Game news The next RPG after Baldur’s Gate 3 would not fit on our current consoles, but perhaps the PS6!
Baldur’s Gate 3 may be over, but Larian still has great projects to show us in a few years.
We brought you the sad news a few days ago now, Larian is closing the Baldur’s Gate III book; in other words, the developers do not plan to develop additional DLC for their gem and will not tackle a possible Baldur’s Gate 4 either. Instead, the head of the studio, Swen Vincke, tells journalists about GameSpot an idea its team had even before development of Baldur’s Gate 3 began: “ This is part of a larger plan I have in place for what I call the Greatest RPG that will dwarf them all.”. The boss nevertheless adds that it is such a long and complex plan that it will not yet be carried out in the studio’s next game.
I think there are technologies that we don’t have yet. I don’t know what the next-gen specs will be, but I hope we get something that gets us close.
For now, Vincke doesn’t want to say too much about what happens next, he only hopes that development doesn’t drag on like it did for Baldur’s Gate 3.”Six years is too long. We didn’t want it to last six years“. And to add: “I think if we could do something in four years we would be happy”. By 2028, we may therefore have something new from Larian.
The next game could still follow the early access model as developers are used to doing with the Destiny saga and Baldur’s Gate 3.
We’re focusing on creating a lot of the content, we’re moving into Early Access, we’re seeing what players think, if they agree with us. Then we move forward and see what happens. But the creative process involves a lot of discovery, and we’re in the pre-production stages, so we don’t know exactly what we’re going to do yet. We know the general direction.
A Baldur’s Gate 3 DLC could have arrived
Yet, a Baldur’s Gate 3 DLC, there could have been one, the Baldur’s 3 teams even considered it. During the Game Developers Conference, Swen Vincke gave an interview to IGN, stating in part: “Because of all this success, the obvious thing would have been to do DLC. So we started tackling it and even ended up considering a Baldur’s Gate 4”. Ultimately, the main ambition became that of simply moving away from the Dungeons and Dragons license. “5th edition D&D is not an easy system to integrate into a video game. We spent a lot of time on it and wanted to do new things“, concludes Vincke. And although we are inevitably a little disappointed, we won’t blame him.