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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Squire James" data-source="post: 5662591" data-attributes="member: 548">It is my opinion that companies should not be so willing to change their engines completely between games.  The Baldur's Gate engine worked well for several games and several more expansion packs.  Before that, the "Gold Box" games spawned by the truckload, and a construction set at the end lasted several more years (partially due to what would now be called "modding").Nowadays every game seems to be done by a different set of dudes that have COMPLETELY different ideas of how the game engine should be!  Why even bother selling a D&D game license to someone if different people end up doing every game?!  Frankly, I am not in the least bit surprised how the last few D&D games came out... every one was by a different gang of people with an entirely different vision.Changing engines each time is expensive, and risky.  Keep the engine the same and churn them out until one does bad.  That system worked fine for Final Fantasy... until they fell into the same "change it every time" trap!</blockquote>