D&D General Should BG4 be a new story or continue on from BG3's story?

[Zardnaar]

Sure, it requires work, didn’t say it didn’t. And, coming out after another 6 years of graphical advancements, you would want new assets anyway.

The point is there is nothing stopping the new developers creating something with the exact same look and feel as BG3. It doesn’t have to be different just because it’s not Larian.

You can use a game engine for years.

You can do it sure. Reality is the expense.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

You can use a game engine for years.

And the one Larian used for BG3 had already been in use for many years and was falling apart at the seams.

You can do it sure. Reality is the expense.

I really don't like were this thought is going, but AI could make it much easier and cheaper to reproduce BG3 in a new engine.

 

[Zardnaar]

And the one Larian used for BG3 had already been in use for many years and was falling apart at the seams.

I really don't like were this thought is going, but AI could make it much easier and cheaper to reproduce BG3 in a new engine.

AI would basically copy someone else's engine. That's a lawsuit right there.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

I think they're just going to be using the Unreal Engine like almost every other game out there. I'm pretty sure a bunch of the announced video games from WotC are using the Unreal Engine.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

AI would basically copy someone else's engine. That's a lawsuit right there.

Given the way courts have been ruling, any lawsuit would likely fail. But you would probably buy in an engine, such as Unity 5, and tell the AI to rebuild BG3 in that engine.

 

[TiQuinn]

I know they’ve already said No to this but I’d rather DLC that rounds out BG3’s storylines a bit, and then have BG4 focus on other characters again - essentially the same formula they’ve always followed.

 

[TwoSix]

I know they’ve already said No to this but I’d rather DLC that rounds out BG3’s storylines a bit, and then have BG4 focus on other characters again - essentially the same formula they’ve always followed.

I think we all would have preferred a robust set of DLC for BG3; unfortunately, that's not the timeline we landed in.

 

[TiQuinn]

I think we all would have preferred a robust set of DLC for BG3; unfortunately, that's not the timeline we landed in.

Well gosh darn it, I wanna change the timeline then.

 

[TwoSix]

Well gosh darn it, I wanna change the timeline then.

I try to comfort myself with the knowledge a lot of companies would have made the patch 8 subclasses a paid DLC.