Originally Posted by Hilarian
I still don't know where these "most" people are outside of a few members. It's not intended to be a shade remake but every part I've been to, it's mostly been positive from Discord, Reddit, and even on this forum. There are the same few people who disagree, but I don't see most. There has to be a reason why games like old Baldur's Gate not popular anymore with the mainstream audience? Studios don't hate money, they go where the money is. When games like Pillar of Eternity 2 failed so badly, the studio stops making them and has to reconsider their strategy if they ever touch it again, and you think Obsidian could have done something better with just a different title? At the end of the day, these kinds of games are not what most people want, because there's no reason not to make it like old baldur's Gate if that's what most people.

It's not that they don't care; it's more like there's no reason to care about it. If they did go real time, it would be more or less in the vein of somewhere between Dragon Age Origin and Dragon Age Inquisition, but it's too late at this stage to really change the entire game's gameplay anyway.

Pillars figures were decent. Pillars 2 kinda bombed but would've sold so much more if it had multiplayer and better marketing. Like really, how many people bought and played DOS2 because they saw big twitch streamers playing with their friends and thought "oh thats cool, we can play actual dnd together !". I myself played with friends that didn't care too much about the game mechanics and such, they just had a blast playing DND with friends, just like when we were 12. They never played the game for a solo run either.

I believe a darker, truer, more "Baldurs Gate"esque game can be successful if done right, and brought to the public right. But you are right, Larian has no reason to take that risk. They will make a copy of DOS2, improve it, polish it, call that BG3, and sell millions of copies. Big streamers will play it (they already did with EA), game will get lots of exposure, and i believe it will be a good game. Hell, i'll probably play it a ton too.

But, the fact is the timeless BG saga will get transformed into something that it never was because, that sells. Such is the truth of the world we live in I guess, money is always right.

/rant off

Last edited by Turbo Left; 05/03/21 01:54 AM.