Anyway, i do think Wizards has something else cooking. In 2019, they hired BioWare veterans Ohlen (lead designer for most of BioWare’s golden age games), Drew Karpyshyn (Mass Effect writer), and a few other BioWare veterans to start their own autonomous internal game development studio:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archetype_EntertainmentThey’re working on a new IP, but I wouldn’t be surprised if lessons about cinematics, reactivity, character customisation, tabletop simulation, and companion driven storytelling are being learned once more. The CRPG renaissance could go on for longer than anyone thought.
Sorry but no. Archetype's game is confirmed to be a sci-fi game in a new IP (and not necessarily an RPG). And WotC canceled five D&D-based games that were in development earlier this year, including two that had been in development for as much as three years, so they were quite far along, and one that was being developed by another internal WotC studio.
And for me, cRPG and AAA do not go together. BG3 is certainly an RPG, but it is not a cRPG. The cRPG is a dying genre, to be replaced by big-budget, fancy graphics, cinematic, full VO AAA RPGs, for better or worse.
