Baldur's Gate III announced!

[Johnny Awesome]

In other words, they can afford to make bad business decisions like not making DLC for the Game of the Year.

Usually companies that make bad business decisions eventually pay for them. We'll have to see how things go over the years for Larian ...

Everyone's worried about gaming layoffs and yet Larian could have hired some to do DLC for BG3 while working on DOS3, but didn't. Too bad.

 

[Cyan]

In other words, they can afford to make bad business decisions like not making DLC for the Game of the Year.

Usually companies that make bad business decisions eventually pay for them. We'll have to see how things go over the years for Larian ...

Everyone's worried about gaming layoffs and yet Larian could have hired some to do DLC for BG3 while working on DOS3, but didn't. Too bad.

we aren't in the studios' kitchen so to speak, when you are in the kitchen things happen that other people don't know about. Maybe Hasbro didn't behave correctly with them

 

[Bludd]

In other words, they can afford to make bad business decisions like not making DLC for the Game of the Year.

Usually companies that make bad business decisions eventually pay for them. We'll have to see how things go over the years for Larian ...

Everyone's worried about gaming layoffs and yet Larian could have hired some to do DLC for BG3 while working on DOS3, but didn't. Too bad.

or they figured, the game doesnt need a dlc and they instead tinker a bit with what there is

i think there is integrity and strength there by not just going ham with seasons and expacs and dlc skin packs or whatever they could have done and made the game worse

maybe its a bad business decision in pure dollars but in class and artistic integrity its good

edit: re cyans point, maybe hasbro pushed for all the enshittification stuff i mentioned and larian said no thanks and walked away

 

[Cyan]

edit: re cyans point, maybe hasbro pushed for all the enshittification stuff i mentioned and larian said no thanks and walked away

Judging from this tweet from Larian Studios boss which I've found a few minutes ago, and some other articles, he has been quite feisty at GDC, it seems they don't want to work on DLC nor expansions, because it's not their style.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1770794329704898969

Larian is finished with Baldur's Gate: 'We're going to move away from D&D and we're going to start making a new thing'

Larian boss Swen Vincke said the studio's ambitions are too big, and life is too short, to be making Baldur's Gate 3 expansions.

www.pcgamer.com

"We are a company of big ideas. We are not a company that's made to create DLCs or expansions," Vincke said during his GDC address. "We tried that actually, a few times. It failed every single time. It's not our thing. Life is too short. Our ambitions are very large."

 

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I hope they will license their engine.
Simulating d&D ruleset is not an easy task.

 

[Cyan]

Larian: Baldur's Gate 3 has almost sold twice as much as Divinity Original Sin 2 thus far (so around 15 million copies) News - Sales

I thought this was an interesting tidbit from the Gamespot interview (1:50, if the timestamp doesn't work) https://youtu.be/egQgPD1wd7A?si=HsWIlCJfrx4oVArs&t=111 For reference, the last time they gave us an update on DOS2's sales was back in 2019 when they said it sold three times that of...

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Baldur's Gate 3 Was Supposed to Let You Visit Hell, the Gith Plane, and Turn Ketheric Thorm

Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke revealed some of the big cuts made to Baldur's Gate 3, including a visit to Hell and the Gith plane.

wccftech.com

 

[eastmen]

Judging from this tweet from Larian Studios boss which I've found a few minutes ago, and some other articles, he has been quite feisty at GDC, it seems they don't want to work on DLC nor expansions, because it's not their style.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1770794329704898969

Larian is finished with Baldur's Gate: 'We're going to move away from D&D and we're going to start making a new thing'

Larian boss Swen Vincke said the studio's ambitions are too big, and life is too short, to be making Baldur's Gate 3 expansions.

www.pcgamer.com

"We are a company of big ideas. We are not a company that's made to create DLCs or expansions," Vincke said during his GDC address. "We tried that actually, a few times. It failed every single time. It's not our thing. Life is too short. Our ambitions are very large."

Seems silly since they could have created a smaller team to make dlc or expansions while funding their new project.

 

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is getting new endings, including one inspired by Berserk - KitGuru

Larian impressed us all with how content-rich Baldur's Gate 3 was at launch. Since then, a series of

www.kitguru.net

Patch 7 for Baldur's Gate 3 will include the new ending scenes, with particular attention paid to the Dark Urge origin ending. Other character classes will benefit from new scenes too, particularly if you followed the dark path and didn't help out the world too much. One of the endings will please Manga fans, as it seems to directly reference the eclipse from Berserk, a pivotal and iconic moment in a much beloved series. This wouldn't be a new concept, as several other notable games also reference Berserk, from Dark Souls to Dragon's Dogma.

 

[Cyan]

This 8-bit demake of Baldur's Gate 3 was made for a 40-year-old laptop, and it's a massive shot of pure 1980s gaming nostalgia

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/ga...-massive-shot-of-pure-1980s-gaming-nostalgia/

 

[Cyan]

'We can't stay here': Larian CEO opens up about relocating Russian developers otherwise, 'all of my team was going to go to war'

'We can't stay here': Larian CEO opens up about relocating Russian developers otherwise, 'all of my team was going to go to war'

"I had already thought about what we were going to do."

www.pcgamer.com

 

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September 2, 2024

Baldur’s Gate 3 gets official mod support on PC next week - KitGuru

Larian has been hard at work on the long-awaited Seventh major patch for Baldur's Gate 3 for months.

www.kitguru.net

The biggest part of this update is the introduction of official mod support, as well as a modstore within the game, similar to the Creation Store in Bethesda titles like Fallout 4 and Starfield. However, PC gamers will also be able to download mods not available on the official platform via websites like Nexus Mods. Mods on Larian's platform will be subject to some restrictions, as these mods will also need to work on Xbox and PS5 – which will be getting Path 7 at a later date.

Patch 7 will also include split-screen updates, new combat improvements, new endings for evil playthroughs – including one heavily inspired by Berserk, as well as various other bug fixes and improvements.

 

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Baldur's Gate 3

An ancient evil has returned to Baldur's Gate, intent on devouring it from the inside out. The fate of Faerûn lies in your hands. Alone, you may resist. But together, you can overcome. Gather your party.

baldursgate3.game

Detail on game changes and new features like Mod Manager and Toolkit:

In-Game Mod Manager​

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