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therealjcdenton, do gaming w Larian Studios Is Officially Done With The Baldur’s Gate Series

Too bad BG3 was boring, excited to see what they’ll do next

supernicepojo,

Unpopularopinion posting…. what do you normally like to play? I didnt enjoy BG3 either but I didnt care for the other Baldurs Gate games mostly because of the setting and characters.

Spacehooks,

It got better once I got plenty of mods. Broken bugs annoyed me like the painters house causing a million rolls or The invisible wall stopping me from crossing the bridge. Maybe I was super unlucky but it ruined the game for me.

therealjcdenton,

I like Deus Ex, in that game things are shown to you without some guy narrating your game telling you what is happening. And Deus Ex was released in the year 2000

supernicepojo,

I get the BG3 usage of narration due to the DnD setting and DMs narrating the story. Spoon feeding is not acceptable and is insulting to the player. I remember Deus Ex very well along with others like System Shock. The world they put you in can be confusing and unfamiliar at first glance and takes time to get involved in.

ActionHank,

As a long time CRPG fan, I was not into it at all. But expressing that you didn’t enjoy it is wrongthink, and the rabid fans will downvote you to oblivion.

therealjcdenton,

I speak the truth

SSJ2Marx, do gaming w Larian Studios Is Officially Done With The Baldur’s Gate Series
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I love it when good studios do new things

UndercoverUlrikHD, do gaming w Larian Studios Is Officially Done With The Baldur’s Gate Series
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They’ll probably work on another divinity game, but I’d love them trying out a game based on pathfinder.

tissek,

I think Pathfinder is as bad of a match for Larian as DnD mechanically speaking. Compare the sheer battlefield joy and chaos of DoS to the austere strictness in BG3. And Pathfinder is in the same vein. Better I think it would be if Larian picks up a setting fitting their humour and shenanigans. Heard good things about Discworld.

chonglibloodsport,

Discworld is amazing but not really a great setting for RPGs. The world is just too zany and hodge-podge. Everything I know about fantasy RPG fans tells me that they demand a “serious, rules-based” world.

There was a Discworld point and click adventure game though. The classic roguelike NetHack also has a ton of references to Discworld and a lot of humour and weirdness in general, though that also happens to be one of the things it gets criticized for the most. A Discworld RPG (which is at all faithful to the setting) would basically be NetHack on steroids.

Fedizen,

I would actually love it if they picked up a newer fantasy universe like Mistborn

RandomLegend,
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Mistborn isnt their style. Its way too dark and grim

PolandIsAStateOfMind,
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Stormlight Archive would be perfect. Btw, both Mistborn and SA settings are part of the same multiverse, and Mistborn even had a less dark 3-book countinuation placed few hundred years later in largely renewed world during the industrial revolution.

RandomLegend,
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Yeah i started the new trilogy but didn’t like it

PolandIsAStateOfMind,
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I liked it better than the first one. Imo Mistborn trilogy is second worst Sanderson work after Skyward, and i really like all his books except those two cycles.

RandomLegend,
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i really enjoyed the first mistborn trilogy :-)

UndercoverUlrikHD,
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I guess people just have different preferences. To me, the chaos of DoS turned rather monotone. You could get rich by betting that every combat encounter would end with half the map on fire. It was a real issue that Larian fixed in bg3 thankfully.

And have you payed pathfinder wrath of the righteous? In my opinion, the combat experience is better than DoS 2 and bg3. I will say that I enjoyed the freedom of movement in DoS 2 though, it made positioning a core part of the combat.

eRac,

Yeah, I got most of the way through DoS2 and gave up. Every fight was a giant mess of surfaces. Reducing that makes BG3 far more enjoyable.

tissek,

Played a good bit of Kingmaker and while not as refined as WotR I think is very similar. I agree with you that the DoS chaos can be a bit monotone and is too much. But I’d take that over the environmental flatness of other cRPGs.

