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Originally Posted by Ellester Just to point out when I’m using FR, I mean the Forgotten Realms, so it does knock out all the games that you mentioned that are not linked to the FR’s. The setting needs to be true before the story, IMO. IWD2 for example, the setting was more important than the continuation of a story.
And if you feel PS:T could not have been a BG game, then that’s fine, I respect your position. But, I still think that if they released it as Baldurs Gate: Planescape I wouldn’t have known the difference standing here today. The writing I don’t think makes a difference. If SOA had tons of dialog trees where I sat around talking to one character for 10 minutes, or just had a horrible story I still would have thought it was BG2. |
You just contradicted yourself. You knocked out the games that were not part of the 'Forgotten Realms', yet you say Planescape: Torment could be a BG expansion. Well, Planescape is a whole new campaign setting (as is Grey Hawk, Eberron, Rokugan, etc.)
The setting has only a minor factor in determining whether or not it can/should be connected to another franchise. If another game was released, based in Icewind Dale, would it be Icewind Dale 3? Or could it possibly be called something completely different? Even if the game play is almost the exact same (in that it is a dungeon crawl), does that mean it should be labeled under the same series?
As Fable has mentioned, your criteria for makes up the Baldur's Gate series is vague, and quite commonplace in many games. By the same logic, Ruin's of Myth Drannor could be included as a BG game (ignoring the fact it was made by a seperate company), as it includes many of the same criteria you so listed, yet has no actual connection to the Baldur's Gate series at all.
What made the Baldur's Gate series what it was, was the connection established by the playable characters and the story arc. The only way to effectively, and legitmately make a BG3, is to make the game a prequl, somehow involving the Bhaalspawn, or those closely related to the Bhaalspawn (which is complelely plausible).