D&D General WotC: 'Of Course We're Going To Do' Baldur's Gate 4

In an interview with The Game Business, Wizards of the Coast's president John Hight touched on the company's video games plans for Dungeons & Dragons.

Hight told interviewer Christopher Dring “Baldur’s Gate is an incredible game. And of course, we're going to do a successor."

Larian Studios, which made Baldur's Gate 3, has previously indicated that is not going to be involved in any potential sequels.

However, the previously announced game that game studio Giant Skull is currently working on is not Baldur's Gate 4. Hight says "This is not the successor to [Baldur's Gate 3]. We go to Stig and his team to tell an incredible story and bring D&D to a very broad audience. Ideally, the game will appeal to D&D players because it will help them realise their imagination. But it’s also going to hopefully appeal to people that love playing action games, that love the Jedi games, that love God of War games." Giant Skull's game will be a single-player action-adventure game.

Giant Skull's Stig Asmussen spoke a little about that--as yet untitled--game: "A lot of us have grown up on Dungeons & Dragons. And for me, with a new company, this is something that we’re good at. We're good at working with partners. We're good at capturing the spirit of those worlds. It wasn't something that we could just walk away from. It was actually a pretty easy [decision]... Dungeons & Dragons is the definition of a playground. When we had the meeting in Renton [Washington], my mind opened up to the possibilities of what we could do. There’s still a lot of things that we have to abide by. There’s the spirit of Dungeons & Dragons. There are the worlds, player agency and choice, building a party, actions have consequences… those types of things."

Giant Skull was founded by Stig Asmussen in 2023. Asmussen previously was the game director of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, as well as God of War 3.

 

[TwoSix]

That is one possible issue, yes. Another might be the same three people on EN World have already decided to hate it sight-unseen, purely because of the name of the producer.

For me, I certainly would love more BG3. It's just that without Larian, and instead a company without a track record of strong CRPG production, the odds that BG4 will actually be more BG3 aren't favorable.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

For me, I certainly would love more BG3. It's just that without Larian, and instead a company without a track record of strong CRPG production, the odds that BG4 will actually be more BG3 aren't favorable.

Worse than that, the latter ("a company without a track record of strong CRPG production") means it's unlikely to even be an okay game if they go straight for BG4. It's likely to be another Sword Coast Legends.

 

[wicked cool]

There seems to be real buzz/hooe/excitement from critics regarding exodus so that sort of potentially turns this entire argument on its head

Second regarding bg4. We don’t know who/what studio will write this etc. say as an example they had obsidian make it. Obsidian has a mixed track record but with time and money it’s a solid gamble. And no offense but a lot of this is a gamble on wotc part

Ea/bioware and Bethesda are both studios with big money that for the most part have seemed to f up after a big game
Skyrim-my opinion their best game and everything else that has come after isn’t as good. Also scary that no studio has been able to be the next Skyrim (fall of Avalon was just mentioned but it’s not in the same ballpark)
BioWare-inquisition is one of the most unique games out there. There isn’t any other game that falls into the fast/rpg with the character depth/cutscenes character creation etc etc. Witcher 3 is very different and probably the closest. BioWare developers were given time and a boat load of cash and 3 tiles after inquisition were total bombs. Beautiful bombs but bombshell nevertheless. Poor management and writing led to that .. on veilguard there were early signs and people discounted the online YouTubers that have millions of followers each including some that played the game before release telling the rest of us it’s just not very good

Many are saying games like exodus and expanse are the new mass effects

Wotc just cancelled some video game project that sort of looked like inquisition. For some reason they thought it didn’t meet their standards. I think that’s positive as opposed to BioWare/bethesda releasing games like veilguard that didn’t meet standards!