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Baldur's Gate 3 is a "mega hit" that Hasbro expects to pay dividends for years

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[–] xenoclast 165 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Read: We're just a clueless corporation but we intend to bleed this thing dry to pay for our yatchs.

[–] Cruxifux 30 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Well hopefully it means more awesome Larian games though.

Divinity was amazing, literally downloading baldurs gate to play with the wife for valentines as we speak, so I love them.

But it probably won’t, it probably just means shitty magic crossovers and other horrible nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I doubt Larian will return to D&D for the next game.

[–] pennomi 32 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Give them Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the internet will go berserk

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can we give them Dragon Age, because BioWare doesn’t seem to know what it’s doing anymore.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

At this point Bioware is just a skinsuit worn by EA. Once the skinsuit gets too stinky they will dispose of it and buy a new studio to make a fresh suit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If someone makes a new kotor game but uses the same extremely janky DND 3.x rules I am going to search my house for the monkey's paw. That would make me so mad.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Please don't use the money's paw. It will almost definitely change the game system to FATAL, and I do not, under any circumstances, want to roll for Zaalbar's anal circumference.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wizards of the Coast owner Hasbro, which says Larian's "mega hit" RPG, having driven around $90 million in revenue in the last year, is a good sign for more video games to come from the D&D license.

I don't know them, but this seems like they have understood that D&D is beneficial to their purse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Hasbro wants more games but that doesn't say Larian wants or has been contracted for more. It'd be dumb for Larian to at least not make an expansion. Though I do understand expanding the level cap is super difficult and a LOT of spells will need to be limited in scope.

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[–] RobertOwnageJunior 9 points 9 months ago

We'll just have Elminster in Fortnite.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

God i hope Larian never touches dnd again, they can do way better.

[–] [email protected] 130 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Y'all ready for a decade of moderately to incredibly broken, brain dead, pushed out the door for a quick buck D&D games?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (3 children)

At the top, there will be DnD, the trading card game

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They've already released Magic: The Gathering sets based on D&D.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

On Baldur's gate specifically even

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

BG3 the trading card game

FTFY

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

People seem to forget their gaming history. William SRD has an entire channel dedicated to incredibly broken, brain dead, pushed out the door for a quick buck D&D games.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I watch every episode of W.SRD, that's the only enjoyment I forsee for the future of Hasbro D&D video games

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[–] MIDItheKID 5 points 9 months ago

It's going to be like that time that GTA3 was a huge success, and a million shitty and broken "open world" games came out (Excluding Simpsons Hit and Run that game was great)

Or when WOW was a huge success and we were buried with a million shitty and broken MMO WOW clones.

Tale as old as tiiimeee.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

You mean Dark Alliance?

[–] [email protected] 116 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

I don't think they understand.

What made Baldurs Gate 3 great wasn't DnD it was Larian. Same for BG 1/2 and old BioWare.

You can't just create that level of care by pumping out lots of games, they'll probably fill them with MTX or GaaS bullshit to try and get more money from it as well.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The suits don't understand anything. They see game making money and they're like "more games equals more money"

The shovelware tsunami is imminent

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[–] RobertOwnageJunior 23 points 9 months ago

Of course they don't understand.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

You can absolutely license a crap load of games and be successful with it. Games Workshop does that with 40k. They haven't had much that's as huge as BG3, but the generally are reasonable games. Some are garbage mobile games, but a lot aren't that as well.

I doubt Hasbro/WotC can actually handle licensing out IP as successfully as GW, but it's totally possible to do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Concur. Larian is a breath of fresh air in a field saturated with pay-to-win, monetized, microtransaction nonsense. I'm not convinced they haven't traveled across dimensions to restore fun and sanity to a hobby that has been all but ruined by greed and laziness.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago

Lmao without Larian's dedication I doubt they're gonna get anywhere close to BG3 in the future

[–] mods_are_assholes 41 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Incoming Hasbro enshittifying every DnD game from now on with microtransactions and day 1 dlc.

This is why we can't have nice things. When they come along, the parent company strangles it for profit.

Every

Fuckdamn

Time

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Failed that roll? Reroll for only 300 Haswidgets.

That's $5 in USD

[–] LucasWaffyWaf 4 points 9 months ago

Upvoting largely because I love the way fuckdamn rolls off the tongue.

[–] Sprawlie 37 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Loved BG3. but it was the hit it was because it was done by people who love the D&D world and didn't attempt to live up to any specific monetary goals, nor did it rush out to try and beat some arbitrary deadline. it was done in the old style of development, by a relatively small team over long periods of time to showcase their labour of love.

given the history of D&D the company itself and it's more recent copyright monetization and attacking the playerbase for profit, I cannot see them pumping out other games that are anywhere CLOSE to what Larian produced.

Wee're going to get a whole lot of bullshit shovelware trying to ride BG3's excellence.

this is why we can't have nice things :(

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, the reason BG3 was so good was because unlike Hasbro and WoTC, they love the Forgotten Realms, and they love video games. If either weren't true, it would be an awful game.

[–] inclementimmigrant 26 points 9 months ago

Sigh...just more MBA assholes that don't understand squat about the industry they lead.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

Pls no shovelware

[–] Whirling_Cloudburst 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Its on my list, and I've played Solasta (loved it, but they level higher than BG3 does).

However, I think Pathfinder games do better Legendary adventures. The characters attain godlike strength in the end whereas D&D 5ed is not very good at that so far in the Video game space.

What ever happened to games like NeverWinter Nights where you could literally do a raid on the hells themselves or Neverwinter Nights 2 where you can make an attack on the God of the Dead's Domain.

Developers complain about how hard it its to do spells and powers past a certain level and yet their predecessors still found a way to do it even if they had to make certain limitations on them.

Still, I am glad to see BG3 a thing even if the characters are weak compared to the original ones from BG2.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

A game of the scale of BG3 in the PF2E ruleset would be so fucking amazing.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Without Larian and without the writers of the core books yeah I'm sure it'll be great totally won't do a 4th edition again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Didnt they say they were looking to sell D&D like last week?

Stock price manipulation.

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[–] Breezy 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I hope theres a new mtg game. They were all fun to me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

With MTG arena they don't really have incentive to make more games. Which is a shame because Duels of the Planeswalkers was fun

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[–] Son_of_dad 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Wish I could get into this game, but I'm so done with turn based fighting. I can't take another game with that mechanic

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