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''Baldur's Gate'' is a franchise of role-playing video games set in the Forgotten Realms ''Dungeons & Dragons'' campaign setting. The game has spawned two series, known as the Bhaalspawn Saga and the Dark Alliance, both taking place mostly within the Western Heartlands, but the Bhaalspawn Saga extend to Amn and Tethyr. The Dark Alliance series was released exclusively to consoles and was critically and commercially successful. The Bhaalspawn Saga too was critically received using pausable realtime gameplay; it was credited for revitalizing the computer role-playing game (CRPG) genre. While the Bhaalspawn Saga was originally developed exclusively by BioWare for the Personal Computer, in 2012 Atari revealed that Beamdog and Overhaul Games would remake the games in HD. The Dark Alliance series was originally set to be developed exclusively by Snowblind Studios, but ports were handled by Black Isle Studios, High Voltage Software and Magic Pockets with the second game being developed exclusively by Black Isle. Black Isle Studios had planned a third series to be set in the Dalelands and be a PC exclusive hack and slash game with pausable real-time gameplay. The game would not have been connected to the Bhaalspawn Saga series and was cancelled when Interplay forfeit the D&D PC License to Atari 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Foletto explains the Black Hound )〕 The series was revived in 2012 with the announcement of ''Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition'', an update of the original Baldur's Gate using an enhanced Infinity Engine. The release of the remake would mark the first release in the series in eight years. The remake was followed by a remake of the second Baldur's Gate called ''Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition''. Beamdog has been granted permission to develop new games with the license, with two games in development, codenames ''Adventure Y'' and ''Adventure Z''; with ''Adventure Y'' revealed as being ''Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition - Siege of Dragonspear''.〔http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-01-09-baldurs-gate-1-and-2-enhanced-edition-team-making-new-in-between-game〕 ==Games== The ''Baldur's Gate'' series brought many technical advancements over computer-based role-playing games of the past. BioWare's Infinity Engine offers a pre-rendered isometric worldview, with sprite-based characters. ''Baldur's Gate'' was also the third computer game ever to make use of the Lua scripting language. The engine was also used for ''Planescape: Torment'' and the ''Icewind Dale'' series. The games are based on a real-time modification of the second edition ''AD&D'' (''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'') ruleset. The player's party can have up to six members, either created by the player according to the ''AD&D'' rules or NPCs recruited by the protagonist from the game world. Numerous side quests and plot twists are associated with particular NPCs and can be activated if they are found in the player's party. Through extensive, context-dependent dialogue, many characters inside and outside the player's party are fleshed out and given an added level of complexity. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baldur's Gate (series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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