Yes, I do find the doomsday prophecies very tiresome. Most people can already tell that this game will be a success. The question is how big is gonna be. And it deserves criticism of course, why it needs it, that's the point of the EA. But still, acting like BG3 won't be a successful entry for both Larian and DnD games, is just not realistic.
I'm not really doubting that it will work out and end up a half-decent game. But will it have anything whatsoever with the franchise that lends its name to it? .
the game has a main villain called the absolute, whose symbol contains a piece of each of the dead threes symbols, A skeleton who is most likely Jergal, and a ritual site that resembles a Myrkul incantation circle, is in the game. If you're worried about the game not having any connection to the previous games, I'd say you have nothing to worry about.
I know that I'm a bit demanding, but I'm going to have to actually feel that connection during gameplay rather than just know intellectually that actually the game sort of touches on the things that was also technically part of the plot in the previous games, before I feel comfortable declaring that this game actually managed to be a sequel rather than a new take that uses the franchise name for promotional reasons.
The first two games were about Gorion's Ward and I'd expect this game to be about something that relates to said ward or events set in motion by them. But simply going back to Bhaal and his dimwit friends and their lame followers is something that I don't necessarily see connecting directly to what happened in the last two games.
Suppose we had a Black Panther movie and then a pretty good sequel to that. In both movies we follow the title character do what he does. Then we get Black Panther 3, except it takes place in the 24th century, it has no black panthers of any kind, and it's about a 24th century hero team that runs into the aliens that once upon a time crashed and provided the tech used by the Black Panther in the first two movies. Wouldn't you reckon that this would be a fairly weird sequel?
