Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 Pre-Release Thread [EARLY ACCESS RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Gyor]

From a business point of view, if even half of those 350 people work in-house, there has never been an isometric RPG with such a budget. So if they do that, they are certainly taking a risk.

The big budget "RPG's" are mostly third-person, though if they do something like a zoom-out to tactical perspective and turn-based combat - I guess that would be okay. And it's certainly something that no other big budget title has done so far.

From the video it still isometric game I think.

I'm curious how it will deal with gaming sets, we could have minigames in this.

 

[Harthwain]

Pretty fucking stupid if they won't get that BG1 and 2 are liked by the fanbase partially because of the itemization. One of the big reasons why I quit DOS 1 and never picked up the sequel is the retarded "MMO" loot, the itemization was even worse than Pillars of Eternity.

They could go the mixed route - have "common" items to be generated randomly, while having "set"/unique items to be hand-crafted and hand-placed (with the latter being far fewer than the former, of course).

 

[vortex]

I want to know what was Sawyer's pitch for BG3. The second one. But I guess we'll never know or maybe sometime much later.

 

[Infinitron]

I want to know what was Sawyer's pitch for BG3. The second one. But I guess we'll never know or maybe sometime much later.

Obsidian's Baldur's Gate 3 was not, to my knowledge, a Josh Sawyer game. I'm not sure anybody from Obsidian has ever talked about it other than Feargus.

 

[Neerasrc]

350 people are working and no leaks / image/ news. Only 6 days left. I don't understand this. Hey larian are you there?

 

[Lyric Suite]

We are all going to be massively disappointed, aren't we.

 

[Curratum]

We are all going to be massively disappointed, aren't we.

I have a positive outlook, but also low standards! :D

 

[LESS T_T]

350 people are working and no leaks / image/ news. Only 6 days left. I don't understand this. Hey larian are you there?

From the experience of digging here and there, I got the feeling that their employees and outsourcers were pretty well instructed about this matter.

 

[pomenitul]

We are all going to be massively disappointed, aren't we.

Not if you expect absolute dogshit, you aren't.

 

[Neerasrc]

350 people are working and no leaks / image/ news. Only 6 days left. I don't understand this. Hey larian are you there?

From the experience of digging here and there, I got the feeling that their employees and outsourcers were pretty well instructed about this matter.

James ohlen works at wotc. surprise name?

 

[Terenty]

The best games have always been made by ~ 30-50 people sharing an intimate atmosphere in a basement.

5 studios and hundreds of employees sounds more like Ubisoft and their annual turds

 

[frajaq]

D:OS 2 was amazing so I'm sure BG 3 will rock my socks off!

 

[Lyric Suite]

Amazing.

 

[ga♥]

We are all going to be massively disappointed, aren't we.

You can't be disappointed when you have no expectations.

 

[Lyric Suite]

We are all going to be massively disappointed, aren't we.

You can't be disappointed when you have no expectations.

The decline always seems to find a way.

 

[Lacrymas]

I expect the worst possible scenario but I know I'll still be disappointed somehow.

 

[Elex]

350 people are working and no leaks / image/ news. Only 6 days left. I don't understand this. Hey larian are you there?

Stadia already leaked the release year. Of course they will not release close to cyberpunk.

 

[Gyor]

From a business point of view, if even half of those 350 people work in-house, there has never been an isometric RPG with such a budget. So if they do that, they are certainly taking a risk.

The big budget "RPG's" are mostly third-person, though if they do something like a zoom-out to tactical perspective and turn-based combat - I guess that would be okay. And it's certainly something that no other big budget title has done so far.

From the video it still isometric game I think.

I'm curious how it will deal with gaming sets, we could have minigames in this.

In 5e gaming sets are a gaming tool proficiency, like dice, Dragon Chess, cards ect....

 

[Ontopoly]

Amazing.

If there's one thing every video game needs it's an old man reading a romance novel sex scene to you.

Full voice acting and sex scenes instead of fade to blacks were a mistake.

 

[Doktor Best]

I am severely lacking a "fabulously pessimistic" button for this thread.

 

[Alienman]

I'm really excited to see how many studios out of those 5 survives the release. Sure, it might become a great success, but keep 5 studios running like that?

 

[Infinitron]

The Larian satellite studios are all in places that are cheap and/or receive government subsidies. Russia, Quebec, Ireland, Malaysia. Increasingly common practice these days to branch out to cheaper locations like that. Even inXile has a second studio.

 

[hexer]

More tweets from 1UP conference:

Not this story again... we already heard it a dozen times FFS

The Larian satellite studios are all in places that are cheap and/or receive government subsidies. Russia, Quebec, Ireland, Malaysia. Increasingly common practice these days to branch out to cheaper locations like that. Even inXile has a second studio.

Hmm... you have to wonder about the quality from a cheap workforce ​

 

[hexer]

Infinitron prove me wrong, I didn't write anything racist.
Prove me that you can get a superb AAA product with a low investment

 

[Infinitron]

They're cheap compared to Western Europe. I mean I think we've seen that Russians can do a good job on RPGs.