While not perfect I thought their combat designed improved a lot when they went turn-based for Rogue Trader.
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Baldur's Gate 4: who should develop it?
- Thread starter Stef
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While not perfect I thought their combat designed improved a lot when they went turn-based for Rogue Trader.
It kinda depends. Does it have to be a CRPG? If so, then the only two devs I think with recent and good experience would be InXile and Owlcat. Owlcat i'm less sold on, I don't think the Pathfinder games are actually that fun since imo the encounter design in them is super poorly balanced, but it's hard to know how much of that is due to Pathfinder 1e itself. But they do have the experience translating a tabletop roleplaying system to a game.
It seems like it'd be a huge undertaking for InXile since they're not a huge dev, and I can't imagine them dedicating their entire studio to an IP they/Microsoft don't own.
It seems like it'd be a huge undertaking for InXile since they're not a huge dev, and I can't imagine them dedicating their entire studio to an IP they/Microsoft don't own.
Supergiant
They have strong direction, characters, writing, and combat systems going back years
They have strong direction, characters, writing, and combat systems going back years
Ascendant, inspired choice, and I'd be really interested in seeing it too
Nobody. Larian must have a damn good reason to not work with WftC again. I wouldn't want any studio to waste their time on that especially when the bar is so high it's near impossible to follow up from BG3. It's a disaster in the making.
lol what
larian is bottom of the barrel when it comes to crpg writing
the day owlcat or other studios need to match their writing with theirs is the day i abandon the genre forever
Literally just look at an Owlcat game and tell me how you sell that as BG4 after what Larian made, the production value is worlds apart
Owl Cat Games is probably the best equipped alternate dev team to do a nice successor to BG1 & 2, but what BG3 represents is quite different now and more akin to a Bioware Dragon Age like game. I think they'd be better off doing side-entries related to the games without going into 4 sequel territory as that's unlikely to appease what fans what out of the game now
Production value (specially on presentation) is one thing
Quality of writing is another, completely different
Yeah nevermind I read the wrong parts of that post
Really though, I think Owlcat or Obsidian are great choices but I also don't how they could follow up BG3 successfully
Larian, but they don't want it, so Obsidian without them as an option.
They're an absolutely tiny studio. According to google, 23 people. They'd need to staff up 10 fold to handle a project like this.
They're an absolutely tiny studio. According to google, 23 people. They'd need to staff up 10 fold to handle a project like this.
The last game's budget was $100Mil, the sequel will be more - with 5-6 years of good planning, you could staff that (and keep the creative leads in place).
whether you wanted to stay that big after is another story
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True, but it kinda goes against everything I know about the company. Just not their bag, ya know? They don't really fire or do layoffs. Who knows if their culture could survive that much of an expansion.
True, but it kinda goes against everything I know about the company. Just not their bag, ya know? They don't really fire or do layoffs. Who knows if their culture could survive that much of an expansion.
