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G2ThaUNiT on 20 July 2023
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TheLegendaryBigBoss said:
gtotheunit91 said:

Rockstar-level is pretty accurate when it comes to what Baldur's Gate 3 will be offering, especially in the CRPG space.

The genre has always been very niche and not many titles in the genre come out to this day. I mean, Baldur's Gate 3 contains 174 hours of cutscenes and 17,000 ending variations!!!! What game in history has come remotely close to numbers like this?!? That's the level of detail that can only be comparable to something that Rockstar would make.

It took a well known IP and a lot of dedication of resources to make a CRPG of this caliber. The genre in general never sells more than a few million copies at most. So is it unreasonable to expect the same level of quality and content for future CRPG's to have compared to BG3? It unfortunately is. The only IP I can see that could possibly get the same treatment down the road would be Fallout if it returned to its CRPG roots. But new titles are so few and far between in this genre, so who knows when we'll get the next one down the road.

Unless by some miracle, BG3 sells a ludicrous number of copies that causes publishers to take notice and start a golden age of the genre. I'll keep my fingers crossed for that lol.

The only notable games in the genre that have released somewhat recently are of course Divinity: Original Sin 2, Wasteland 3, Pillars of Eternity, Tyranny, and Torment: Tides of Numenera. 

Titles like that aren't going to get the kind of funding needed to have another Baldur's Gate 3. Should it be a standard though? HELL YES!

That makes sense, although if Obsidian are able to make Pillars 3 then I'm sure they will get the funding they need. From what I recall DOS2 was crowdfunded? That turned out to be one of the best RPGs

That is a good point. Pillars and DOS2 were crowdfunded. Wasteland 3 is a good example of what developers can be capable of with a higher budget. It was also a crowdfunded game, but when inXile was purchased by Xbox and the budget increased, they were able to hire more developers, hire voice actors, and implement conversational scenes with every dialogue prompt. And that was later in development. 

Obsidian and inXile aren't currently known to be working on another CRPG, inXile does have a second secret unannounced project, but that does give me hope that they'll have a proper budget if/when the time comes! 

In the meantime, I'm going to enjoy the hell out of Baldur's Gate 3! Bravo Larian!!!