Originally Posted by Zress
I think people expected it to be BG3, engine or not engine, 100 years in the future or not. And if it wasn't going to be a true sequel, why call it BG3? I would guess marketing mostly. I really think that Larian gained enough renown with the RPG community that if they would just said that they are making a D&D 5e game people would be more than happy to buy and play it. It's like if Mass Effect 3 was a 1st person shooter 100 years in the future with different plot and massive visual redisign of everything. It wasn't really Mass Effect 3 right?


It has the name Baldur's Gate 3 because it is set in the WORLD of the Baldur's Gate games-namely Faerûn. I have no doubt that we will encounter many of the same creatures, & possibly some of the more long-lived inhabitants, that we encountered in the previous games. Truth is, the longer some of you people post, the more convinced I am that you're engaging in Gate Keeping. Well I hate to break it to you, but I was playing D&D back in the early 80's, so if anyone is entitled to Gate-keep, it would be someone like me. However, I'm so much more broad-minded. Maybe because I am a more mature person.