I can't tell you that there's no logic to it. They want to attract a NEW audience to the old franchise. That's why game has cut scenes and many features are simplified. To make it easier for people who are not familiar with BG and DnD to understand. If they wanted to please old BG fans, they wouldn't even think about the cutscenes, obviously. Many new players have not even heard about such a game as BG, they literally learned about its existence thanks to BG3. Imagine, it's been 20+ years. People who are now 20-25 years old may never have heard of this game, because it is very old. Even if they heard about it, they probably weren't playing. This has its own logic. You were attracted by the name, and others were attracted by everything else.
In theory, Larian can revive franchise, but, of course, not for you, but for a new generation of players.
I have no idea why you're saying that old BG fans wouldn't like cutscenes. Unless you're arguing that old BG fans want only the mechanics and game features that were in BG 1&2 and no more, which is such an incredible strawman that there's not much more to say.
Reviving the franchise isn't mutually exclusive with making a game that's true to D&D 5e, and the presence of cutscenes even more so isn't mutually exclusive with D&D.
My judgment is based on what people say "I don't need cutscenes, they should have invested in something else" and "look at Pathfinder" where there are no cutscenes either. It all comes down to the fact that at least the cutscenes for BG fans are the least important. But cutscenes will 100% attract new players from other, more action RPGs. I was talking more about old fans, not about DnD.
Wut about DnD, I was talking about simplifying the rules. Many people here are convinced that everyone who plays video games has played DnD and knows the rules. This is not true. This is why simplify rules to reach a larger audience is logical.
I don't believe that one can use "love" to describe one's feelings for something that one doesn't actually understand. So no, I don't believe Sven was being truthful when he said that they "love DnD" considering that they don't seem to understand the rules, or their significance to being what makes it "DnD".
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The cool thing we found is that a lot of what makes D&D, D&D, actually survived the translation, so I think that if you like Dungeons and Dragons and you want to play BG3, you’re going to be happy."
-Swen Vincke
https://www.pcgamesn.com/baldurs-gate-3/larian-interviewThis is a very inaccurate statement as it stands, since very little of "DnD" has survived Larian's attempt to translate it. He should replace DnD with DOS2, because the game is far more like DOS2 than it is Dungeons and Dragons.
This is your personal, very subjective opinion, not an argument. BG3 have DnD elements u know, world itself, dice system and much more, maybe they were talking about it? There IS NO WORD in this quote THAT THEY WILL 100% FOLLOW THE RULES.
Vincke said the creators approached the project by working out “the rulesets very meticulously and then seeing what worked and what didn’t work. For the things that didn’t work, because it is a videogame, and D&D was made for playing as a tabletop game, we came up with solutions”.
https://www.pcgamesn.com/baldurs-gate-3/dungeons-and-dragons-fifth-edition
