Rumor: Baldur's Gate 4 to be developed by DA: Veilguard game director Corinne Busch at WOTC's Skeleton Key Studio

[Infinitron]

Original thread title was ragebait, this is just a rumor/theory by some anti-woke YouTuber.

I dunno about the youtuber I just connected the dots the moment I saw the news article.

I repeat my prediction for BG4 from last year:

I say it'll never happen. Hasbro are clowns and they'll fail to get another Baldur's Gate project off the ground.

 

[Grauken]

Original thread title was ragebait, this is just a rumor/theory by some anti-woke YouTuber.

I dunno about the youtuber I just connected the dots the moment I saw the news article.

I repeat my prediction for BG4 from last year:

I say it'll never happen. Hasbro are clowns and they'll fail to get another Baldur's Gate project off the ground.

Well, at least the series went out on a high note with the best cRPG in recent years

 

[Morgoth]

There's no developer affluent and big enough that could live up to a BG4. Not after the high bar that BG3 has set.

That doesn't mean there can't be a smaller BG project done though. Maybe isometric again.

 

[Swen]

I hope they do

 

[Sweeper]

Original thread title was ragebait, this is just a rumor/theory by some anti-woke YouTuber.

I dunno about the youtuber I just connected the dots the moment I saw the news article.

I repeat my prediction for BG4 from last year:

I say it'll never happen. Hasbro are clowns and they'll fail to get another Baldur's Gate project off the ground.

BG3 was a cash cow.
It's gonna happen and you're gonna shill for it Jew boy.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

After Hasbro releases a flop and Swen releases a flop, they may just crawl back to each other.

 

[Reinhardt]

So excited to force Viconia into doing barves because she called me a stupid surface dweller!

she?

 

[Infinitron]

BG3 was a cash cow.
It's gonna happen and you're gonna shill for it Jew boy.

They couldn't make it happen for 17 years until Larian showed up. The game studio ecosystem hasn't exactly become healthier since then.

After Hasbro releases a flop and Swen releases a flop, they may just crawl back to each other.

This may be the most likely scenario.

 

[Roguey]

Skeleton Key has existed since 2022 and has about 50 people, that's not enough for a BG4, unless they also have the rights to Larian's engine (do they?) and are making a kotor 2/New Vegas-style sequel.

 

[S.torch]

Is this really true? I'm just surprised someone that's burned probably half a billion dollars in projects with the last one being so out of touch from reality is headhunted for such a big IP.

Nepotism. All the big studios know each other at the top. There's 0 meritocracy involved and that's why all their productions are indistinguishable from one another.

 

[PrK]

... He liked the opportunity to work on BG3 because he likes BG, ...

No he doesn't, he likely likes it even less than Todd liked Fallout, but he obviously loves Diablo, and the money and fame that a lauded IP brings. Don't you remember his own "button = awesome" fuckery ("missing isn't fun"), and that the vast majority of the team hadn't even played the games and he did nothing to fix that. You don't rape something you like.

On the other hand a tranny game from a tranny studio led by a tranny is exactly what fans of Original Sin 3 deserve.

 

[Rhobar121]

I suspect the only one who will be happy with the game will be Swen after he counts the dollars from increased sales of BG3 or DOS3 after the "success" of BG4.

 

[processdaemon]

Original thread title was ragebait, this is just a rumor/theory by some anti-woke YouTuber.

I dunno about the youtuber I just connected the dots the moment I saw the news article.

I repeat my prediction for BG4 from last year:

I say it'll never happen. Hasbro are clowns and they'll fail to get another Baldur's Gate project off the ground.

If Hasbro are floundering that could be why Busch was hired as despite some clearly dreadful artistic instincts the game went from being in development hell in 2022 when Busch was appointed as Veilguard Game Director to coming out relatively bug free in 2024. Busch can clearly deliver efficiently and if Hasbro don't care about quality and only want to capitalise on Larian's success ASAP that might be appealing to them.

 

[scytheavatar]

Original thread title was ragebait, this is just a rumor/theory by some anti-woke YouTuber.

I dunno about the youtuber I just connected the dots the moment I saw the news article.

I repeat my prediction for BG4 from last year:

I say it'll never happen. Hasbro are clowns and they'll fail to get another Baldur's Gate project off the ground.

If Hasbro are floundering that could be why Busch was hired as despite some clearly dreadful artistic instincts the game went from being in development hell in 2022 when Busch was appointed as Veilguard Game Director to coming out relatively bug free in 2024. Busch can clearly deliver efficiently and if Hasbro don't care about quality and only want to capitalise on Larian's success ASAP that might be appealing to them.

