Release date confirmed! (7/20/2022)

[🪻🧋Sylvie💮🍃]

I'm glad that Black Isle Studios/Interplay confirmed that Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 will be released both PC and Console on July 20, 2022!
https://twitter.com/BlackIsleStudio/status/1546512156631384065

[Tr0w]

Black Isle have been dead for many years, the people that worked for the real studio created Obsidian. This Black Isle is nothing more than a skin suit dug up by Interplay (an undead entity),

[Metal Maniac]

Instant Buy

[Metal Maniac]

It´s 7/21/22 not 20.

[🪻🧋Sylvie💮🍃]

Originally posted by The Evil One:

It´s 7/21/22 not 20.

Nope, that is incorrect. It's 7/20/22, not 21.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1889930/Baldurs_Gate_Dark_Alliance_II/

[Metal Maniac]

21, like i said

On Twitter it´s 20, but steam says 21.

[stratzilla]

Originally posted by The Evil One:

21, like i said

Originally posted by Sylvia:

Originally posted by The Evil One:

It´s 7/21/22 not 20.

Nope, that is incorrect. It's 7/20/22, not 21.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1889930/Baldurs_Gate_Dark_Alliance_II/

It's both depending on your region. Timezones, etc. Maybe in Germany it says 21st. Here in Canada it says 20th.

[Metal Maniac]

21 in Germany, right.

[Sarah]

Thier going to be competeing with sea of thieves new update.

[🪻🧋Sylvie💮🍃]

Originally posted by The Evil One:

21, like i said

On Twitter it´s 20, but steam says 21.

Well then you live in different time zone that's for sure. But here in the West Coast/North America, it's still set to be released on July 20th, 2022, according to Steam Store page.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1889930/Baldurs_Gate_Dark_Alliance_II/

[Metal Maniac]

Originally posted by Sylvia:

Originally posted by The Evil One:

21, like i said

On Twitter it´s 20, but steam says 21.

Well then you live in different time zone that's for sure. But here in the West Coast/North America, it's still set to be released on July 20th, 2022, according to Steam Store page.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1889930/Baldurs_Gate_Dark_Alliance_II/

Germany

[ネコットさん]

Why did you feel the need to say that here, this is about a release date not about a company.

[Tr0w]

Originally posted by ネコットさん:

Why did you feel the need to say that here, this is about a release date not about a company.

Because people should know who they're dealing with and it isn't the Black Isle that were involved with BG1+2 and DA1+2 or that made IWD1+2.

Why do you feel protective of blatant ripoff merchants?

[Khronn]

Originally posted by Tr0w:

Originally posted by ネコットさん:

Why did you feel the need to say that here, this is about a release date not about a company.

Because people should know who they're dealing with and it isn't the Black Isle that were involved with BG1+2 and DA1+2 or that made IWD1+2.

Why do you feel protective of blatant ripoff merchants?

>Halo Master Chef collection
Which is also not made by the old devs, not by the people or even the studio, and has some inferiority like no online 4 person campaign co-op while they did on the 360.

>The "Pixel Remaster" Final Fantasy games 1-6
That is like at least their 5th release for each game, at a minimum (And for some, way even more than that), were they try to be a 'return to form' and includes excluding content that were added on their PS1, GBA, and PSP re-releases and it can't be even be said about "trying to keep the original old Nintendo gameplay" because for FF1 they added Phoenix Downs (item for resurrecting party members mid battle) that weren't a thing in the NES version and they still keep all the shop price nerfs and other things (i.e. Chaos doesn't cast Death on his first turn), so there goes that argument. So they are just cash grabs with worse graphics and missing content than compared to the older crash grabs of the same games.

>Batman Arkham Knight
A game that holds exclusive content just for the PS3 version that PC players can never get and was sold on marketing lies (did not have 60FPS at launch but made fake gameplay footage with Nvidia showing 60FPS gameplay that wasn't possible till later. And I bet you have a Nvida GPU too, don't cha?), and it 'sstill a buggy unoptimized mess to this day, froma publisher that sees PC gamers as their second-class customers.

>Two games (Mech Warrior and Destiny 2) that are pay2win and/or not grind forever cash shop based MMOs
Oh god, what the ♥♥♥♥...

In contrast, this neo-Black Isle studio is simply taking a very old PS2-Xbox-Gamecube era game and is updating its engine and porting it to modern platforms. Games that I might add, use the Frostbite engine (that if you don't know, is a nightmare trying to emulate well even to this day), upscaling it to HD, and even upgrading the engine from 32bit to 64bit ( a lot of ports and remasters don't even do this which sucks because 32bit is outdated and are gonna cause memory issues due to hard the hard 4GB RAM use limit when trying to mod them and upscale the the resolutions as we slowly move onto 4k displays and beyond), and support for QOL things like borderless window. Without touching anything about the game play or the content of the game itself.

What is your excuse for buying the Final Fantasy PR collection, that both inferior to the older cash grabs, and the game already emulate very well?

