Posts like these is what kills tabletop RPG games. Variety is good. You like your open Skyrim world, I HATE these kind of 3D games. Gives me headaches.
I like my top down 3D world strategy games and playing god micro controlling everything
Its like saying, to hell with 2D pixel art games or indie games like Hades should all be in 3D first person...
HELL NO.
Its really kind of sad that you cannot see the appeal of such a game (BG3). The Witcher3 isn't really an RPG game in my book. Its a <run and gun> Action/Adventure Tell tale game marketed as a next gen RPG. And a VERY good one at that. Nowdays even Diablo (an Hack & Slash action game) is considered an RPG . lol that would gotten a good laugh in the 90s.
I have nothing against tabletop games, in fact, I wish more young people (all ages for that matter) would play these TT games, its a way to socialize, something our society sorely lacks these days!
I have nothing against Larian making BG3, but lets face it, Larian is known only for making isometric turn based RPG's and I believe that the future is in open world action/adventure RPG's . BG3 can be classified as action/adventure also, but its slow and its mechanics are stifling!
All I'm suggestion is that after BG3 (sometime next year when the console ports are released aka BG3 The Definitive Addition), Swen takes a look around and maybe just maybe says, lets do an open world RPG with our own IP! How great would that be?!
Also, its not me that "doesn't like turn based games" I played DOS 1 and 2, Solasta etc...its just that I had a ton, a TON, more fun playing games like The WItcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Skyrim, Oblivion, FAllout 3/4, MAssEffect Legendary Edition, Red Dead Redemption (and many more). All these games had a story, they had choices to make (yes, some more than others and some more consequential than others) but they were all great fun to play!
I'm sure that Larian is already plotting what their next game might be. But I will say that that might also be a big risk b/c Larian is not necessarily know for having good/balanced characters/weapons (DOS II as an example), the WotC rule set gave them that so all they had to do was translate to bits and bytes. With their own IP, they will have to do all the heavy lifting of making the game "balanced" which can be difficult.
But regardless, they will have to decide what the next game is going to be, BG3 will be done, is there another WotC game they can port or perhaps use another companies IP to port as a computer game, I don't know, I'm not that versed in the business.
But I do know, Larian wants to make money, who doesn't.
