest version of D&D most definitely stays with one to a certain extent.

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