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

So we've got Obsidian, ZA/UM, Black Isle, Larian, Bioware, Owlcat, inExile.

Obsidian, Black Isle, Bioware, and inExile, are all part of the same tradition. Troika too, to some extent. Their works are pretty well known and are for the most part well loved by me.

I falter where I firmly trod. ZA/UM. Disco 2, is still happening but It'll be interesting to see HDB breaking up Unions, quoting Alan Greenspan, and putting Atlas Shrugged into his mind palace; excuse me while weep bitter tears.

Iron Tower studio's Age of Decadence was great, can't wait for Colony Ship.

We have a few Russians with one-offs. Atom RPG I never finished, but it came across as Fallout light, or Fallout: Roadside Picnic. I'd put Encased as a more polished Atom RPG, with a much more interesting character creator. Underrail I think reminded me most of the Avernum games by Spiderweb Studios, maybe with a little dwarf fortress, I didn't play much of it. It also makes me think of Undertale for no reason, so I'll give it +1 lvl.
The Russians teams are all newer, so their games being all one-offs I guess is to be expected, but I'm not seeing anything on the horizon either. Based on the Russian modding scene I find it odd how lackluster the games coming out of there are, maybe there are some untranslated gems.

Deus Ex, another franchise snapped up and rebooted in the renaissance, I don't know how much about Ion Storm, but lead dev Warren Spector also worked for Looking Glass Studio, which did the Ultima games. In hindsight this makes sense for Deus Ex, the divide between Ultima type rpgs and Baldur's Gate-type rpgs. I've always bounced off the Ultima games, despite Morrowind being one of my favorite games, and Deus Ex for that matter.

Warren Spector, seems to be working on an immersive sim; "in conjunction with OtherSide Entertainment", might be worth keeping track of that now.

I have played Punch Club. I've read and watched a lot of boxing manga/anime. I don't think anyone else could appreciate Punch Club. A better version of Punch Club, might be Chroma Squad by Behold Studios. Behold also did the Knights of Pen and Paper game, which is...not an idle-clicker I'm pretty sure.

Harebrained Schemes did Shadowrun, I Kickstarted Shadowrun, of the three Hong Kong would be my pick too. The most recent news on their webpage is from 2020. The most recent news article I could find about Jordan Weisman was him working on a "blockchain based card game". Yikes.

I liked the first God of War game, but even by my lax definition of what an RPG is, I'm not sure it should be here.