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Playing Divinity Original Sin 2 after Baldur's Gate 3 reveals Larian's commitment to perfecting its RPG recipe

Opinion | Everything that could have been done better in Divinity Original Sin 2 is actually done better in Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur's Gate 3 director's big Divinity mystery has apparently been solved – Larian hasn't confirmed it, but this detail sure wasn't an accident

The answer was seemingly hiding in the Divinity reveal trailer all along

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Larian's main focus for Divinity is 'to see how far we can push the diversity of companions' so intra-NPC relationships can feel more natural and complex

Your new best friends are getting a makeover.

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Baldur's Gate 3 character creator sickos rejoice, Larian's next RPG Divinity will have an "even better" character creator – "more colors, more options, more control"

I just hope it'll have a randomizer

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My biggest mistake in Divinity Original Sin 2 was treating the CRPG like Baldur's Gate 3

Now Playing | Why am I playing by rules that do not exist?

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No Baldur’s Gate 3 on Switch 2 shatters gamers' hopes

It could have been the perfect fit for Nintendo's AAA ambitions for the console.

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Larian's learnt a lot from Baldur's Gate 3 going into Divinity, including the fact that hand-crafted loot is probably better: 'Randomization did not save us much time'

Trimming the phat from the loot.

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Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity lead writer says AI-generated writing is a "3/10 at best" and "doesn't" actually improve game development

Larian Studios has toyed with AI tools

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Baldur's Gate 3 might not come to Switch 2 as Larian CEO says a port 'wasn't our decision to make'

Nintendo Switch 2's first Christmas sales fall short of the original Switch by 35% in the US, showing markedly less of an appetite over the Holidays.

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Larian says Divinity's character customisation will be 'even better' than Baldur's Gate 3's: 'More colors, more options, more control'

Prepare to enter a new frontier of hand-sculpted genitalia.

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As Baldur's Gate 3 devs move onto Divinity, Larian lead says the writing process is to "encourage the chaos" and break situations "in every conceivable way"

"To be at one with the chaos"

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Larian's head writer has a simple answer for how AI-generated text helps development: 'It doesn't,' thanks to its best output being 'a 3/10 at best' worse than his worst drafts

My worst drafts are a 5/10 but I might have lower standards.

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Divinity lead says "we're taking notes on all of the UI mods" for Baldur's Gate 3: "We had more improvements in mind that we just couldn't cram into our releases"

Larian's looking to modders for inspiration

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Baldur's Gate 3 composer Borislav 'Bobby' Slavov is coming back for Divinity: 'We wouldn't be able to stop him even if we wanted to'

Slavov's return was confirmed, twice, during today's AMA.

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The thing I wanted more of from Baldur's Gate 3 is also something Larian wants to improve on in Divinity: "More interaction between companions"

Just a couple of pals palling around an RPG

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Larian CEO Swen Vincke says it isn't using generative AI for Divinity art anymore, but it's still experimenting with it — "We're trying things out across departments"

According to Larian CEO Swen Vincke, it's no longer using generative AI for Divinity concept art. That doesn't mean the studio isn't still experimenting with it, though.

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For all the Divinity dev details Larian isn't ready to comment on, we got a firm answer about the game's controls: the studio's sticking to its guns on no WASD movement

I can respect it.

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"I wish Wyll had gotten more content and a more fulfilling arc too": Larian writer laments Baldur's Gate 3's unlucky Warlock, who played a much bigger role in stories that got cut

Larian had much greater ideas for the spellcaster

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Divinity will officially wave goodbye to Original Sin 2's broken armour system

Now, Larian, are Action Points returning?

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Baldur's Gate 3 director says Larian had "all the freedom we needed" to make the D&D RPG but adapting the tabletop format provided its own "limitations"

Wizards of the Coast was apparently not precious with its legendary tabletop game

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Larian swears off gen AI concept art tools and says 'There is not going to be any GenAI art in Divinity,' but it's still 'trying [AI] things out across departments'

Anyone else nervous?

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'I f**king hate gen AI art,' Hooded Horse chief says: 'If we're publishing the game, no f**king AI assets'

Tim Bender, the CEO of Manor Lords publisher Hooded Horse, says generative AI is "cancerous" and he doesn't want to deal with it.

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After Baldur's Gate 3's famous bear scene, Larian makes a threat or perhaps a promise about Divinity's lizards: "I am doing it right now"

This is all scandalous, really, and I'm ready for it

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Larian's big Q&A session on how it's using AI to help make its next game is happening tomorrow on Reddit

Fans seem more interested in hearing about Divinity than the development process, but that seems unlikely to happen.

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41 hours into Divinity Original Sin 2, I wish I'd broken a golden RPG rule by doing something frowned upon in Baldur's Gate 3

Now Playing | Guess I'll see Lohse, Ifan, and Beast next time

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