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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Larian - What They Never Told You

The Baldur's Gate remakes should scrap the original combat system and fully embrace superior turn-based fights

I have picked my hill to die on.

PC Gamer

A Baldur's Gate 2 remake is apparently in development, with the original co-lead designer returning

The Bhaalspawn are back, baby!

PC Gamer

Baldur's Gate 3 writer says its Dragon-Agey rep system is there to stop you totally breaking the NPCs, but it 'becomes a dice roll' at points to keep romance natural

Work smarter, not harder. Still insanely hard, though.

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Surprise! Baldur's Gate 3 got a fresh patch. Unsurprise! It's vanishingly small, but at least it repairs some corrupted saves

It's a treat just to see you in my newsfeed again, BG3.

PC Gamer

Baldur's Gate 3 director says the RPG's endings were made to "serve as narrative soil for new adventures," so he's "eager to find out which ones" will be adapted in the TV show

"There's plenty of directions they could go"

Total Film

Baldur's Gate 3 TV show: Everything we know so far about the upcoming HBO fantasy series

All we know so far about HBO's upcoming Baldur's Gate 3 TV show

Total Film

Larian isn't involved in the Baldur's Gate TV show, but Swen Vincke says his conversation with Craig Mazin gave him "hope"

"Craig did reach out to ask if he could come over to the studio to speak with us"

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Baldur’s Gate TV series in development at HBO with Craig Mazin, will continue Baldur’s Gate 3 story

Is our Tav alive? Does Shadowheart still serve Shar? We'll know soon enough!

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Baldur's Gate 3 director agrees with No Rest for the Wicked lead that Early Access is "a positive thing" for games like their two RPGs – when it works

"When players and devs unite… beautiful things happen"

GamesRadar

Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says "there's no f*cking way AI could make" anything like Larian's hit RPG: "It's too interesting, subtle, crazy, off the wall, pathos-filled. It's too human"

"F*ck AI"

GamesRadar

Baldur's Gate 3 director and Larian Studios founder shouts out the "unsung heroes" who make games like the new Divinity possible: "They love the team fiercely"

Swen Vincke wants everyone to know who keeps Larian running

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Baldur's Gate 3 dev hints there will be sex scenes in Divinity, just in case the trailer's big orgy didn't give it away: "Does a bear... in the woods?"

"WHAT DOES HE DO IN THE WOODS GREG."

GamesRadar

Divinity: Original Sin 2's brilliant armor system is one of a kind in RPGs, and I'm bummed we'll apparently never see it again

Sic transit gloria mundi.

PC Gamer

Larian learned Divinity: Original Sin's random loot is "frequently confusing" and didn't "save us much time," which is why Baldur's Gate 3 and now Divinity are handcrafted

Ditching its older siblings

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Baldur's Gate 3's lead writer hopes we won't want to save scum in Divinity: 'Our ambition is certainly to make failure more interesting'

F5 + F8, save scummers say "great" / Overwriting autosave, scummers behave!

PC Gamer

Divinity's reveal trailer was brutal and dark for a reason, Larian's writing director says: 'We want to give players the opportunity to be the light in that darkness'

But not in the way that those dudes who got burned alive in the trailer were lighting up the darkness, I suppose.

PC Gamer

Larian's given us a single-word spoiler for Divinity, its next game, and for some reason it's 'alligator'

Spoiler alert for the future.

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Divinity will have co-op at launch and the number of possible players depends on "the final party size," but Larian says mod support can "extend this"

The limit does not exist

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We're getting Divinity over more Baldur's Gate 3 because Larian devs weren't enjoying "doing the D&D thing"

Thankfully, Swen Vincke says the devs are now "excited about what [they're] making"

GamesRadar

Baldur's Gate 3 director says "a lot has become lost in translation" since Divinity's announcement and the AI blowback that followed: "It would be irresponsible for us not to evaluate new technologies"

"Our successes come from empowering people to work in their own way and bring the best out of their skill & craft, so that we can make the best RPGs we can possibly make"

GamesRadar

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 lead says AI "may mean the demise of humanity" and the "end of most big publishers," but if "AI can help me make an epic game in a year with a smaller team like in the old days, I'm all for it"

"How many horse breeders lost their jobs thanks to Henry Ford!?"

Windows Central

Larian Studios' next Divinity game will be a turn-based RPG — and the studio is using generative AI for ideation

In an interview, Larian Studios confirmed that the recently-revealed Divinity is a turn-based RPG, and the team is experimenting with generative AI workflows.

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Baldur's Gate 3 devs didn't want to include a core D&D rule in their RPG, but players proved them wrong: "We were afraid it was going to slow down the gameplay too much"

Larian had a swift Reaction

GamesRadar

Divinity producer says using AI for "unimportant lines" removes "the chance to support performers" such as Baldur's Gate 3 star Jennifer English: "Every VA starts small"

Voice actors "progressively level up" through these smaller roles

TechRadar

Baldur's Gate 3 director says the game's cinematics and how choices were portrayed is one of the 'biggest lessons' Larian is bringing to Divinity — 'I think that was probably my biggest takeaway from everything'

Larian Studios founder and Baldur's Gate 3 director, Swen Vincke, has said Divinity will feature cinematics unlike previous iterations in the series.

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