You’d “wager their next game will be neither DnD nor BG”? Not really a wager in my view since they said they wouldn’t do it.
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I agree with the first part there, but it's a little naive to think it being D&D and having BG in the title didn't contribute to those 15M in sales. It absolutely did without a doubt.
When I say it didn’t ride BG and DnD coattails, I mean I don’t believe that was the driving force behind it’s success, not that BG and DnD had no impact at all.
I was replying to a post that said it had a profound effect. I don’t believe it did.
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I actually agree when it comes to the BG part, but I do think D&D played a big role. D&D grew quite a bit during covid, making the timing perfect for BG3.
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I would say that at best, there was equal mutual benefit in that DnD also grew significantly thanks to Larian making BG3 as good as it was. It's impossible to quantify, but I know a bunch of people who played DnD for the first time in their life to go through Descent into Avernus 5e campaign because canon-wise that was the story arc preceding BG3's story.
Covid confinement aided to it all, for sure. Bears keeping in mind that Larian had already doubled their sales from DOS1 to DOS2 while not having anything to do with DnD, wiith 94-95 scores on Metacritic, and being already globally regarded as the best CRPG makers of the moment.
Covid confinement aided to it all, for sure. Bears keeping in mind that Larian had already doubled their sales from DOS1 to DOS2 while not having anything to do with DnD, wiith 94-95 scores on Metacritic, and being already globally regarded as the best CRPG makers of the moment.
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IGN has a new written interview with Swen.
www.ign.com
Baldur's Gate 3: Director Swen Vincke Answers All Our Questions About Foregoing DLC, AAA Development, and More - IGN
IGN had the pleasure of sitting down with Larian Studios head Swen Vincke at GDC to talk about...well, everything. The talk we'd just heard, the news he dropped about Baldur's Gate 3, how the studio is doing post-release, how he feels about the games industry, all of it.
BG3's success was a combination of things:
- The popularity of D&D.
- The promise of a computer D&D game that was actually good for a change.
- The market value of the Baldur's Gate name.
- Larian's reputation as a proven developer of RPGs.
- Nostalgia.
- And most of all, the game itself is really excellent.
- The popularity of D&D.
- The promise of a computer D&D game that was actually good for a change.
- The market value of the Baldur's Gate name.
- Larian's reputation as a proven developer of RPGs.
- Nostalgia.
- And most of all, the game itself is really excellent.
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Swen did another interview that sounds a little presumptuous to me
www.eurogamer.net
Let's just hope his studio and 470 employee's continue to have success.
The big Larian interview: Swen Vincke on industry woes, optimism, and life after Baldur's Gate 3
Eurogamer sits down with Larian boss Swen Vincke to talk Baldur's Gate 3, the industry's woes, his cautious optimism an…
www.eurogamer.net
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Another interview for anyone interested.
www.gamefile.news
Interview: Baldur’s Gate III exec on what’s right and wrong with today's game industry
The death of marketing, the trouble with consoles, the best moves for laid off devs, how to do early access, plus... serums, sweatpants and more.
www.gamefile.news
Oof. Paywall, but you can start a trial after giving your email address and who knows what else. I'll pass.
Is it sorry the article was in my daily feed and I just copied it to the site.
Personally I hate pay walled sites.
Personally I hate pay walled sites.
Copy the hyperlink and paste it into the top textbox on this webpage: https://archive.ph/Is it sorry the article was in my daily feed and I just copied it to the site.
Personally I hate pay walled sites.
Bye bye paywalls!
Btw it doesn’t always work; sometimes the website is down for me
More awards for the game to add to the pile won already.
www.bafta.org
20th BAFTA Games Awards: The Winners & Nominations
Explore the winners and nominations for this year's BAFTA Games Awards, celebrating the very best games of 2023 and the talent who made them. Scroll down to view the full list, or click images below to reveal category winners and nominations. The 20th BAFTA Games Awards took place on Thursday 11...
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Some people are really hopeless.
The space bar is quite hard to miss on a keyboard...
Hm... I'm thinking hard about whether I should try to make a joke about not having hands free for the space bar...Some people are really hopeless.
The space bar is quite hard to miss on a keyboard...
Baldur's Gate 3 actors reveal the darker side of success fuelled by AI voice cloning
Larian's Baldur's Gate 3 has been celebrated for the performances of its voice cast, who received several performance n…
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Hasbro wants to make another Baldur's Gate sequel but it's early days yet: 'We certainly hope that it's not another 25 years'
"We're now talking to lots of partners and being approached by a lot of partners who are embracing the challenge of, what does the future of the Baldur's Gate franchise look like?"