Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General The importance of this game.

I don’t think being a spiritual successor to BG hurt PoE artistically, because without that it wouldn’t exist. PoE was specifically conceived as a spiritual successor. Obsidian was on the verge of closing up shop for good and they needed something they could make relatively cheaply and would actually sell well, so they banked on nostalgia.