And if you play freemium MMOs I will never take your word on anything being a bad value or a rip off while you throw your money on infinite spend games:
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Category:Infinite_spend

[Khronn]

Okay, that came off as way more aggressive (and psychotic) than I intended...

I don't hate you nor am I mad or anything, just wanted to say that you have plenty of games on your accounts that could be considered "a bad value for money" or whatever.

I get annoyed when people just vomit "Just Emulate!" when it comes to old console games because for people who don't emulate a lot, they don't know that emulation isn't always easy and simple and there are still a lot of very old games, much starting around the early 3D era, that even to this day do not emulate without some major issues and can even be completely unplayable. :\

The Frostbite engine games are some of them. I haven't tried on GameCube but on PS2 the DA games have major performance issues + visual errors.

Emulating is also a legally gray area to begin with (in most places, it is considered illegal unless you own the actual system and games, and then you have to supply the emulator with the bios and ISO/ROM extracted from your own system and games, trying to emulate to 'preserve' isn't considered valid). The games never game to PC and instead of just during straight ports they do upscale them, and update the engine with performance and QoL enhancements like I said.

Meanwhile, the Final Fantasy PE games are just lightly touched up versions of the old games without any of the more fancy sprites or new content from the other re-releases. And I am bitter about that cause I bought them without doing research like an idiot and I feel like I wasted my money on them (would rather emulate whatever versions have the most added content to them, which AFAIK will be the PSP version for FF1+2).

[Tr0w]

Originally posted by Khronn:

Originally posted by Tr0w:

Because people should know who they're dealing with and it isn't the Black Isle that were involved with BG1+2 and DA1+2 or that made IWD1+2.

Why do you feel protective of blatant ripoff merchants?

>Halo Master Chef collection
Which is also not made by the old devs, not by the people or even the studio, and has some inferiority like no online 4 person campaign co-op while they did on the 360.

>The "Pixel Remaster" Final Fantasy games 1-6
That is like at least their 5th release for each game, at a minimum (And for some, way even more than that), were they try to be a 'return to form' and includes excluding content that were added on their PS1, GBA, and PSP re-releases and it can't be even be said about "trying to keep the original old Nintendo gameplay" because for FF1 they added Phoenix Downs (item for resurrecting party members mid battle) that weren't a thing in the NES version and they still keep all the shop price nerfs and other things (i.e. Chaos doesn't cast Death on his first turn), so there goes that argument. So they are just cash grabs with worse graphics and missing content than compared to the older crash grabs of the same games.

>Batman Arkham Knight
A game that holds exclusive content just for the PS3 version that PC players can never get and was sold on marketing lies (did not have 60FPS at launch but made fake gameplay footage with Nvidia showing 60FPS gameplay that wasn't possible till later. And I bet you have a Nvida GPU too, don't cha?), and it 'sstill a buggy unoptimized mess to this day, froma publisher that sees PC gamers as their second-class customers.

>Two games (Mech Warrior and Destiny 2) that are pay2win and/or not grind forever cash shop based MMOs
Oh god, what the ♥♥♥♥...

In contrast, this neo-Black Isle studio is simply taking a very old PS2-Xbox-Gamecube era game and is updating its engine and porting it to modern platforms. Games that I might add, use the Frostbite engine (that if you don't know, is a nightmare trying to emulate well even to this day), upscaling it to HD, and even upgrading the engine from 32bit to 64bit ( a lot of ports and remasters don't even do this which sucks because 32bit is outdated and are gonna cause memory issues due to hard the hard 4GB RAM use limit when trying to mod them and upscale the the resolutions as we slowly move onto 4k displays and beyond), and support for QOL things like borderless window. Without touching anything about the game play or the content of the game itself.

What is your excuse for buying the Final Fantasy PR collection, that both inferior to the older cash grabs, and the game already emulate very well?

And if you play freemium MMOs I will never take your word on anything being a bad value or a rip off while you throw your money on infinite spend games:
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Category:Infinite_spend

The FF PR collection was 6 games for not much money, i preferred the art over the chibi abominations in other versions, and there are quality of life improvements over other versions. They are also better games than Dark Alliance.

Halo MCC offered 7 games again for not a lot of money, each being superior to the OG versions as they can be played with mkb, have better visuals, and the first two games feature the originals and the remastered versions. They are also better games than Dark Alliance.

And you go on to prove that you don't know much on this subject, not even knowing what is or isn't an MMO and two, calling those games pay to win. You don't have to spend any real money in MWO to do well in matchmaking (played it for years casual and comp), and it ♥♥♥♥♥ all over DA in gameplay. Destiny 2 also ♥♥♥♥♥ all over DA and doesn't require you to buy anything from the in game store to play the game, it's also better than DA.

Arkham Knight i bought really cheap when it was getting panned for the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ PC version, then played when it had been patched. Great game imho, would probabaly have a different opinion if i played it on launch.

All the packages and games you listed are far and away better value for money than these games at £30 a pop.