Infinity Engine

They don't...

They start to lose their... panache because of the graphics the gold and the systems it's kind of clunky but then you play Baldur's Gate 2 which is an old game On the old Infinity Engine, so like the Baldur's Gate 1, Icewind Dale, Planescape Torment, like the Black Isle Studios games.

And then you play Baldur's Gate 2.

That actually holds up really well because it's an isometric, hand-drawn game.

So instead, I wanted to celebrate Bioware's impressive impact, which will continue as long as studios are designing RPGs.

Even if Bioware ceased to exist after its incredible run of Infinity Engine games, it would still be considered an icon.

Baldur's Gate was, for so many people, the CRPG, defining an era of role-playing games and echoing across the decades.

We're still talking about it, and studios are still designing games built on that old foundation.

Without Bioware, we would not have the Pathfinder CRPGs, Pillars of Eternity or Tyranny, and Baldur's Gate 3 certainly wouldn't exist.

Obsidian, as we know it, would likely be a very different studio without Bioware.

If it existed at all, it formed after the closure of Black Isle Studios, which published Baldur's Gate, and relied on Bioware's Infinity Engine for Icewind Dale and Planetscape Torment.

That relationship continued under Obsidian, with the team following up Bioware's Neverwinter Nights and Knights of the Old Republic were celebrated sequels before making Pillars of Eternity Baldur's Gate's spiritual successor.

What was that game called? That's going to bug me forever now.

So, yeah, like Ballers Gates in the D&D universe, it uses what was the name of the engine? But we have Beamdog is another company that's like in that area that came out of Infinity Engine.

It was called the Infinity Engine.

That's the big thing from Bioware.

they created a game engine that was then licensed out to, uh, other companies that work for like inter inter interplay.

And so like, yeah, Planescape Torment, I wouldn't have Planescape Torment cause that runs off the infinity engine games like Iceway and Icewind Dale came off the infinity engine.

A lot of great stuff came off of that.

Beamdog remastered those, those old games off the infinity.

The Icewind Dale games are the tits.

All of those Infinity Engine games, man.

Except for Planescape Torment.

I know that's supposed to be one of the world's best games.

And later, they were great help when lending us their engine for Witcher 1, sharing their wisdom and even giving us a spot at their E3 booth, end quote.

That was the Aurora Engine, Bioware's follow-up to the Infinity Engine, and was used for Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, and, as Nowakowski said, the Witcher, the RPG that introduced CD Projekt to the world and marked the beginning of the journey to game industry powerhouse.

In a 2014 interview with Polygon, the other CD Projekt co-founder, Marcin Iwinski, talked about the studio's early days working with Bioware and Interplay and how it moved quickly to work on The Witcher after Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance fell through.

Quote, It all started in a way with Baldur's Gate.