Baldur's Gate III - Spoiler Edition (please read updated OP)

I hate to be that guy, but im getting some Tides of Numemera vibes off this...

Thats not a good thing. Honestly...it should not be called Baldurs Gate 3.

Illithids are the creepiest creepazoids to ever creep. Hate them and their sick mind games. I wonder if PC can be a githyanki or githzerai? They are immune to that shit aren't they, after breaking free from the creeps in ages past?

 
I agree, I thought "Other Games" was a good fit for this since its only connection to BioWare was the name Baldur's Gate which they don't even own.

Yeah, this thread should be moved back

A game announcement with a Blur trailer that are reserved to AAA games marketing because they cost millions and a dev team of 300 gives you the turn-based crowd funded vibe?

That is why I said I thought it was just me looking for it. Larian Studios has only made the Divinity Sins games and that video only made me think they are just a kept studio by Google for its exclusivity.  

As far as the other things that is just more marketing, having Google money pay for a Blur video and 300 people working on the game doesn't mean they won't fumble areas of the game like other studios with the games they have released.

My problem is Tides pretended to be thought provoking and deep like Planescape, and taking that on as a sort of mantle of the quality of that writing it really missed the mark. There was a ton of stories in Tides, but there was no pathos to it.

I didn't really like Original Sin (played like an updated version of Beyond Divinity) I did like Original Sin 2 though. I am sure Larian will make a good game out of this. My problem is the same issue as Tides and Torment connection; your basically going to create a sequel, even if it is set 100 years later, to a story that's already finished, and attempt to emulate that legacy.

Honestly, I kind of would respect the idea of Baldur's Gate 3 more if they called it Baldur's Gate: Title X or something like that to set it on it's own timeline (a-la Andromeda for lack of a better comparison.) Even with the promise of a connection to Bhaal, who hasn't been relevant in Forgotten Realms lore until recently apparently, it seems a bit...odd to me that they would go for it like this. 

Instead, it's going to be judged by the standards of the original narrative and mechanics completely. 

Problem is, if you are the 1% that is immune to Illithids, the mind controlled 99% will wreck yo ass. It might be healthier to be an Illithid thrall after all. 

I don't know, this is the problem I kind of have. If they are basing it as a second part to Descent Into Avernus, why not just make it based off of Avernus and name it Baldur's Gate: Avernus or something?

The 3 throws it off for me I guess, and I know I shouldn't be thrown off by that because i'm perfectly fine with anthology-style games. SSI Goldbox titles did that with the old RPGS...but few of them were actually numbered back to back so...

I don't know, maybe i'm just being an old grognard. 

Gamespot video interview:



Going by that video, BGI3 is going to be more nerdy than BG1/BG2 were.

That video also confirms they are doing something similar to Original Sin 2 origins but Sven call them "heroic roles" for BG3 which sound more generic to me.

You are right that Avernus is the first of the Nine Hells

Bhaal has been resurrected already, though (in the module "Murder in Baldur's Gate")

From what I've heard, Descent into Avernus has something to do with the Blood War.  I have no idea what the illithids would have to do with that though.