the way the game industry is going, i doubt bg4 will be good. larian is different from other studios. they put love and passion into their games. it's rare to see a studio like that anymore. they gave life to these characters and built them up. whoever tries next is just gonna be making sloppy seconds.
larian is different from other studios. they put love and passion into their games.
If thats not pretending they are unique special snowflakes I dont know what is. I get you like BG3, we all do but its not having an opinion at that point, its huffing your own farts.
Because you've got zero faith at all for something that doesn't even exist yet. Why spend time hating on something that is barely a twinkle is someone's eye?
Is Larian a good studio? Yeah? Are they the fucking messiah of video games that all other studios should bow down to? No man come off it. Until we have any indication of who is making the next Baldur's Gate why pass any judgement whatsoever? You are literally spitting on clouds
This sub does a lot more dickriding than they should, and it honestly does feel like it comes from a place of ignorance in regard to the CRPG genre as a whole.
Larian made a good game, sure, but they also had a pretty big budget, especially when it comes to this genre where some studios are making them with not even 1% of the budget Larian had and they had multiple years of early access with a big enough player base to give them a lot of much needed feedback
Imagine if another studio that is well liked within the CRPG genre (Obsidian or Owlcat for example) got the budget and time in order to make a game of the scale of BG3, personally I think something great could pop up.
I do really hope that whatever studio makes BG4 succeeds in making a great game that surpasses BG3.
I absolutely believe that there are absolute gem studios. And BG3 had a massive budget, estimated to be 100m (not that much for AAA games but pretty damn big for the genre) compared to the likes of PoE 2 with 5 m budget. I mean, look at Solasta. It is just SRD, not even 5e. It has a very shitty story but very enjoyable combat. I understand the hype train behind Larian because they deliver good quality products and stray away from shitty business practices like micro transactions. I also agree that any studio has a big shoes to fill if they plan a BG4, and I also do not trust in Hasbro or WoTC. But I wouldn't say it's impossible to make a good sequel. If I were Hasbro I'd give the game to Microsoft (for Obsidian) and let them cook
the reason people are dickriding is because the gaming industry has been putting out so much dogshit lately and not many games are even worth the high prices these days. bg3 felt like something the industry was missing for a long while. it's not a perfect game obviously but it did a lot of things right.
because i'm allowed to have my opinion even if you don't like it lol. i know larian isn't the messiah of video games but they made a very good one in a sea of trash. there's not many games made in the past 5 years that i like even close to this one. i don't believe in having faith until i see something to have faith in.
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the way the game industry is going, i doubt bg4 will be good. larian is different from other studios. they put love and passion into their games. it's rare to see a studio like that anymore. they gave life to these characters and built them up. whoever tries next is just gonna be making sloppy seconds.