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G2ThaUNiT on 15 October 2024
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LegitHyperbole said:
HoloDust said:

Pretty much all their games feel like theme parks, and not actual worlds - BG3 is just the latest example.

Which is fine, there is a place for that as well, especially if they went for depicting much smaller areas than BG3 is supposed to cover. That's the reason, why I said (back then, not knowing they will move away from D&D) that they should do Castle Ravenloft/Curse of Strahd next - size and self-contained character of that "world" would play to their advantage, and I can easily see such game being their opus magnum.

But for actual full-fledged fantasy worlds - yeah, no...so far at least.

Yeah I suppose I agree. But it is intended to simulate the taple top experience and their games do exactly that. I've never seen a DM do any grand open world, it's also small on foot strolls like in these games. I would like to see what larian could do if they could bring in their branching paths to something with the scope of Slyrim/The Witcher 3 and perhaps even real time combat in the way the outer worlds or the new Xbox exclusive by obsidian does. My fear though is they'd have to make too many sacrifices but if anyone could do it, it'd be them. They've already went with full cutscenes the next step is getting an over the shoulder camera and a combat system working... God, Imagine how great Divinity Original Sin 2 was remade into a real time action game like those titles and kept all it's intricacies intact. 😍 

This is actually a reason why I haven't played their games in single player. You get SO MUCH more enjoyment out of their games when you're playing with friends because it's a simulation of the tabletop experience. 

Larian truly is a special studio in that regard. Swen has already said their next game may release by 2028, which I feel like would be a short amount of time if their next game doesn't continue the types of games they make. I feel like their games are too large to be able to properly bring that experience to the scope of a Skyrim or Witcher 3. 

My dream Larian game would be an isometric Fallout game! I would lose my shit if that happened