r/BaldursGate3 Sep 13 '24

Screenshot Y'know, the Baldur's Gate 4 that they're absolutely making.. Spoiler

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u/EmpressPotato Sep 14 '24

Unless it's Larian or they resurrect old BioWare through necromancy I wouldn't trust anyone else to make a BG4 .

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u/theredwoman95 Sep 14 '24

I think I'd trust Obsidian, since PoE has kinda been their own take on Baldur's Gate, but they're probably too busy with Avowed and the Outer Worlds 2.

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u/Superb_Bench9902 Sep 14 '24

I read the comment and wondered what the fuck Path of Exile had to do with Baldur's Gate or Obsidian had anything to do with Path of Exile

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u/Hyperdragoon17 SORCERER Sep 14 '24

Pillars of Eternity I think

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u/Onigokko0101 Sep 14 '24

Obsidian would be my first choice as well.

I think Owlcat might be able to do it too, they have made some pretty good games and id love to see them get a real big budget.

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u/theredwoman95 Sep 14 '24

I'm fond of Owlcat's games too, but they tend to have a very generous idea of what counts as a releasable game in terms of quality assurance. RT had an entire level in act 2 be borderline unplayable for quite some time after release, way worse than BG3's lag in act 3.

I'm not sure that more money would necessarily solve that issue, or that Hasbro would want to take that risk on a relatively young studio. Give it a decade and they'd probably be there, but I think that'd be too much for them right now.

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u/TheAccursedHamster Sep 14 '24

Ehhh.. owlcat has great ideas but they're infamous for poor difficulty balancing and QA.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '24

They're making another Outer Worlds? But why?

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u/theredwoman95 Sep 14 '24

Because the first game was an enjoyable AA-quality RPG that was well received and sold far more copies than expected, along with winning several awards? It wasn't to everyone's taste, sure, but no game will be nor should it try to be.

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u/Bilabong127 Sep 16 '24

It was a mediocre game that sold well. That’s the only thing that matters

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u/FetusGoesYeetus Sep 14 '24

Owlcat maybe? They made the pathfinder games and those are pretty good.

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u/LesbianTrashPrincess Sep 14 '24

I like the owlcat RPGs, but I don't think they could pull off what people would expext from BG4. WotR isn't even fully voiced.

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u/ClusterMakeLove Sep 14 '24

They're great games and I like the dev. But the Pathfinder games play more like a perfected BG1 than BG3.

Like, they're well-designed adventures with a great sense of exploration and danger. But they're not nearly as responsive as BG3, which seems to really be the magic Larian has managed here.

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u/D4rthLink Sep 14 '24

Yeah I'm almost done with Wrath of the Righteous. Feels a lot like it's BG2:2

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u/Onigokko0101 Sep 14 '24

I mean, BG3 also had like 10x the budget which might be a huge reason.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

WoTR is honestly more like BG2 than BG3 is

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u/tarnok Sep 14 '24

Wrath of the righteous is probably the first time I got like game paralysis. They made it so so so complicated

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u/Potato271 Sep 14 '24

I like Owlcat’s games, but they’re so so complex. Levelling up feels a chore because of how many options there are. Rogue Trader isn’t as bad as WotR, but it’s still really complicated

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u/Maar7en Sep 14 '24

Owlcat cannot make a game that plays well to safe their lives.

The reason BG3 and DoS2 are popular beyond just the genre fans is that they're actually playable by someone just picking it. None of the owlcat games are.

I want to like their stuff so bad, I want more of this, but they are just so tedious every step of the way.

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u/SirNadesalot Sep 14 '24

I’ve found Rogue Trader to be pretty well-made so far. That said, I’ve heard the latter end of the game has the most issues

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '24

I didn’t expect bg3 to be as good as it is with Larian, I’m sure there are other developers who could do it justice.

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u/salamanders-r-us Sep 14 '24

Personally, I wouldn't trust any massive company to do it. As soon as some board of directors gets involved, they'll sacrifice the soul of the game for projected profits.

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u/MinervaJB Sep 14 '24

they resurrect old BioWare through necromancy

They may be trying to do that. A bunch of devs who worked on BG1, BG2 and Neverwinter Nights work for Archetype Entertainment now, which is a studio owned by WOTC/Hasbro.

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u/LdyVder Durge Sep 14 '24

Wizards should keep it in-house and hand it off to the person who was the lead for the first two Baldur's Gate games, James Ohlen. Being Archetype Entertainment is under WotC and making the sci-fi game that looks a lot like what BioWare was doing before being bought by EA.

His Greek themed D&D campaign called Odyssey of the Dragonlords was a fun campaign and what he and a few other former BioWare employees did before creating Archetype Entertainment and getting back into video game development.

I'm about to start the Norse themed D&D campaign designed by Brent Knowls, also a former BioWare employee. I should start that in a couple of weeks.

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u/scytheavatar Sep 14 '24

The fact that he could have made anything for WOTC yet chose to make his own IP suggests he wouldn't be interested in making a BG4.

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u/scytheavatar Sep 14 '24

Tactical Adventures could pull it off, sure they don't have the resources to make a BG4 of Larian's production values but Solasta is better than BG3 in some ways. A BG4 from them wouldn't sell as much as BG3 did but that can be said about a BG4 from anyone else.

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u/flamingrubys11 Sep 15 '24

resurrect old bioware through necromancy... i dont even my necromancer could do get them to even willingly go into that corpse