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Link 05-23-2001 10:45 AM

It's on page 3, in the yellow part...

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In the foul darkness one figure will emerge to save the world from evil and despair.... Light flashes as his sword comes down, and thunder rolls through the sky when he points his sword up to heaven to signal his victory....People whisper his name as he walks by, evil tries to hide as they sense his presence nearby.... His name? Link......

Larry_OHF 05-23-2001 11:37 AM

Concerning that Buffey thing. I think you have misunderstood it. This is a story that starts in Tales of the Sword Coast, and ends when you find this guy in Spell hold, in SoA. Read it again.
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The Dradedl story: The whole sordid Dradeel story:

Relevant Parties:
1) Dradeel - Elven Mage, first met on the Werewolf Isle in TOSC
2) Golodon the Unmanned - mortal enemy of Dradeel and a former employer of Jan Jansen's
3) The Gibbering Twelve - mysterious brotherhood of mages, not affiliated with the Purple Brotherhood (Socerous Amin and Sorcerous Amon - they're brothers)
4) Buffy - Golodon's pet mastiff
5) Golodon's Wife - never named, excellent resistance to mandrake poison.

The tale - Dradeel and Golodon, as young mages, made a raid on the HQ of the Gibbering Twelve. They stole numerous powerful and valuable magic items. They got away with it but were hunted for years by the Gibbering Twelve and their agents. Eventually, Golodon betrayed Dradeel, black-jacked him, took the stuff, and left him in the then town of Baldur's Gate to get picked up by the agents of the Gibbering Twelve.

Dradeel, on the run, managed to convince the great hero, Balduran, to allow him on his ship which was about to set sale on a grand adventure in the western seas.

The ship never returned. When you reach the Werewolf Isle, you find Dradeel, the only crew member of Balduran's ill-fated ship to not get infected with Lycanthropy. He's gone mad out of paranoia over teh werewolves, wolfweres and the Gibbering Twelve. You help him escape, after hundreds of years of being trapped on the isle.

In the meantime, Golodon used the artifacts and became a very powerful mage. He got married and eventually had a falling out with his wife, a powerful mage in her own right.

A few centuries later, a young Jan Jansen was hired as a house gnome for Golodon. It was his job to clean up after Buffy and to take care of the daily attempts at poisoning Golodon's ex-wife. The wife also had Jan on her staff. He was to attempt to poison Golodon every morning as well. This was where Jan began to learn magic.

Later, long after Jan had departed, Dradeel returned to the mainland after being freed by the player. Quite mad, he immediately killed Golodon and was captured by the local authorities. He was then sentenced to a life of imprisonment in the Asylum, where the player finds him in SOA.</font color>

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ShadowUK 05-23-2001 01:16 PM

I've read the story again.......It says the same as last time http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...es/biggrin.gif

*bump*

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Avatar 05-23-2001 01:25 PM

Thanks!

Epona 05-23-2001 02:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Larry_OHF:
Why do you have to wait for an official release date in England?
Why don't you have someone mail it to you from here, if it is gonna take so long???
I mean, I understand the need to wait if you are non-english speaking, but it seems that most of you here do not have that problem.


2 words:
IMPORT DUTY!

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Larry_OHF 05-23-2001 05:21 PM

Would you like me to smuggle you a copy, in a package that appears to have drugs in it or something???

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Lord of Alcohol 05-23-2001 05:25 PM

LOL Larry great idea! But really what if someone just took the manual and cd out of the great big stupidly oversized box and send them that way? Who would know then, its just a "used game" then eh?

Larry_OHF 05-23-2001 07:15 PM

We cold even put a fake music label on it, and who would take time to find out its true identity???
hehehe ToB smugglin...that's exciting...http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...miles/wink.gif

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Memnoch 05-24-2001 04:17 AM

Here's a preview from Gamespy. WARNING: This contains some MAJOR spoilers about NPCs and opponents faced in ToB.



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Draggor 05-24-2001 09:38 AM

What's the worry. We're getting it here in Australia in two weeks, I put my pre order in today, surely it will be about the same time in England. The last thing I read on interplays' site was that the game is finished and now they're just doing final testing for bugs and that was about a week ago.

