Gi - Larian Studios is a Belgian game studio best known for their hardcore role-playing games (RPG). The developer established in 1996 is responsible for the Divinity RPG series. However, Larian’s upcoming game strays from RPG to the world of real-time strategy (RTS).
With confirmation that Larian Studios will not develop another Baldur's Gate game, the fourth entry has a major challenge on its hands.
Larian had big shoes to fill themselves. Hopefully another studio can pull off the same miracle, but uphill battle is an understatement at this point. It feels impossible that BG3 even exists and accomplishes what it does.
I doubt anyone will attempt a Baldur’s Gate 4 for minimum a decade. It took about 20 years to get a third one for a a reason.
I'd just copy every single thing larian did obviously with different story and characters. Sometimes innovation isn't needed at that particular time.
i remember in an interview that it was Larian asking constantly that they wanted to develop Baldurs Gate 3, there has to be some really ugly business going behind the scenes for them to leave in such a way, no DLC no sequel nothing, either they are getting very low return after the huge success, or some of the business practices they have seen are truly terrible.
ive read elsewhere that WOTC are a nightmare to deal with, in particular i love the dragonlance series and they repeatedly shut down proposals for books and even tv series....so yeah one can only imagine whats happening over there now, them rubbing their greedy little hands together
Danish from eXputer: "FromSoftware and Larian Studios have shown that a good workplace environment is what it really takes to make good games."
Larian Studios' CEO Swen Vincke recently appeared in an interview and clarified that he does not see GenAI as a replacement for developers.
If you're hiring less writers to write the dialogue that AI writes instead...isn't that replacing writers?
Exactly he doesn't see it replacing devs... Immediately mentions replacing writers hahaha
It also means the same amount of writers can now produce more dialogues with the same amount of budgets, game development doesn't have infinite budget, AI when used correctly, can help generate some dialogues, and then still need writers to have another pass through to make sure those make sense in the game world.
Not really, its a different role. Now you're scripting ai on how they should respond, keywords, language, etc
If anything, you'll need to be a good script writer to direct ai npcs.
Its a new field for them!
This is the thing. First AI will be used to get rid of all the low level repetitive task and as it evolves it will be used to get rid of more people.
