News Baldur's Gate III (Larian) - coming to Earrly Access in October 2020

[prudis]

Baldur's Gate III
Developed by the creators of Divinity: Original Sin 2, Baldur's Gate III is the official next adventure in the venerable Baldur's Gate series. The teaser trailer shows a return of a malevolent presence to Baldur's Gate, intent on devouring it from the inside out, corrupting everything that remains in the Forgotten Realms. The fate of the Forgotten Realms lies in your hands.

Baldur's Gate 3

Gather your party, and return to the Forgotten Realms in a tale of fellowship and b

www.gog.com

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pre-announcment leaks

III - http://larian.com/

 

[Le Pertti]

I've said hell yeah so many times today and if the awesome news keep coming I will keep saying it!

 

[Gevin]

The GOAT returns

 

[Dandy]

Amazing! I've wanted larian to have the D&D license ever since they streamed that DM'd module before DOS2 came out.

Hopefully it's turn based or at least has that option... And I want it to be a new game with a new protagonist. Sure, connect it to the original, but it needs to be accessible to new players.

 

[Derrick01]

Bloodlines 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 in the same year. I just...wtf is happening?

 

[Stevey]

Oh wow

 

[lashman]

Bloodlines 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 in the same year. I just...wtf is happening?

the year of dreams

 

[Phoenix RISING]

I was about to take a dump on this, but Larian does Divinity: Original Sin?

Yeah, they're probably the only company right now that could do Baldur's Gate III justice outside of CDPR, who is knee-deep in Cyberpunk.

 

[lashman]

they're probably the only company right now that could do Baldur's Gate III justice

pretty much, yeah

 

[prudis]

 

[m_dorian]

This is big for me. I like the Forgotten Realms world and I will happily return.
Being a Larian game doubles the pleasure.
Great, great news!

 

[Le Pertti]

This is big for me. I like the Forgotten Realms world and I will happily return.
Being a Larian game doubles the pleasure.
Great, great news!

Yeah exactly how I feel! This might be my most wanted game if is true. Could only be topped if they then later made Neverwinter Nights 3 too.

 

[Anoregon]

It's all a ruse. Don't believe metadata. Don't believe Fargo. Don't believe your hearts.

 

[Arulan]

This is pretty incredible. I trust Larian Studios to do this well.

 

[Hektor]

Larian Studios teasing something new on their site, logo metadata contains reference to Baldurs Gate 3 [see threadmark]

jschreier
Press Sneak Fuck
In case there was any doubt, a lot of people are privately confirming to me secondhand/obliquely that this is for real."

 

[Taborcarn]

I am excite.

 

[Stevey]

E3 is going to be insane this year.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

I promised I would buy whatever games Larian would make, so this gives me a good reason to play the Baldur's Gate games.

 

[Xagarath]

Wait, what? How does that even work from a plot point of view?

(I'm potentially interested, but even DOS2 couldnl;t match BG2, so they've set themswevles a very difficult task here)

 

[Taborcarn]

A lot has changed in the Forgotten Realms in the past 20 years... including a second Sundering event where gods died.

Doesn't necessarily have to be the same MC, just the same setting.

 

[lashman]

i don't think we even need any more confirmation

(especially since he deleted the tweet right after posting it )

 

[texhnolyze]

Oh wow, totally unexpected.

Knowing that it's Larian, I guess controller support (and console ports) are also possible?

 

[lashman]

Oh wow, totally unexpected.

yes, tooooooootally

Knowing that it's Larian, I guess controller support (and console ports) are also possible?

i'd say it's a given at this point

 

[prudis]

human stretchgoal strikes bakc

 

[Kvik]

And thus the RtwP vs. Turn-based eternal debate will spark once again.

 

[texhnolyze]

And thus the RtwP vs. Turn-based eternal debate will spark once again.

 

[PossiblyPudding]

It's not allowed!

But yeah, It would be the best path to take and I hope they do somehow include both.

 

[Kvik]

Because there's only room for one in Baldur's Gate, and that is RtwP.

 

[Dandy]

This is big for me. I like the Forgotten Realms world and I will happily return.
Being a Larian game doubles the pleasure.
Great, great news!

