Re: 2024 c.s.i.p.g.action Holiday Give-Away Day #00000008

On Mon, 09 Dec 2024 08:35:00 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On Sun, 08 Dec 2024 18:26:51 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

* Baldurs Gate Enhanced Edition
https://www.gog.com/en/game/baldurs_gate_enhanced_edition     

I borrowed a co(lleague/worker)'s original that were on like six CD-ROMs
around Y2K. It was an OK game. I will pass. I am more interested in the
newer one.

I have the DVD version. One disc. Made the whole thing far more playable.

I had the five-disc version, which came in a cardboard sleeve with
spots for six disk held together with glue that got all over the
discs. I remember being royally pissed off that Bioware (or Interplay)
cheaped out by using a cardboard disc holder rather than splurging for
a multi-disk jewel-case.

The six-disk version that came out later was the one that included the
expansion disc... which now makes me wonder: was that the plan from
the start? Even in 1997, was Bioware holding back content with the
plan on selling it later? They truly were a developer ahead of their
time!

I still have my original discs. The cardboard sleeve is long gone, and
good riddance!