‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K

The Baldur's Gate series is one of the best cRPG series that exists. When another company wanted to use the name for their games they made a separate series called Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. Larian's defilement of this series being rewarded like this just breaks my heart. They could have easily called it Baldur's Gate: Ulitharid or something, but no, they had to stir up maximum nostalgia by calling their game which has about as much to do with the original trilogy (yes, we, the real fans, called it the Baldur's Gate trilogy back in the day) as Star Trek has to do with Star Wars "Baldur's Gate 3". If it were still just "Divinity Faerun" but actually continued the story of the Bhaalspawn it would be fine, it may even have been interesting to play a really high-level adventure, but instead they do this shit and because it looks fancy people eat it up hook, line, and sinker. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I can't deal with this. It reminds me of those activists who glue themselves to works of art, but whereas those people at least nominally have a good reason to do so, Larian is only out for self-interest. While I am probably taking things too seriously, after all it's "only a game", only a piece of childish amusement, I still feel like I can't deal with the disappointment. The statement "gamers have no standards" has never felt as real as it does now. It's like as if Ultima IX had been successful, a clear showing that "video games are art" is an empty, hollow statement, easily disproven by a single look at reality.

I've accepted the fact that it's "just" a good game and try to enjoy it. For a real BG game, Obsidian is probably our best hope.

I don't understand your objection.

You're unhappy that it's titled like a thematic sequel but isn't one? Or that the gameplay is too different than it's predecessors? Or something else?

> For a real BG game, Obsidian is probably our best hope.

They had their chance and came out lacking.

I thought Pillars of Eternity was pretty good.

I've played the original, that came on 5 CD-ROMs, the expansion, Baldur's Gate 2 on launch, the expansion and have played it over and over again for over 20 years at this point. I also played table top games and read the novels behind Toril, like Elminster and Drizzt. I was extremely skeptical of 3 but the developers are clearly dedicated fans of not only the original but also DnD and Faerûn, IT IS a worthy successor of the originals and an excellent adaptation of the 5E ruleset.

They had to start a new character at level 1 anything else would've made no sense at all and you clearly don't know what you are talking about if you think they could've continued the Bhaalspawn story (at level 31/40+) after Throne of Bhaal.

But it's funny because you basically sound like me before I actually gave it a shot, I didn't think they could've possibly pulled this off, but they did, as unlikely as that sounds in the gaming world today. In many aspects it is even closer to the table top experience, which to emulate, was the entire point of the original, but some things couldn't be done because of technical limitations at the time.

Just give it a fair shot, it's worth it.