Larian are good developers. BG3 is a finished game with more potential and replayability that anything else. Let these guys cook.
Going quiet, heads down, focusing on the product instead of the hype. Larian doing it right.
Larian has said in the past that two games are in development. One that is their ip and one that is a licensed ip.
I would literally murder someone for a larian fallout.
So far we’ve had “amazing Fallout RPG on a janky engine” when (Black Isle / Obsidian) developed it, and “bland Fallout RPG on a janky engine” when Bethesda have developed it. Having both great writers and a decent engine would be amazing for Fallout, although just Obsidian and their Pillars of Eternity engine would be perfect with me.
Larian have said that they’d like to get away from DnD 5e after working on BG3 for so long, so I’m assuming they won’t have licensed Pathfinder either. If we take the set of all possible IPs and strike out those two, then that must make Fallout more likely. (Albeit not very likely.)
With the renewed interest from the show, it would make sense for Microsoft to get someone else working on a Fallout game since Bethesda isn’t going to do it any time soon. However, I would think that Obsidian would be the more natural choice. I would guess that MS would prefer to utilize one of the studios they own rather than license it out, but I could be wrong about that.
And even if they did license out development on a Fallout game, I would assume that they would be in a hurry to get something out there, which would make Larian far less appealing to them. I agree that they would probably make an amazing Fallout game, but another studio would probably make a decent enough game that costs less to develop and pays off sooner.
The foreseeable?
Short for “the foreseeable future”
I assumed it was the foreseeable past. It’s a long time so I can see far.
Doesn’t “foresee” mean to look forward, to predict?
Wait, what about patch 8?
So, Patch 8 is preparing for stress testing later this month (from what I’ve seen), so that would imply most development work is complete and they’re doing testing and bug fixing right now. That wouldn’t require most of their resources anymore.
Now Baldur’s Gate 4.
They’ve pretty concretely ruled out another stint working with a wotc in their current form
Not happening
If the next game is as impeccable as BG3, then this media blackout to create hype is the cleverest marketing move I have ever seen.
Every studio does this though. “Media Blackout” is just everything up to the reveal trailer.
looks back at the 7 year old Elder Scrolls 6 trailer
It barely qualifies as a teaser, but I concede that.
