Uhm, to be fair the name Baldur´s gate is the name of a city in a setting of the game D&D created by Wizards of the Coast, a tabletop game created in 1974, with 40 years of history and 5-7 different editions, not only the name of two games. And they let Larian get the license to create a game after refusing several game studios all over the years, so they have all the right to call the game Baldur´s Gate 3 or whatever they want.
Sven Vincke, Mike Myers and Adam Smith were really forthright since the first interview, months ago, stating that they want to make a D&D5e game, using an improved version of the game engine of DOS; not based in the first games. Sven didn´t even know the endings of the first game when they asked him in an interview; Mike Mearl said repeatedly that the origins of the game will be in the D&D adventures Murder in BG and Descent into Avernus (I´m pretty sure that they leaked the news of the upcoming BG3 game the past summer to attract public attention and exposition for Stadia and the Adventure DiA that was published in September of the last year) so I wasn´t surprised about the gameplay.
It was never meant to be. They told us that from the start.
Last edited by _Vic_; 29/02/20 02:26 PM.