I know nothing about the current Forgotten Realms, but I loved it back in the 90s when I was a kid. I used to play PnP and read all of the terrible novels and played the goldbox games. From what I've heard, it's very different now but I'm sure I'd recognize places and gods and such. Good memories

 

[Firewithin]

 

[sprinkles]

I have to take a few weeks of vacation when that launches!

 

[Arulan]

I've taken part in three lengthy conversations defending the merits of RTwP combat today, and I generally prefer (good) TB.. What am I doing?

 

[Dandy]

When Larian demoed their DM mode at WoTC, all I could think about was how badly I want them to make a NWN-style game(ie: a game where you can make your own modules/campaigns for D&D). I really hope this is a step in that direction.

 

[Le Pertti]

When Larian demoed their DM mode at WoTC, all I could think about was how badly I want them to make a NWN-style game(ie: a game where you can make your own modules/campaigns for D&D). I really hope this is a step in that direction.

Yeah! I miss NWN so much that I've been thinking about playing around with the toolkit in the new version. But having a new game with a toolkit again would be so sweet!

 

[Durante]

I've taken part in three lengthy conversations defending the merits of RTwP combat today, and I generally prefer (good) TB.. What am I doing?

You're starting to realize the truth,
Accept it. Join us. Resistance is futile.

 

[ISee]

The perfect Devs for the job.
How's their stance on EGS?
I really need to know before I can start celebrating.

 

[Anoregon]

I have very little optimism that this would end up RTwP, so I'm just hoping the underlying game systems are as appealing to me as possible. I get why everyone loves the turn-based combat of D:OS2, but I found myself much less invested/engaged with the minutiae of character builds/specs than I was in the original Infinity Engine games and the Pillars games. The faster pace of RTwP really lends itself to the sort of immediate layering of spells and abilities, especially for multi-class builds, that take multiple turns to set up in TB games and thus lose a lot of their appeal and impact. I'm definitely interested in seeing how their version of 5e rules ends up playing out.

 

[Phoenix RISING]

RTwP is turn-based.

Every eight seconds is a "turn" in Baldur's Gate, even though the action looks real-time.

They must have gone full-FFT style for Divinity 2. .

 

[lashman]

 

[Phoenix RISING]

Would be funny if it were Divinity 3, LOL

 

[lashman]

Would be funny if it were Divinity 3, LOL

at this point - i'd be VERY surprised if it was

 

[Anoregon]

Well those could be voidspawn tentacles!

 

[Taborcarn]

Mind Flayers have tentacles, and BG2 had more than it's share of those.

 

[Arulan]

You're starting to realize the truth,
Accept it. Join us. Resistance is futile.

Let's not go that far. I just think RTwP gets a lot of undeserved hate. Most of the complaints I read involve issues with the controls, micro-management, and viewing pausing itself as a problem. These aren't anymore a (design) problem than they are in an RTS. There are however differences in goals, potential character actions, and encounter variables, which is why you can pause.

 

[the_marmolade]

This going be an awesome Stadia game!!!

 

[Alextended]

I wouldn't mind if this was turn based like proper D&D like Temple of Elemental Evil. As long as it doesn't slow the pacing too much (I like turn based but find it a problem in games like Wizardry 8 where you can have 8 characters of your own and multiple enemy parties of equal or larger size all around you engaged in combat and even distant parties that have yet to spot you performing their regular move turns on top, I wish there was a mod for that game to somehow overhaul the balancing with smaller parties). But Larian have proved themselves so I doubt they'd make that mistake with the game.

But I do love RTWP so hopefully they would do RTWP as good as they did turn based and elevate it to new heights rather than make a flawed gem of it.

 

[JackPineSavage]

Larian might be the only dev i'd trust baldurs gate 3 to

 

[Rosenkrantz]

Between Bioware and Larian the choice is rather obvious.

Spoiler

We trust our Canadian overlords! Right?

 

[Alexandros]

Modern Bioware attempting to make a cRPG would be absolutely hilarious.

 

[Le Pertti]

Modern Bioware attempting to make a cRPG would be absolutely hilarious.

I would love to see them try! As much as I liked DA inquisition it would be quite awesome if DA3 went back to its roots.

Speaking or Larian and BG3, one issues with DOS games is that the cities are quite small, not sure if it's an engine issue and with BG I would hope there are big cities to explore.