UndercoverUlrikHD,
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Environmental flatness isn’t really tied to the game mechanics/rules though. Larian are just using a better engine with a larger budget than their competitors

kurcatovium,

Discworld might be absolutely genius if done well. And of all the dev studios I believe Larian would be the best pick. Maybe throw in some co-op with Obsidian and I’m sold!

troyunrau, do gaming w Larian Studios Is Officially Done With The Baldur’s Gate Series
@troyunrau@lemmy.ca avatar

I bet this is a falling out with Hasbro execs on royalties. BG3 royalties were a cash cow this year for Hasbro, pushing Wizards (as a division) to be quite profitable, while almost all other divisions in their company lost money.

So now the agreement is over, and Larian is like: we will own the IP on our next project instead of paying $90M to Hasbro… And fair enough – they’ve shown they can kick ass. Hasbro is probably gambling that it’s the IP that made the money, and not Larian being magic in a bottle as a developer. So they’ll kick tires on selling BG4 to another studio.

BG3 will go down in history as the legendary game before enshittification. Larian will make a few great games that don’t sell as well – before selling out to a whale that dumps money on the owner’s front lawn (see also BioWare). The devs who made BG3 will found indie studios and make cool shit for a decade or two. So the wheel turns.

MeDuViNoX,
@MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works avatar

Such is life, but I am saddened by this news.

PowerCrazy,

Larian already made DoS2 (which is better imo then bg3). In any case I look forward to the next Larian project.

VaultBoyNewVegas,

Same. It bugs me that people think larian only existed when making BG3. When DoS2 released on steam that game hit overwhelmingly positive in no time and I bought it day one with no idea what it was because the reviews were so good. Larian will be fine because they stick to what they’re great at and they’ve been around a long time.

MrScottyTay,

I feel like this was part of their plan though. Get the limelight with dnd and show the kind of games that they make to people that wouldn’t have known beforehand. Now their next fully owned game is going to make them absolute bank in both money and good faith I think.

CitizenKong,

I really hope they’re going sci-fi. I can only replay the Mass Effect trilogy so many times.

troyunrau,
@troyunrau@lemmy.ca avatar

Keep going, I’m almost there

Kbin_space_program,

This. If you like the mechanics of bg3, go play Divinity Original Sin 2. It has a lot of the same enhancements that Larian added to dnd for BG3. Including more comprehensive elemental fields and height mechanics.

And it has a great modding community.

The sad part about Larian and BG3 is I was hoping for a definitive edition that gave Karlach her good ending.

Amir,
@Amir@lemmy.ml avatar

Going with her to the nine hells is her “good” ending.

Letting her explode is her bad ending.

Kbin_space_program,

Nah, that's her kinda bad ending. They cut the good good ending.
There is another ending for her involving the upper city(cut at the last minute due to performance issues) and I suspect the purified metal you get at the factory that involves her staying.

swab148,
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They did say something about releasing more endings (and also mod support) so here’s hoping! 🤞

Kbin_space_program,

I don't think we're going to get the dos2 level of tools, simply because it would become a competitor to wotc's fabulous virtual tabletop microtransaction simulator.

It's nice to hope though, with you on that.

Sigh_Bafanada,

I turned her into a mind flayer. She seemed fairly happy.

rwhitisissle,

DOS2’s fatal flaw for me is that you really can’t have an optimal mixed-damage party because you have spell shield and armor, which each block one of two kinds of damage. If you go all physical, you can just blast through armor and then kill people that way. All magical and you can do the same thing for people with shield. Mixed damage parties just kinda suck by comparison because you’re effectively splitting your damage output.

PowerCrazy,

It’s true, you should go either full magic, or full physical within a specific character, however a 2magic/2physical party is great as well since almost all the combat encounters will have a mix of heavy physical armor guys and heavy magic armor guys.

But really once you learn how the action economy works, as long as you don’t gimp your characters by putting dex on a mage or whatever, you can blow up most encounters regardless of the magic/physical make up of the party.

