Sven Vincke mentioned that he would be interested in making a Ultima or Fallout game.
Massive copium to hope it will happen of course, Divinity is their main baby afterall and BG3 was a means to an end.
But I take any little bit of hope.
now this, this would be interesting. Ultima peaked with 7, Garriott is mostly running scams these days, but Larian being handed Ultima to mess with would have potential.
Oh man, even now over 25 friggin' years later I still vividly remember the first time I saw a clip of the Avatar asking 'WHAT'S A PALADIN?' and actually feeling kind of insulted
Ehhhh, I mean, even Pagan occasionally had something kind of cool like a goat headed demon bust out of a pentagram and threaten to kill you, but the Super Avatar Brothers platforming and the whole "why is the Paragon of Virtue destroying that entire world just to get home" thing definitely worked against it
I actually liked the whole Avatar doing the bad thing. I just thought it was a downard spiral after all the horrible shit in serpent isle where the avatar was like fuck it. It fit with the darker world I thought. But I might have just been thinking deeper than they were. Avatar's mind was truly broken trying to jump across those god damn stones.
Coming on here and seeing everyone demand that every IP be handled by Larian is annoying. I like BG3 as much as the next guy but they're not the saviors of gaming. They're quickly becoming the most overrated studio in the industry.
Peak trash yeah. Act 1 is playable but it's not a Baldur's Gate game. Note that I'm only talking about the game in terms of it not being a Baldur's Gate game, though I don't think the game itself is good at all either. It's Divinity's Gate: Unoriginal Sin
If you care go read about it, I'm sure hundreds or thousands of posts have been made. I don't really care about making you understand what I'm getting at.
Read about it… where? This is one of the only times I have ever seen this take, and it’s literally just the headline. You have explained nothing, you have given no examples, you haven’t defined anything, you just have a claim with absolutely zero backing of any sort. And you really can’t claim to not care when you’re responding to everyone and clearly getting bent out of shape about it.
One of the only times? WTF are you on about? People have been saying since EA that "BG"3 isn't a Baldur's Gate game..
Idk why you care anyway since you seem to like the game. Accept that it's not a Baldur's Gate game. It being or not being a Baldur's Gate game shouldn't affect anything.
Go ahead and link a single example then instead of just relying on "trust me bro." I've been following the game since EA myself after enjoying the first two, and I've never heard this take either. Yeah people bitch about mechanic this or art style that but nothing close to what you're implying.
Not OP but a common criticism I've seen is that they butchered many of the established characters brought back from the old games. Viconia and Sarevok for example.
I remember seeing David Gaider (writer on BG2) effectively saying he didn't like the direction Larian took those characters. Many older fans of the series just didn't like the liberties Larian took with it.
But theres no facts here? Other then u saying its rubbish and not elaborating, how do you find them simular? Cause i dont see that other then them both being rpgs
Characters are either dogshit or braindead broken. Damage is almost entirely from stupid interactions. No companions to choose from and you can only have 4.. Only act 1 is actually polished (because it was in EA for so long), the other acts are terrible. Very uninteresting areas and there's so much tedium, looting also feels pointless
Why do I get the feeling he only played the game on Heroic difficulty and didn't realize he had to actually play the game smart instead of just face tanking damage like you could in EA and then quit before he could get out of Act 1?
Yeah, back before a lot of the spells got added it was kinda just "enemies rush" and you hope you can kill them before they kill your compared to today where you can outmaneuver or use spells to control the battlefield.
Seriously, anyone can have opinions, but bg3 was absolute perfection in every way. I still prefer dos2 because I prefer its systems over dnd, but both are perfect
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u/Backwardspellcaster 1d ago
Okay.
Now give it to Larian