Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General What are your expectations with this game?

i Think its gonna stay divisive.
Im pretty sure its gonna end up beeing a great game btu a lot of people will not like it.
Not even for it beeing BG3, but theres also a huge ammount of divisiveness about the divinity games.
They just dont appear to reasonate with people simply for beeing different frm the CRPG formula.

i think BG3 will be no different in that.
it very much reminds me of DnD edition warring or the debate between DnD and non DnD games like 13th age.

The infinity engine games had a certain cryptic nature to them. Hard to explain but the way the character sheets looked and the way things were structured.
To people not knowing ADnD or just playing a CRPG fo rthe first time, it can be mistifyign and thats part of the charm of those games.
Larian games are more clean in that.
Which takes away the magic for a few people.


As for what i personally suspect a pretty good game, however, due to it beeing a major risk i perhaps dont exactly expect a lot of experimentation.
Which is a shame because experimentaiton was larians thing, btu theyve broken into the Big leagues and now they cant allow themsleves to fuck up.
So i think the "lets try realy radical things" job now lies with owlcats WOTR.
Im realy kind of interrested how a tripple A ascending Larian game will look. With their latest games theyve gotten rid of some of their trademark Jank, but not all of it.
I think at this point its less about what i expect and more that im curious how it will turn out.
Especialy having seen the screenshots and them reminding me a lot of Dragon age, and then having seen the gameplay and that beeing... less so, for better or worse.

>Mass Effect Andromeda
i wouldnt worry, because the comparison simply isnt fair.
mass effect andromeda was a bad mass effect game according to the fans.
But according to most people it was... just a pretty bad game overall.
Your taste is your taste, i also like tons of games that other people consider to be terrible, such as dragonshard, or Enclave, or dark souls 2, but Andromeda had tons of obvious glaring issues.
From the very low variety of cool aliens, the terrible motion capture, the amateurish graphics (seriously who forgets to shade the eyes?), the deliberate uglyfication of the face scanned characters (look up the person that the female protagonists base look is based on, and tell me they look simmilar) and thats only starting to scratch the surface , cause i only bareley mentioned the blatant political baggage that it had.

So if anything, BG3 has only 50% of the hatred that ME:A had. Nameley the "you ruined our brand" hatred. Not the "you made a terrible game" one, or the "you are pushing a stupid narrative" one.