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    Baldur's Gate So... Which Studio Should Replace Larian As The Developer of Baldur's Gate 4?

    Reason why they can't grow is because their production values are extremely underwhelming compared to Larian's and especially Baldur's Gate 3. If you rebuilt Wrath of the Righteous in the style of Baldur's Gate 3 you would see a huge spike in sales. Absence of multiplayer is also probably a...
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    Baldur's Gate So... Which Studio Should Replace Larian As The Developer of Baldur's Gate 4?

    Obsidian - struggles to manage projects at any scale unless Sawyer is in charge. Bioware - a dead meme inXile - they seem to be a broadly more competent version of what Obsidian has become. They also seem to be the most willing to imitate Larian and have an edge in production values over...
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    WTF was Viconia Evil in BG3

    The end result of that is that you get an endless escalatory cycle of pointless references to decisions from prior games, as Bioware proved with the Dragon Age franchise. Superficial, distracting, and artificial feeling. The most parsimonious approach is just to assume the Player Character did...
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    WTF was Viconia Evil in BG3

    I like Viconia and her redemption and it forms part of my preferred playthrough, but canon generally assumes minimalism. The most minimal evolution of Viconia's character is that she stays evil. Same reason why Drizzt is alive in Shadows of Amn even if you killed him in BG1. Canon narratives...
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    Baldur's Gate So... Which Studio Should Replace Larian As The Developer of Baldur's Gate 4?

    Eh. Owlcat can probably improve on its engine and assets deficiencies given adequate time and resources and it's something they have a robust interest in improving on anyway. The key thing here is that their games incorporate a heightened degree of reactivity in a long, complex narrative, and...
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    Warhammer Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader - turn-based Warhammer 40k RPG from Owlcat Games

    Cassia with Navigator talents is ridiculous, though. In a way I respect it as a design choice. Navigators to be true to the setting pretty much would be as powerful as the rest of the retinue combined so it's pretty true to character that the amped up super Navigator would be better than...
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    So I started playing this game called deadfire

    > you're (probably) expected to quest for all the factions and play all the angles in order to benefit yourself and find out what is going on in the Deadfire. They can be interesting, but a moral/reasonable man wouldn't align with any of the factions except to the extent he's getting paid. You...
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    Owlcat's next game is an AAA title that will need full voice acting to compete with BG3

    It's a fair point, but any genre that can move 10 million+ units at full price can't really be ignored (or shouldn't be -- publishers can and have ignored anything for any reason), and if BG3 hasn't sold 20 million units yet, it eventually will.
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    Baldur's Gate Larian is moving away from D&D, no BG3 DLC or BG4

    Probably because nothing else works well. Even Mass Effect lifetime sales were pretty barely generously average. Even things that eventually seem to work (like Cyberpunk 2077) are awkward and problematic, the franchise was salvaged by a Netflix anime and almost two years of basically full-time...
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    Baldur's Gate Larian is moving away from D&D, no BG3 DLC or BG4

    Hasbro/WotC fucking up a good thing is one of the universal constants we can all depend on to know the cosmic balance is unfolding naturally.
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    What drove BG3's success, game mechanics or emotional engagement?

    Production values, co-op, and the D&D license.
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    Owlcat's next game is an AAA title that will need full voice acting to compete with BG3

    You can call Owlcat a lot of things, but AAA definitely isn't one of them.
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    Owlcat's next game is an AAA title that will need full voice acting to compete with BG3

    I assume that Owlcat post-AAA disaster would survive on crowdfunding life support, unless the power brokers in charge just decide to call it quits like the Troika heads did.
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    Owlcat's next game is an AAA title that will need full voice acting to compete with BG3

    It certainly (probably?) was in the past, but BG3's success may spur them to pivot to different mechanics.
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    Clockwork Revolution - inXile's steampunk time travel first-person action-RPG led by Chad Moore and Jason Anderson

    Some of those are doubtful. I have a hard time as seeing loop-driven plots like Groundhog Day or Donnie Darko (or and Edge of Tomorrow, as another example) as time travel stories since the protagonists aren't really going anywhere, but fair enough. I'm also not sure I accept the Christmas Carol...

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