And of course you can also go lone-wolf archer and single handedly win all encounters on your own ;)

Jakeroxs,

If possible, play with mods, there are a few good ones that modify how the armor/magic armor system works in different ways.

shapesandstuff,

Can I hug my big muscly girlfriend in that one though?

RexWrexWrecks,

You can hug a very thin, very tall, cannibalistic girlfriend though.

shapesandstuff,

Sounds close enough

Nacktmull,
@Nacktmull@lemmy.world avatar

Sebille ftw!

kurcatovium,

If that’s what makes reagular game a great game, there are not many great games…

shapesandstuff,

Such is life. Grim and unfair

Aurenkin,

Can’t wait for the EA live service BG4

Pooptimist,

I hope paizo will jump in and Larian will make a pathfinder game next (it’s the better system anyway)

isthingoneventhis,

This would be very feels good the whole way round.

Nacktmull,
@Nacktmull@lemmy.world avatar

Hasbro is probably gambling that it’s the IP that made the money

Laughs in Divinity: Original Sin 2

0x1C3B00DA,
@0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social avatar

Hasbro is probably gambling that it’s the IP that made the money, and not Larian being magic in a bottle as a developer

This is probably true, but how can executives be so stupid? Every review I read praised Larian specifically and how the made a huge game with no microtransactions and tons of little loving touches. You have to be willfully ignorant to think it was the IP and not the developer and their work that people were responding to.

AngryCommieKender,

You have to be willfully ignorant

At this point I’m convinced that MBA classes are really just training willful ignorance, in favor of “line go up” strategies.

Ragnarok314159,

That is all they teach.

Jack Welch is seen as MBA-Jesus and they all strive for similar stockholder returns as to what happened under him with GE. If you want a good read, GE under Welch is the OG enshitification story. He took a juggernaut of a company and completely destroyed it for short term shareholder gain.

Now it’s just a shell of its former self, but those guys at the top sure made alot of money.

AngryCommieKender, (edited )

Screw Hitler. If I invent a time machine, Jack Welch will get a tommy gun to the back of the head before he can lay off one worker, or gut a single workers protection.

Edit: autocorrect got me

Ferk,
@Ferk@lemmy.ml avatar

The thing is that being “willfully ignorant” has served them well, so it makes it the smart move when the goal is “line go up”.

Give me money and call me stupid, why would I care what a few “smart” people think when millions of “stupid” people give me all I want?

Joker,

I think it’s probably more a situation where they are not a good fit for each other anymore. The D&D license has value and Hasbro rightly wants to capitalize on that. Larian is a hot commodity right now and they don’t need to borrow the credibility that comes with a big license like D&D. There’s also a timing issue. BG4 is unnecessary when BG3 will continue to sell for years to come. Larian will put out at least a couple more games before BG4 makes sense.

Larian is in a position where they can make whatever game they want and it will sell like hotcakes. Why the hell would they want to pay enormous royalties again when they can bring the writing in house? Sure, Hasbro could reduce their fee, but they can’t reduce it to the point where it’s worthwhile for both them and Larian.

If I’m running Larian, there’s no way I’m making another D&D game. The lore is great, but the rule set sucks. There are better systems in the tabletop space and there’s no reason to even be limited to that after you’ve already made the decision to not make D&D. Wizards isn’t exactly a paragon of reliability and stability either so there’s risk there. Not to mention, it was Larian who helped pull Hasbro’s asses out of the fire. They were facing massive backlash from their core customers until a kick ass movie and BG3 made everyone forget about it.

In short, Larian is riding high and Hasbro is not. There’s a lot more money for Larian doing something else and probably good money for Hasbro licensing to another developer.

Ferk,
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I think it’s more that executives think the average consumer is stupid and cares too much about IP branding. And I feel they are not completelly wrong. Though I think the OGL fiasco showed the D&D fanbase might be smarter than that …hopefully.

sexual_tomato,

Basically Blizzard’s story.

