Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General I always knew they listened to us really :)

As an older professional with very little time to play video games, I almost exclusively play cRPGs. I passionately love the old IE games and the NwN, PoE, and Pathfinder series of games. I follow, and have for decades, cRPG news and cRPG devs closely. But up until D:OS2 I never ever saw Larian as a dev that I needed to pay any attention to, including even relative to small indie devs. Even in a top-20 cRPG devs list, Larian would not have been there. Once D:OS2 to came along, then of course I learned about Larian for the first time. But the game itself was meh to me, and my knowledge of Larian was entirely based on reading gaming news and not from playing their games myself. I tried D:OS1 and found it to be an utterly poor game (it's the nicest I can be in describing the game). And so for me, the ONLY reason I am on this forum is because Larian's current project is named "Baldur's Gate III." Anything else and Larian would not even be on my mind as a cRPG developer.

So no, Larian is NOT the be-all-end-all of cRPG devs, and to make such a claim only serves to shred the credibility of the person making such a silly and lame claim.

Edit: I might also add that as a hardcore cRPG fan going on 25 years, I despise Skyrim. And yet I'd much rather play a Skyrim-like RPG than D:OS2 any day.