As a result, Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian will not be producing any content for the game, Baldur’s Gate 4, or any DLC related to Dungeons and Dragons in the near future. It’s okay, don’t cry. It turns out that CEO Swen Vincke once agreed with some of these ideas, but now his goal is to create “a very big RPG that can dominate them all,” well, once the technology it requires matures and it actually becomes one thing.
Yes, the thing you’re drooling over isn’t going to be a thing, but that’s okay, there’s a new thing looming on the horizon to make your mouth water, and it deserves credit. To be fair, Larian’s just got some more hardware at the GDC Awards, so it had a chance to pursue its fun daydreams and arcane ideas, although that didn’t always seem to be the plan.
Manage cookie settings
In an interview with GameSpot, Vincke detailed yesterday’s big announcement and how Larian was confident that he wouldn’t be making DLC for and following up on a certain type of hugely successful studio. “When it came to BG3, everyone told me ‘You’ve got to make DLC,’ you’ve got to make DLC, and you really should start making a sequel,” Vincke recalled, adding that, as you’d expect, this It’s due to the game’s success and money-making ability.
“So, there was a period where I was actually saying ‘yeah, yeah, this is what we should do, we should change our plans, we should do this’ and the team said ‘yeah, we should do this’.” , he continued. According to an interview with IGN, actual work has begun on the DLC for Baldur’s Gate 3. Because, I mean, that’s the opposite of Larian’s philosophy, we want to do something new and big, we don’t want to repeat what we’ve already done. “
So after canceling the DLC, the studio is back to work on a new title, which Vincke says will be followed by what he calls “a really big RPG that’s going to rule them all.” game”. Just as coy as he seemed to be when teasing Larian’s next upcoming game earlier this year, what he really said about the massive role-playing game is that it needs some technological advancements.
“I think there’s some technology that we don’t have yet, and I hope, I don’t know what the next specs are going to be. [generation of hardware]I hope we get something that brings us closer [to that]” He said.
Oh, Sven, you mysterious man. I can almost forgive you for completely abandoning voting etiquette that day. But I won’t. not yet.
If you’re planning on replaying Baldur’s Gate 3 but are crying because you didn’t get any DLC, first of all it’s going to be extremely frustrating, and secondly you should check out what Vincke had to say about the original plans for the game’s narrator, which Including Matt Mercer.