| Besides the cash influence, why you would call it BG3? Because it plays in style like a BG game. If it has a central character with joinable NPC’s that are interactive, it’s set in the FR’s, romances maybe, it is a large game and it allows you to have some freedom of exploration, and has a new epic story, then in my opinion it will play like a BG game. And that’s what they are probably trying to do. The BG games had a formula for success and it wasn’t just the story. Heck all the little things in the game was a strong point for me. Anyway, they’ll try to recreate that formula for success in BG3.
If it were another game, it would be like IWD, where they wanted it to be different from BG. So you could create your own party and the game was very linear etc… A new game set in the FR’s would try to be something new and different than NWN, IWD or the BG games. If it weren’t it would get slammed for being a replica of another game (BG or NWN for example). Whereas a BG3 will try to copy the formula of the BG games and make it better. Hence, why I’m glad they’re calling it BG3. Even though the story is over I still want a game that plays like the BG series and I hope I get it with BG3.  |