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Accord 05-24-2001 08:49 PM

*BUMP*

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Larry_OHF 05-25-2001 09:12 AM

I just read on the Black Isle Studios forum where this guy posts "I know who the end boss is!", and then when you enter the post, you see that one of the Moderators has erased his answer, so that you cannot see...hmmmso if this guy found out, maybe we also have the ability to surf the net and find out, because obviously, he was right.
Personally, I don't think it is the Demogorgon. They showed that in the live video...they would not show us the end char. on the demo...

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Nazgūl 05-25-2001 10:36 AM

what demo?

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Nazgūl 05-25-2001 10:39 AM

what demo?

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Nazgūl 05-25-2001 10:42 AM

damn! double post! oh lets call it a bump shall we?

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Larry_OHF 05-25-2001 10:58 AM

This one: beware of spell spoilers and monster spoilers

http://www.planetbaldursgate.com/

Go down to: Thursday, May 24, 2001


Throne of Bhaal at E3
Thursday, May 24, 2001, 04:41 | MageDragon
<font color="white">E3coverage</font color>
Hope you have a fast connection!!!

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Simon 05-25-2001 12:18 PM

The tall dredlocked figure bursts in to the bar and cries "IS THIS WHERE I CAN GET A PINT OF FOREVER BREW?!" and then looks around in a slightly embarrassed fashion realising that he has interrupted the conversation.

Simon 05-25-2001 12:19 PM

oops wrong bar!

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Larry_OHF 05-25-2001 12:34 PM

<font color="red">Kill'em!!</font color>
<font color="white">Oops...sorry, not allowed to do that.</font color>
Drat.

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Accord 05-26-2001 12:58 PM

*BUMP*

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Epona 05-26-2001 01:40 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lord of Alcohol:
LOL Larry great idea! But really what if someone just took the manual and cd out of the great big stupidly oversized box and send them that way? Who would know then, its just a "used game" then eh?
Awww, won't it be in one of those nice new DVD cases? You know, the plastic ones that will still be filling up landfill sites when the cockroaches have finally taken over the planet as they are the only organism able to survive?

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Memnoch 05-27-2001 06:41 AM

MAJOR SPOILER WARNING: Here's a link to the portrait and stats of the new NPC in ToB. Very cool portrait, but don't say you weren't warned!

The new NPC

WARNING - I will delete ANY mentioning of this NPC's name on this or any other threads (accidental or otherwise) without a SPOILER warning and spoiler spaces. http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...miles/wink.gif

I have created a thread for discussion of the new NPC in ToB, PLEASE use this thread for ALL discussion, so we don't spoil anyone and all the info is in one place. No new threads on the new NPC other than the one below, ok? http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...miles/wink.gif

This is the thread.
http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/No...ML/006796.html

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Sigmar 05-27-2001 06:59 AM

This cant be happening, how is this possible, it should
not be. It is too good and too wrong at the same time. The new
npc is utter chaos!

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Who prodded Tiax?!
Prepare to feel the mighty magical powers
of Tiax... stop laughing!
(The "wise" words of Tiax.)

Phoenix 05-27-2001 06:30 PM

*BUMP*

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Accord 05-28-2001 02:53 AM

*BUMP*

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Rolzi_69 05-28-2001 05:54 AM

Well in actaul fact i didnt even no wot the throne of bhaal was b4 i came here http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...iles/smile.gif
lol

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Accord 05-28-2001 03:04 PM

*BUMP*

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Craig 05-28-2001 06:47 PM

Was his name craig?

SSJ4Sephiroth 05-29-2001 02:17 AM

whoa, we debated so long as to what that guy was on another board! we all thot he was a monk, boy were we wrong! and im glad that the WS class is improved, that no potion thing made no sense, just like Chewbacca. he does not make sense!

