Being in a more collaborative environment with less ownership might be a much desired break after what was likely a rough and stressful few years.
If they can find a way to keep someone like Staten around (until he wasn’t, lol) then they could probably find a way for Harvey.
That said, if he was still at Xbox he wouldn’t be at inbox zero lol.
Always nice to see praise from other devs
Crackpot Hopium time, what if after the release of avowed, that team at obsidian starts work on…. Baulders Gate 4? They’re obviously a far smaller team than Larian, but they can be joined by the rest of Obsidian later on, and also maybe by Inxile. And after BG4, all that work they did on that engine can be used to make a more modern pillars of eternity 3 for cheap! And Inxile gets to use the engine for a fallout isometric game! Everyone wins!
Except the Fallout fans hopiuming for New Vegas 2.
Don’t particularly think there is anything special about Baldurs Gate. The special part is what Larian did with it, notably the budget. If Obsidian were going to do something like that they’d do it with their own IP IMO.
The DND brand is very large, and has been steadily growing
If Obsidian were going to work on an IP that wasn’t their own it would be Fallout, one that MS already owns and one that people have been asking for for over a decade
Don’t think the DND brand had anything to do with the success of BG3. If it did, BG2 would have seen similar success.
Baldur’s Gate 3 was a unicorn case, Larian’s next game and BG4 will not touch it, success-wise.
Dnd is far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far more popular than it was back then
Indeed.
Good chunk of people buying BG3 didn’t even know it was a DND property lol. I think if you consider the things that contributed to the success of BG3, the IP is not in the top 3. It could have been any other fantasy IP and still been a very successful.
It’s as if they’re not there to end each other’s livelihood like people on the internet wanted to do. Seriously, this is nice.
On Gears collection… I hope it comes after Gears E-Day. Playing gears 1-3 after the prequel makes all the sense. Also, a proper remake like Resident Evil.
Can’t talk about BG4 without knowing who’s developing it.
But Larian’s next game, if it’s as massive budget wise as BG3 was, will be another huge sales hit, they are now up there with studios like From Software or CDProjekt.
I could agree in cases like the next games from the studios who created Hogwarts, Palworld, Helldivers 2, etc. Games that sold 10-20 or even more million copies, but games that were simply good.
But that’s not Larian’s case, Divinity: OS 2 was already a masterpiece that got a 93 MC score and had one of the highest positive rating percentage on Steam from a full priced game, BG3 had already secured many sales on its first days from some of these players, even then, before it’s release, Larian still wasn’t known by many gamers, and the word of mouth helped the game a lot during the first weeks.
BG3 is sitting at 96 on Metacritic and also 96% positives on Steam, even higher than Divinity 2, and sales wise it must be on it’s way to 20 millions, without any decent price cut, by the time their next game is released, BG3 might have sold around 40 million copies.
If they don’t fail, whatever they create next is going to do crazy numbers.
With the awful performance/bugs BG3 is massively overrated on MC/OC even to this day. Great game, in rough shape. They will not have the same budget as BG3 anytime soon nor do they want to do that big of a game for their next project.
I mean they can have the budget they want since they are independient and they made crazy amounts of money lately 
, AFAIK they said they were working on two projects now that would be big, which is obvious since its a near 500 developer studio, a really big one.
I don’t agree on their game being overrated due to bugs or performance, Oblivion is probably my favourite videogame ever, up there with FF8, it ran at 20-25 FPS most of the time, it was full of bugs, i had a gamebreaking one on my 20 hours game, i blamed myself for a min for having only a save slot, then happily started a new adventure with another character, and in my opinion it deserved each point of its 94 MC score.
The game was just that good, same goes for other gems like Elden Ring, Cyberpunk, BG3, Skyrim, i don’t like masterpieces like these getting their score lowered due to bugs or bad performance, specially now that we know it’s going to get fixed eventually
BG3 launched in a much worse state than a game like Skyrim. And much of act three is still held together by string, and probably won’t ever be fixed