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Ubiquitous wrote:
In article <utjjmv$2rgo2$1@dont-email.me>, gmkeros@gmail.com wrote:
Source:
https://www.polygon.com/24107939/baldurs-gate-3-larian-studios-no-more-dnd-wizards-of-the-coast
Now that Baldur's Gate 3 has been a huge success both critically and
financially, people are looking forward to what's next for developer
Larian Studios. However, according to studio founder Swen Vincke, the
future doesn't lie with the Baldur's Gate franchise or Dungeons &
Dragons as a whole.
That sounds like a very stupid decision.
It sounds like the whole studio got burned out making BG III. Maybe the
payoff wasn't worth the effort. My friend gave it a very negative
review on Steam. Also they are still competing with Elden Ring which on
the other hand is definitely a top seller.
Just think how much over the top BG IV will have to be, they would have
to spend a million man hours each throwing themselves into the game development. I think that's the real issue that it is slog work. How
would you like to be a slave lifting giant blocks to build a pyramid
funereal resting place for some self-obsessed pharaoh? The top games
cost 100s of millions of dollars to make. Maybe by this point in time
there is a game that costed over a billion to develop.
It sounds like a very sad decision but I wouldn't call it stupid. I'm
playing Divinity II on and off, and it is a work of art. I appreciate
Larian, but I've always thought Baldur's Gate was more for the unwashed
masses. Both the Shannara books and Lord of the Rings start with an
ignoble hero forced to pick up and go on the march. Can you even play
the game and not suspect that Sauron is behind it all? What drew me
back to the game several times was the image of a ring in an early chest
in the fortress-city of Candlekeep.
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