... said mod package forces this new content to the players as 100% mandatory,
Sorry, I must have mistaken the game you are talking cause in my Baldur's Gate game, I was never MADE to pick a party of 6 members, I could have soloed the whole game were I to have had the inclination...
with no reloads etc fun. Actually I don't see that as fun, but you should get the point.
Yes, the BG1EE gives you a chance to recruit additional 4 NPCs, but you can show them the same giant to handle with a toothpick and they'll never bother you ever again.
Not to mention that BGEE sullied great name of a PC epic by allowing it to be played on lesser devices geared towards houseviwes and casuals.
Well, I bet the housewives today have a considerably firmer personal computer between their thumbs that you had when the
BG1 came out, so your point being what, I must ask ?
In case you failed to understand, the technology that runs both of the devises is similar, the current one is just better in design and so it fits in much smaller space, welcome to the future man. Besides, the Chinese would have eventually done it anyways.
It might be good to also point out that the Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition is a Trademark, and so for that to be allowed, The Beamdog had to make a sales treaty with the original Baldur's Gate Trademark owner. Now, I don't know what that entails, but I am pretty sure that it was more than ... sell your ¤%&# on our good name.
K4thos, I don't know what you mean EE engine and where the differences lie.
Just like with the different main conversion packs for the
BG1 parts in what can be sad to be
BG2's engine(
BGT,
BGT-
weidu, BG1Tutu, EasyTutu, BG1EE ), a small portion of the code might need to be slightly adjusted to fit in the current game for compatibility. Things like file names.
The close definition of the different engines needs to be broadened to fit into this sense of reality... yeah, the architect is very similar, but seeing things in mirror does not make the stairs under you in the picture any more real if there's a hole in the ground in front of you where the stairs should be. Yes, technically it can be said that all the games uses is the Infinity Engine... but you can't say that they do not use different sub versions of that engine.
I believe what K4thos was offering is that possibly, he could take the
Nej's code, and add the needed changes to it so that it would be compatible with the normal
BG2 game as well as the
BG2EE game, and then give it back to you to do what you wish. And if then you would need any explanations to read the code, he would give it.
K, that was a rather small, but still waallish post of text, that simply, should say, that let's try to be kind to one another and not start yet another flame wars, those never end up good for any sides, k. Thanks.
Edited by The Imp, 10 January 2015 - 03:11 PM.