Ragnarok314159,

How can we take our beloved cash cows and completely destroy them…

catsarebadpeople,
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Don’t think most people read the last part. Pretty good take until then

Transtronaut,

Agreed, it was pretty good until then. But the last paragraph is what made it a great take.

catsarebadpeople,
@catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works avatar

Laughs in Divinity Original Sin 2

Transtronaut,

It’s like poetry; it rhymes.

PieMePlenty, do games w Overwatch 2 story missions future uncertain after January layoffs (according to ex-devs)

They took away access to a game we payed for and replaced it with an inferior product with the hopes and dreams to one day have single player content… which you would have to pay for anyway. Thats all i have to say on the matter of overwatch. Fuck blizzard.

JoshuaJimenez, do gry w Microsoft Wins Court Battle With FTC Over Activision Blizzard Acquisition

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helenslunch, do gaming w Sony Reportedly Halts PSVR2 Production As Headsets Fail To Sell
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Sony published a whopping 2 games for this headset. It should be absolutely no surprise to anyone that it’s failing.

kembik, do games w Overwatch 2 story missions future uncertain after January layoffs (according to ex-devs)

Unpopular opinion but I think the game is in it’s best state currently. I spent $40 on 2016 and haven’t had to pay a dime since and I’m not playing this PVP game for it’s PVE so this stuff doesn’t matter to me. Blizzard is a husk of its former self and I’m still bitter about HOTS but am actually having a lot of fun playing comp this season.

Jumi,

It needs a bit of tweaking but generally I agree with you.

zipzoopaboop, do games w Overwatch 2 story missions future uncertain after January layoffs (according to ex-devs)

Blizzard is dead. Don’t expect them to do anything good

_haha_oh_wow_, do gaming w Sony Reportedly Halts PSVR2 Production As Headsets Fail To Sell
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Should’ve embraced PC from the get-go.

FlihpFlorp, do games w Overwatch 2 story missions future uncertain after January layoffs (according to ex-devs)

Wait I thought overwatch 2 a story mode and that was its entire point. Tbf I haven’t been keeping up with the game

BleatingZombie,

You’re right. And neither has Blizzard

FlihpFlorp,

Oh Oh

MentalEdge, do games w Overwatch 2 story missions future uncertain after January layoffs (according to ex-devs)
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Activision is burning the rope that is the ancient goodwill of Blizzard-fans at both ends.

Bdtrngl,

Surprised there’s any rope left for them to burn.

MentalEdge,
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It’s a long rope. Woven from decades of WoW, StarCraft and Diablo.

It’ll run out soon. Mostly it’s only been burning so slow cuz people have been in denial over the fact for so long.

Donjuanme,

Burned all of my rope with the battle.net “2.0” complete with Facebook integration, rmah, “get the game for free with a years subscription to world of Warcraft” and killing deckard Cain in act 2 of D3 (along with ACT 1 being the only ACT with any love put into it, and that being the entirety of the demo, also pretty clear that’s when Activision bought blizzard)

Never played any of the sc2 expansions, never watched another blizzard tournament, never bought a wow expansion (after TBC), I lost a lot of really great memory associations, but the nostalgia isn’t worth supporting the corpse-puppet of blizzard.

KingThrillgore, do games w Balatro Hits One Million Copies Sold In Less Than A Month, Mobile Port Incoming
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A mobile port? Well RIP my productivity.

GreenAlex, do games w Balatro Hits One Million Copies Sold In Less Than A Month, Mobile Port Incoming
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It's a lot of fun. Got me to get a stylus to use for card games on my Steam Deck.

Boss blinds that hard counter you late in the game feel pretty dang bad, but that's my only big complaint thus far.

frontporchtreat, (edited )

I initially hated this but it does incentivize deck versatility. I stopped putting my eggs in one basket and I stopped losing so much.

Neato, do games w Overwatch 2 story missions future uncertain after January layoffs (according to ex-devs)
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It was never going to happen. It was a scam to get into a new monetization scheme.

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