Again, Skeleton Key has about 50 people in 2022, even if Busch is the Spielberg of game directors there is simply no way Skeleton Key could make a BG4 in a way to "capitalise on Larian's success ASAP". If they are really in charge of BG4 then it is clear Hasbro has taken a long term approach and are willing to take the time and money to develop their own studio. But even so it is hard to believe Hasbro would be dumb enough to roll such a big dice.

 

[Rhobar121]

Original thread title was ragebait, this is just a rumor/theory by some anti-woke YouTuber.

I dunno about the youtuber I just connected the dots the moment I saw the news article.

I repeat my prediction for BG4 from last year:

I say it'll never happen. Hasbro are clowns and they'll fail to get another Baldur's Gate project off the ground.

If Hasbro are floundering that could be why Busch was hired as despite some clearly dreadful artistic instincts the game went from being in development hell in 2022 when Busch was appointed as Veilguard Game Director to coming out relatively bug free in 2024. Busch can clearly deliver efficiently and if Hasbro don't care about quality and only want to capitalise on Larian's success ASAP that might be appealing to them.

Again, Skeleton Key has about 50 people in 2022, even if Busch is the Spielberg of game directors there is simply no way Skeleton Key could make a BG4 in a way to "capitalise on Larian's success ASAP". If they are really in charge of BG4 then it is clear Hasbro has taken a long term approach and are willing to take the time and money to develop their own studio. But even so it is hard to believe Hasbro would be dumb enough to roll such a big dice.

Many years ago I lost hope that people with brains work in management positions in the industry. If it were otherwise, failures like Veilguard or the latest works of Ubishit would not have happened.

 

[MerchantKing]

Original thread title was ragebait, this is just a rumor/theory by some anti-woke YouTuber.

I dunno about the youtuber I just connected the dots the moment I saw the news article.

I repeat my prediction for BG4 from last year:

I say it'll never happen. Hasbro are clowns and they'll fail to get another Baldur's Gate project off the ground.

BG3 was a cash cow.
It's gonna happen and you're gonna shill for it Jew boy.

Maybe we can get a "return to form" for Obsidian by having them make BG3-2 just like they used to for every other Bioware game and even Dungeon Siege. It can be a bug riddled mess pushed out of the studio in 18 months too!

 

[Semiurge]

Is this really true? I'm just surprised someone that's burned probably half a billion dollars in projects with the last one being so out of touch from reality is headhunted for such a big IP.

Nepotism. All the big studios know each other at the top. There's 0 meritocracy involved and that's why all their productions are indistinguishable from one another.

Nepotism plus being willing to only recruit from the same shallow pools of "comrades". They sympathise with Busche, no doubt. He's one of them.

 

[Fedora Master]

Almost as if game development is a big circlejerk with revolving door hiring.

 

[Tyranicon]

Well, at least the series went out on a high note with the best cRPG in recent years

I agree with this but I'm not happy about it.

It's more a reflection on how bad everything else is.

 

[Berengar]

Well, at least the series went out on a high note with the best cRPG in recent years

I agree with this but I'm not happy about it.

It's more a reflection on how bad everything else is.

Be the change with your vampire sex-rpg

 

[Thalstarion]

Aren't Elon and Trump cutting funding for all this propaganda shit on entertainment? They probably hired him to help plan secure it but now it's drying up he might no longer be useful.

To a degree. The funding will just be found elsewhere, likely outside of America.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

chiil up it might be just a baldur's gate dating game

Would purchase if it included a Chris Avellone origin:

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

Ah yes, we made hundreds of millions of dollars in profit with bg3, time to waste all of that chasing the same high in the most braindead way possible.

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

Original thread title was ragebait, this is just a rumor/theory by some anti-woke YouTuber.

I dunno about the youtuber I just connected the dots the moment I saw the news article.

I repeat my prediction for BG4 from last year:

I say it'll never happen. Hasbro are clowns and they'll fail to get another Baldur's Gate project off the ground.

I see the point, but if SKS was working on something small, which ok it's a relatively small studio, then hiring a person who worked on AAA games, failed sure, but AAA, is kind of suspicious.
My speculation is also encouraged by the fact that while there are obvious differences between BG3 and Veilguard, one element remains the same, they're RPG games with cutscene-like dialogues, so hiring a person who successfully lead a development of a game like that(good or bad it was completed and released) would hint at what they're planning.

It'll take years for them to make it, don't expect anything before 2030, but imo things align towards there being BG4 made by the developers from the company of the OG creators of the series. Codex should rejoice!

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

chiil up it might be just a baldur's gate dating game

How does that differ from main series?