I think I agree that I don't want a 4th installment of the series. Let's name it something else and have a brand new story. I'm frankly kinda tired of Bhaal and such. Let's have some stories about other things - maybe not even focused on the gods and like others have said, maybe not even the Sword Coast.
Can we have some video games about places NOT in any other games? One thing I really liked about Mask of the Betrayer was that it was about Rashemen and Thay and that whole region, and I liked how Storm of Zehyr was about Samargol (apologies if mispelled).
What about like the Beastlands or The Shaar Desolation region or Halruaa, or SOMETHING else. I mean, the Sword Coast is most popular, but it'd be nice to have some variety in story and setting.
Would I want Larian to develop it? Maybe. I guess it depends on how they finish with BG3. It's a great start, but it's not necessarily how you start that counts. It's how you finish. If they suck up the ending and I'm mad at it for ending poorly, I probably wouldn't want them to develop another Forgotten Realms game.
As of right now, I'm a bit nervous about them doing another Forgotten Realms game because there are so many NON-Forgotten Realms things in BG3. If the finished BG3 has respect for Forgotten Realms and they don't continue to disregard the source, sure. I'd love for them to make another Forgotten Realms game.
What do I mean?
Ceremorphosis. The main premise of the story. The ACTUAL process is considerably disregarded by BG3. They've created their own version of the steps of the process. More than one character says, "Day 1, memory and hair loss," or something similar. And they proceed to describe the process. Never once do they say, "Step 1. The tadpole eats your brain, immediately consuming your memories. Within a few hours, you're pretty much no longer you. You're dead. The tadpole has taken over your body. So the rest of the steps won't even matter to you. The only way to save a host is to kill them, crush or incinerate the tadpole, and then use True Resurrection to bring them back - or a similar spell like Reincarnate which will return you to being you just in a different body, reincarnated potentially as a different race, etc." Even Lae'zel doesn't say something like this, and she's an expert. Right?
Instead, they disregard the source material and make up their own version of it. And this isn't the only example, though I won't go into all the others I found so that I don't totally bog the thread down. The point is, if they're going to just disregard the source material, don't create another Forgotten Realms game. Just don't. Move on to something you can do whatever you want with without totally rewriting an already existing story and setting.
Last edited by GM4Him; 02/08/22 02:19 PM.
