There are very few other rog devs at Larian's level. Certainly no AA ones. Bio, Obsidian, and the Twitcher devs are the only ones that come to mind. Diablo creators if you count that.
BioWare’s sun has set. Everybody who made their old games successful jumped ship a while ago. Obsidian is now owned by Microsoft, so will see how that works out. Ditto for Bethesda. CDPR are okay at making video games but bad at making RPGs, in my opinion. Blizzard doesn’t even make games anymore. They make monetization systems built around dopamine traps.
Kind of a dry cycle for RPG development, so I’m very appreciative that Larian are doing what they are doing.
That we can agree on. At least they're out there actually making RPGs that they want to make, and it doesn't just scream 'corporate' like a lot of AAA games do.
