Please, please don't let there be a BGIII.

[wise grimwald]

In a sense BG3, BG4, BG5 etc. have already been made.
I refer to the many excellent mods that have been made that add quests to the existing games.
I think that this is the way forward. Mods like the Drizt Saga and the Greyclan episode just add to the existing game without making "a new game". What would be great would be to have similar but even more extensive mods, however someone has to pay for that much development and I can't see it happening.
I hope that I am wrong, but I think that without proper funding we are unlikely to get anything much larger than the mods already mentioned.
The world is a big place, even bigger with the new worldmap, so there is plenty of scope for further adventures.
We have already had official expansions of the games, why not further official expansions that make use of the larger worldmap?

[td0100110]

I would love to see the original series rebuilt with something like an infinity engine 2.0... an engine that looked and felt like the original, but was capable of greater things.
It would still have to be 2d, and it would need to have the same camera views, I would want to have my good old portait bar on the right, and controls and everything exactly how they were before.
But, imagine the Cloakwood areas, or Baldur's Gate and Athkatla with todays technologies behind their designing.

I think that BG doesnt need a sequal, it could just really use some TLC into the 21st century.

Although, i would love to be able to deal in the politics of deity's and archdevil's if their ever was a true sequal to the BG series. And, I dont think it would truly matter whether your character decided to ascend or not... I felt like a god long before the end of ToB.

None of the old NPCS... if you were married, no damn children, your wife/husband is dead. no longer with you or capable of being with you.
Maybe you join up with some of the greatest powers in the realms. I want to feel the gravity of the situation if their ever is a sequal. I mean, surely i pissed off someone pretty powerful during the course of the BG series... Heck... if its going to HAVE to be 4e, Elminsters insane... make him the badguy... I'll kill em. But plx no 4e :/