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Old 05-02-2007, 01:42 PM
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Dragon Wench speaks great wisdom. I must however state that it doesn't look like the industry is ready for a game like this. I simply don't see anyone willing and (more importantly atm) able to make a game that offers A GREAT STORY/EXPERIENCE. It's simply not the focus these days. Action games and the such can much easier be send out incomplete, bugged, etc than a story driven game. Making additions and fixing bugs through patches is more of an option for them. None (?) but Blizzard seem to be able to transcend the publishers and do what they want.

I think you really need to ask yourselves if you want another Baldur's Gate game. Believe me, the thought makes my heart pump a little faster too. But it's like a bottomless desire. What you really want to do is experience Baldur's Gate again from the start, like it's something new. Baldur's Gate 3 won't give you that. Like many I don't see a continuation of the Bhaalspawn Saga. It was finished and in my opinion finished well. A game that has no tie to the Bhaalspawn Saga has no right to be called BG 3 in my mind. It'd just be a sales tool.

So what can we do? Nothing much, except making our voice heard and really show the publishers that we are looking for a story experience of great quality, rather than another (excuse my extreme opinion) ZOMG EPIX LEVELZ PRESTIGE CLASS +20 WPNS DRAGONSLAUGHTER Neverwinter Nights 2. I don't want to be the huge hero that comes out of nowhere and sets things right. WHO YOU ARE is so much more than your pick of the dozens of (prestige) classes + an alignment.

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