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

I'm voting for cinematics. BG1 intro was a 3D cinematics and it had a few short CGI movies when you visited certain major place for the first time.

Larian announcement trailer was a cinematics too.

Will buy and play but hoping it is not
isometric

Oh man I would love to see Larian take a swing at a third person rpg! And if that's actually the direction they go with this I will be beyond hyped. Mainly because ever since DnD started to pick back up I've been waiting for somebody to do something other then an isometric rpg with it.

Larian has made a 3rd person RPG already (Divinity 2: The Dragon Knight Saga). They were forced too by their publisher and it's the reasons they decided to go fully independent afterward.

I can see them doing is a game with a camera like in Dragon Age Origins, where you can play the game isometric/top-down with point-to-click but the also place it behind the party and use the keyboard to move. But I expect BGIII to support "isometric".

So we'll have our own brainslug?

Only announced for PC (and Stadia) so far, but Larian eventually released console ports for their last 2 games (the Divinity Original Sins ones) so I wouldn't count them out.

Now you get how the PC community feels with all those console exclusives.

I'm definitely not against that Inevitable doom aporoching is a great motivator!

Thank you

Looks beautiful so far. Larian definitely looks like the right company to do this

Grognards were always going to hate this game, regardless of what Larian did. You can’t outperform people’s nostalgia. What I like about Larian is that they make genuinely creative games rather than constantly attempt to relive their greatest hits a la Obsidian or inXile. Even if Baldur’s Gate 3: The Black Hound had panned out and Bioware or Black Isle kept developing the franchise to this day, 2020 Baldur’s Gate would look radically different, or at least it should.

It’s twenty years later, and a different developer. I’m just glad to see a Larian D&D game, no matter what it’s called. Isometric turn-based combat is the main thing I was hoping for (it would be a lackluster adaptation of tabletop otherwise, and multiplayer would be a pain). Everything else sounds good too.