Ostriig on 1/6/2019 at 14:27
While not officially confirmed by Larian, it very much looks like they've been tapped by WotC to do a Baldur's Gate 3. If you go to (
https://larian.com/) https://larian.com/ you'll find it's been replaced by a single teaser image of a III logo and, naturally, this prompted people to go digging around in the backend. What they found is lines referencing "Baldur's Gate" and "Wizard's of the Coast" in the header of the video file as you can see in (
https://old.reddit.com/r/baldursgate/comments/buu66i/could_it_be/) this reddit thread, though this was a couple of days ago and those bits have since been replaced and the logo's gotten a pair of tentacles slapped onto it.
Anyway, pretty standard marketing tricks by now, so an official announcement should be coming soon. You could argue that maybe it's Divinity: Original Sin 3 and Larian are just trolling, but it seems like a pretty stupid idea to risk irritating both WotC and your fans in one fell swoop.
Personally, I'm on the fence about this. I've been pining for a proper new Forgotten Realms CRPG by an experienced developer for a while now, but my previous experience with Larian left me lukewarm. I definitely liked some of their ideas, but between the humorous writing and the Turn-Based combat I drifted away from D:OS after a couple of hours. Obviously, though, some will love the prospect of a TB D&D game, and given console considerations and prior art, it's likely to be just that. My other concern is the manner in which this will tie in to WotC's new campaign, (
https://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products/baldursgate_descent) Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus, which appears to be Baldur's Gate in name only and otherwise take place almost completely in the first layer of hell. Hope it's not the same for the videogame, forty hours of blasted landscapes and the Blood War don't seem too appealing to me.
On the bright side, I seem to recall D:OS 2 also came with a very powerful campaign editor. If this new BG3 ships with an editor to match the features and accessibility of the NWN Toolset back in the day, we might have plenty of good community modules to look forward to.
Jason Moyer on 1/6/2019 at 14:48
It's kind of weird to me even using the name "Baldur's Gate" for a new game unless it's either related to the Bhaalspawn trilogy in some way or actually, you know, includes Baldur's Gate in it somewhere.
Tony_Tarantula on 1/6/2019 at 15:13
Meh.
I'm personally of the opinion that the current state of the US game industry isn't capable of creating a truly great, epic game like the original Baldur's Gate. It's worth noting that a lot of the most recent games that fit that bill are from foreign studios.
Count me skeptical until proven otherwise.
Nameless Voice on 1/6/2019 at 15:46
Larian are Belgian.
Ostriig on 1/6/2019 at 22:15
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
It's kind of weird to me even using the name "Baldur's Gate" for a new game unless it's either related to the Bhaalspawn trilogy in some way or actually, you know, includes Baldur's Gate in it somewhere.
I hope they don't dig up the Bhaalspawn plot for anything more than nostalgia-baiting references, between Throne of Bhaal and WotC's Murder in Baldur's Gate canon it's already got two conclusions to pick from.
icemann on 2/6/2019 at 04:30
I wish they'd make the final 3rd game in the Baldurs Gate - Dark Alliance games. Those games were excellent. Yes I know they are nothing like the PC games, but they don't need to. Just annoying as we got 2 out the 3 planned games, so the story never got fully done.
Due to the success of the 2 games, the engine used went on to be used in heap of other action RPGs. Some good, some not so much.
I used to wish all the time for a sequel to Shadowrun on the SNES, and then that actually happened (unbelievably ). So anythings possible.
Tony_Tarantula on 4/6/2019 at 19:11
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
Larian are Belgian.
They are?
Fantastic. That helps a bit. I'm still not sure how you make a named sequel because the expansion pack was very decisive in ending the story arc.
Nameless Voice on 6/6/2019 at 17:28
[video=youtube;OcP0WdH7rTs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcP0WdH7rTs[/video]
Larian confirmed.
reizak on 6/6/2019 at 21:11
Well that's a more graphic look into the Illithid life cycle than necessary, but I'm definitely interested in a new Baldur's Gate. My biggest concern is that if it's in the style of Original Sin in the same engine we're probably not getting the sort of scale that I'd expect from BG. I like D:OS 2 well enough (1 not so much), but the games feel like you're pottering around in a pretty cramped little playground.
