Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9519749" data-attributes="member: 18">Army-level strategy games are a suicide mission, like your odds of success are low double-digits!Of course:[ATTACH=full]387373[/ATTACH]If you do succeed, you potentially have a franchise, which might be quite long-running, because whilst army level strategy games don't usually sell great, they do have loyal fanbases.All we know about the next games is from Swen, who is an, um, unreliable narrator as it were. He contradicts himself and re-writes stories with some frequency. He's said a number of things that don't quite line up, that I'll try and lay them out:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They're working on specific two games.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They're not working on two specific games, one is specific, and the other is up in the air.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The specific one won't be DOS3 but will be familiar</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The specific one may be an entirely new IP</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The up in the air one may be a Divinity Tactics game</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Those games were planned since before BG3 came out.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The specific one he pitched during BG3's production at some point.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They're working on one specific game and it's an RPG that's bigger in scope than BG3.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Actually not it isn't bigger in scope, it's smaller</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They're working on one game codenamed Excalibur but they don't know what type of game it quite even is</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Anyone who tells you they know what Larian is working on even if they work at Larian is lying*</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The next game might be action</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There's no timeline for the next game, it'll come out when it's done</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">But that'll probably be 2029</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">But that'll probably be 2028</li> </ul>* = This is very funny because the only person who talks to the press about "what Larian are working on" is Swen himself.So we have very little idea what they're doing. The only other info we have is from hiring - sometimes this can be a very accurate guide to what a company is doing - though often we don't see the results for years. The positions that we've seen being advertised/hired seem like positions you'd hire for an RPG or certainly a very narrative-heavy game, because they're hiring more writers among other things (they did lose some after BG3, but if they genuinely didn't have any idea at all what was next, they would be unlikely to be hiring new ones).</blockquote>

Verification