Originally Posted by MarcHicks
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.


It has nothing to do with gate keeping, I am also an old player, I was there when BG1 and 2 where new, and love to see new blood in the RPG space, and I am very glad that Larian are making a D&D game, because I love their games and I know that they are the best people to create such a game, also, everyone can go and play the old games and decide for themselves. I think that the game is amazing so far, I truly am having a blast. It just have nothing to do with Baldur's Gate, the fact that the city Baldur's Gate is in the game doesn't really say much, there was no Baldur's Gate in BG2 it was in another part of the world.
Neverwinter Nights, Icewind Dale, Sword Coast Legends, and many many other games are set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting and have many characters and lore in common. But you don't call them Baldur's Gate.

The point is that Larian are making an amazing game, that feels very different from the first two games, and kinda feels like a marketing stunt more than anything else to me. Just like the adventure WoTC released, Baldur's Gate: Decent Into Avernus. You have Baldur's Gate for a tiny bit at the start with some minor easter eggs and then you continue on with the campaign that have nothing to do with the Bhaal spawn or anything else from the BG franchise. I think that they are playing here on nostalgia.