Larry_OHF 05-29-2001 08:29 AM

<font color="plum">Published 05/28/01 on BG Chronicles</font color>
<font color="gold">We asked what you were looking forward to the most in BG2: Throne of Bhaal, and Ending the Saga won with 1774 votes. Here are the full results:

Total votes: 6,269
Answer Votes Percentage
New Areas 828 13.2%
New Spells 290 4.6%
New NPC 345 5.5%
New Items 428 6.8%
Continuing Romances 952 15.2%
Wild Mage Kit 332 5.3%
New Monsters 180 2.9%
High Character Levels 1,140 18.2%
Ending the Saga 1,774 28.3%
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Accord 05-30-2001 02:04 PM

*BUMP*

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Accord 05-31-2001 03:59 AM

*BUMP*

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AzureWolf 05-31-2001 11:35 AM

bumparoona

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"I was born of darkness. My fathers eyes closed before mine opened. I am not of this world or the other, and I have the right to be what I am..."

"I've put my trust in you, pushed as far as I can go. For all this theres only one thing you should know....."

Accord 06-02-2001 02:53 AM

*BUMP*

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Leagle 06-02-2001 05:07 AM

*Thump!*

AzureWolf 06-02-2001 05:54 AM

*spank* http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...miles/hihi.gif

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"I was born of darkness. My fathers eyes closed before mine opened. I am not of this world or the other, and I have the right to be what I am..."

"I've put my trust in you, pushed as far as I can go. For all this theres only one thing you should know....."

Phoenix 06-02-2001 07:39 AM

Sounds like an old episode of Batman in here. http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...iles/smile.gif

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Avatar 06-02-2001 10:42 AM

Memmnoch can you delete the bump posts after they've bumped it. Scrolling is soooo tedious...thanks!

Draggor 06-05-2001 08:34 AM

This will make you feel better then
BBBBBBBBBBUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMPPPPPPPPPPPP PPP

Memnoch 06-12-2001 06:56 AM

Okay, at long last some news.

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Throne of Bhaal
David Gaider (Senior Designer)
Death Bow being useless: Death Blow isn't useless. Not every enemy you encounter is over 12 HD, and some with less HD can have some extremely annoying powers (illithids, beholders and elementals come to mind).

Perhaps you might want to keep in mind that Death Blow can be acquired, now, in the main BG2 game as well.

I've used it, and in the right cases it works just fine. Like all things, it is more or less useful to someone based on the tactics you use.

Of course, if you want to go ahead and grump at how useless something is just because you'd never use it yourself, than go ahead.

Knowing who the end boss is: Topics like this are funny because everyone will claim that they knew who the endboss was, anyway.

"Oh, yeah, gosh, it was SO obvious. How could you not know?"

Heh. Relax, fellas.

I mean, do you really want to sit around and piece together the whole game and ending before you even play it?

Yoshimo in ToB: I said this once before, elsewhere, but here it is again:

Yoshimo does not return. He is dead.
Derek French (Assistant Producer – Neverwinter Nights)
Infinity Engine: Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal will be the last BioWare game using the Infinity engine.

For BioWare, BG2:ToB is the last Infinity Engine game. I cannot speak for Black Isle, though.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic will be using a brand new 3D, thrid person view engine.

Rumors of ToB not being almost done: Completely untrue. It is still in QA right now. All the guys are working hard getting rid of these last bugs. So far, we have said it will be done "soon" for about a week now, but that is about as accurate as we can be now.

Status update: ToB is still in QA. We are working on the last bugs in the game and the game should be done soon. There was a fairly significant bug found Friday. It is fixed and the game is back in QA.

We don't have a release date for the game and any dates that you read from retailers are pure speculation on there part. Once the game is gold, we will be posting it here.

Becoming a play tester: Play Testers (or Quality Assurance as we like to call them) are hired like any other employee at BioWare. For QA, we are looking for people that have an eye for details and problem solving. A background knowledge of computer hardware and programming is an asset, but it is not required. Most of our QA guys come from a wide variety of backgrounds. It pretty much comes down to the interview for us.

To apply:

By mail:
BioWare Corp.
#302 10508 82 Ave
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6E 6H2

For e-mail, use jobs@bioware.com

For more BioWare job info:

http://www.bioware.com/info/jobs.html
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Sadly, no news of gold yet...

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