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The Co-Lead Designer of Baldur's Gate 2 Turned Baldur's Gate 4 Down and I Don't Blame Him — Baldur's Gate 3 Is Pretty Mu

After Baldur’s Gate 3’s enormous success, Baldur’s Gate 4 feels like an inevitability. That’s how the entertainment industry normally works: if a product everyone loves makes hundreds of millions of dollars, it’s guaranteed a sequel. But I’m not sure that established thinking works when it comes to Baldur’s Gate 4. First off, Larian itself moved on from Dungeons & Dragons to make Divinity. In an interview with IGN at GDC 2024, CEO Swen Vincke revealed Larian began work on Baldur’s Gate 3 DLC and even gave some thought to a potential Baldur's Gate 4 before pivoting away to other projects because the team was "going through the motions." "You could see the team was doing it because everyone felt like we had to do it, but it wasn’t really coming from the heart, and we’re very much a studio from the heart," Vincke added. "It’s what gotten us into misery and it’s also been the reasons for our success." Hasbro, which owns Dungeonis & Dragons operator Wizards of the Coast, has since said it intends to make Baldur's Gate 4. But it turns out developers are actually turning the project down, and while that sounds astonishing to hear, it makes perfect sense to me. PC Gamer spoke with James Oh

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The Co-Lead Designer of Baldur's Gate 2 Turned Baldur's Gate 4 Down and I Don't Blame Him — Baldur's Gate 3 Is Pretty Much Impossible to Follow

After Baldur’s Gate 3’s enormous success, Baldur’s Gate 4 feels like an inevitability. That’s how the entertainment industry normally works: if a product everyone loves makes hundreds of millions of dollars, it’s guaranteed a sequel. But…

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