Larian is a cool company. I'm not trying to accuse of them of doing anything shady.
There is certainly a mercenary element to the way they are handling this attempt at a Baldur's Gate game; that's fine when they're doing their own thing, but sucky when we're talking about something that predates them...something arguably seminal.
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Originally Posted by Swen Vincke
... so, the chance to do that, and to bring what basically is our RPG identity to Baldur's Gate as a franchise was an opportunity too good to resist. And so, what it will do for us... uh, what we think it will do for us is it's going to show a larger segment of people, because I think Baldur's Gate 3 will reach more people than Divinity will have done... it will show a larger segment of the population what our RPGs feel like and hopefully bring them to play our other games also.
I am really not interested in a new(er) studio trying to push their identity through a beloved established series. Sadly, this only confirms my initial suspicions of BG3. The game could still be decent on its own merits, sure, but it won't be Baldur's Gate.
I'll take a masterpiece like BG3 which doesn't stay 100% true to the previous episodes to a travesty like Diablo 3. Plus it doesn't cut out any possibility of a "true" sequel in the future.
