After the Adam Smith interview, I actually think the best title is "Baldur's Gate: Absolution" after the Cult of the Absolute that has arrived in Baldur's Gate.
I’m still perplexed why it matters so much, not that I dislike your suggestion where Larian operating with just a working title... but it IS going to be BG3. People reallllllly need to get over this. Sorry buddy.
Yeah, and like I asked elsewhere ... Had the game come along exactly as the BG1&2 enthusiasts wanted (or imagine at least), but it was instead called "Baldur's Gate, Return to Faerun" instead of "Baldur's Gate 3," would they still be upset over the name?
A different name would have helped. Like -- Forgotten Realms: Rise of the Mindflayers. Or whatever.
As it stands it feels like the 5th edition game but not BG. (still not decided on this)
I'm still undecided, these are early days, I'll see if it actually feels like BG3 when I play it. It will come down to the quality of writing.
Right now it doesn't *look* infinity engine like and that's a problem. I wasn't entirely happy with the PoE engine but it did *look* a lot more like the infinity engine and I loved the PoE turn based mode.
Excited by:
Return to Faerun
Throwing random stuff
Hints of character development
Turn based! I always played BG in turn based mode. Pause. 2 seconds. Pause.
Not excited by:
Lack of hand painted backgrounds.
Skin -- I want to put my own portrait
Downplaying alignment. I want to play Chaotic Good, dammit.
Possibility that the intro could have the Chateu Irenicus flaw -- I don't want to slog through the same dungeon every time I replay.
