“We are in great duty to them”: the host of the screenwriter Baldur’s Gate 3 hopes that the BioWare of the 90s would be proud of them
Larian Studios from the very beginning knew that he was doing something that is part of a much longer series, beloved by many long-standing gamers on PC. The host of Baldur’s Gate 3 Adam Smith told today during PC Gamer Chat Log that Larian has never lost sight of the previous parts of the series.
“It is easy to forget about this, because the game has already come out, but when we first started working on [Baldur’s Gate 3], it was the“ shoulders of giants ”. [Baldur’s Gate] was such a big shadow, ”Smith says. “We thought:“ Will we look good in this shadow? There was anxiety about this “.
Smith repeats the opinion that he often heard from the audience during early access to Baldur’s Gate 3: “This is Divinity: Original Sin 3, not Baldur’s Gate 3“. D: OS2, although one of the best role -playing games of recent years had a well -deserved reputation a little bright, stupid, and everything is constantly in fire, and Baldur’s Gate 3 really carries part of this atmosphere of Larian.
Smith said that his first love for role -playing games was Ultima 7, then Baldur’s Gate, and then BG2, which replaced the rest.
“We said:“ No, we love Baldur’s Gate. We want to make Baldur’s Gate 3 “. And for this there was a reason, because many of us grew up at these games “.
Smith mentions Jaheir, a member of the Druid group in the original Baldur’s Gate Games, as the most important character for him personally. He always wanted her to get into Baldur’s Gate 3 not only for the sake of transferring the torch to new heroes, but also to reflect on his past experience with losses, grief and what it means to return after more than 100 years.
“This means a lot when I see that someone who is at least remotely connected with original games is satisfied because we are in great duty to them, and we hope that they are proud of us,” says Smith. “If after 20 years someone takes our characters and does something with them, it will be amazing. It’s really wonderful that they live so long “.