You might need heard: whereas Larian is not finished with updating Baldur’s Gate 3, the studio’s subsequent recreation will not be Baldur’s Gate 4 or something to do with D&D.
However whereas studio founder and head Swen Vincke talked about the workforce was engaged on “a brand new factor” in his enjoyably open discuss at GDC, it wasn’t precisely clear what “new” meant. Chatting with Eurogamer on the occasion nevertheless, Vincke elaborated just a bit additional. The following factor will probably be “New within the sense that it’s completely different from the issues that we have finished earlier than.”
It will likely be “Nonetheless acquainted sufficient, however completely different,” he mentioned, whereas the “tone, type, method of doing it, are for us actually new – and I feel very interesting. I might love to speak about it already – as a result of I am very enthusiastic about it – however I am unable to say extra. But it surely’s new in that sense.”
Vincke additionally clarified what seems to be a slight misunderstanding in regards to the recreation’s general measurement, nevertheless that is perhaps outlined. In the course of the week Vincke has been quoted as saying the following recreation the studio is engaged on would “dwarf” it. That does not fairly match as much as what he supposed.
“Did I say that, actually, like that? I feel that I have been misquoted on this,” he mentioned. “I noticed that cross by and I mentioned, ‘I must verify what I truly mentioned’, both as a result of I used to be closely jetlagged so both I mentioned it wrongly, or…
“So it isn’t a really large RPG that can dwarf all of them, that we’re making now – I imply like, now we have a pair, now we have two video games that we wish to make – and [that] we truly supposed on after making BG3, so we’re simply again on that monitor now. They’re large and impressive, that is for certain. However I imply, I feel scope-wise, BG3’s most likely already ok!”
Vincke was additionally one in every of a number of builders to come back out with strongly-worded statements on the trade’s ongoing battle with layoffs, with the Larion boss citing writer “greed” as a trigger. Vincke additionally elaborated on this with Eurogamer throughout our dialog at GDC – count on far more from that chat very quickly.