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.
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