I would have done the same. Hasbro is poison to anyone that works with them and they would fire everyone at Larian for a penny.
Even if everything went well with Hasbro, Larian is big enough now that they dont need to tempt fate twice.
So Larian’s next game is gonna be a Pathfinder title or…?
Doubt it, unless Owlcat has sold their soul to the James Workshop devil.
Maybe another Divinity, or something new; there’s lots of other decent RPG systems that haven’t been adapted yet.
Pathfinder 2e hasn’t been adapted yet, which is very different from 1e
They’ll probably work on another divinity game, but I’d love them trying out a game based on pathfinder.
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.
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!
I would actually love it if they picked up a newer fantasy universe like Mistborn
Mistborn isnt their style. Its way too dark and grim
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.
Yeah i started the new trilogy but didn’t like it
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.
i really enjoyed the first mistborn trilogy :-)
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Please do 40k please do 40k
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Unfathomably based
Hasbro is gonna sell to some heartless VC and D&D will be dead as we know it as they try to bleed every last dollar from whoever stays. Sad times ahead. Capitalism strikes again destroying everything we love.
Have you heard of D&D Beyond? It’s already a subscription service, I’m not sure D&D is in the best hands as it is.
Dnd beyond as it is now is still very usable without a subscription. But yeah, this will probably change with the next edition.
It is really annoying. Dnd beyond is such a great product, but it will very likely be ruined by the business model soon.
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I was really hoping for some standalone campaigns in the same engine though
Same, but Hasbro is shit. I don’t blame Larian for running.
If Larian did a collab with Paizo on a Starfinder series I could die happy.
That would be so amazing.
I like how they just came and dropped one of the best games of the year then immediate quit the series.
I understand the reasons why but when phrased that way it sounds pretty funny
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with quitting on a high note. Not everything needs to be milked until people are sick of it.
They made great games before, this just went viral
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bg3 isnt even their best game, dos2 is. BG3 just got mainstream hype. Its a great game but its a little over rated lol.
I mean, I loved DOS2 as well, but I definitely think BG3 is the better game. There’s a lot of replayability from the combat in DOS, but the story and characters in BG3 are on a whole different level. DOS2 does definitely rank in my top 5 CRPGs though (BG3, BG2, DOS2, DA:O, and probably NWN would be that full list)
I will enjoy playing their next game in 2030 from my prison cell
I love it when good studios do new things
Too bad BG3 was boring, excited to see what they’ll do next
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.
I speak the truth
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.
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
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.
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.
Imho the DnD settings kind of held the game back anyway, the combat in Divinity 2 was a lot more fun since they didnt have to constrain themselves to the super basic DnD item system.
Which editon is it based on? I’m assuming not 3.0 or 3.5 since you called the item system basic. I’m waiting for a good sale before I get BG3
It’s based on 5th edition
I dunno, I like BG3 a lot more than DOS2. I like actually being able to move and not feel like I wasted my turn doing so, and I feel like I get a lot less “fuck! I didn’t want to go there!” situations eating up all my actions in BG3. Having distinct action / bonus action resources, where the latter can be converted into extra movement, is a good system IMO. Now if only they allowed you to use your action as a bonus action if you wanted…
Arguably, they could just make movement a separate kind of action in DOS as well.
There is one skill in DOS2 that grants a free movement action every turn. I use it for my backstabbing rogue, and it rocks!
I hope they will make Divinity 3 next!
I would like to see a Games Workshop collaboration. GW sucks with their mini stuff, but their tabletop rules would make an excellent successor to BG3.
The time is ripe for an original property, but with a 8 be year development cycle who knows
