Any hope at all for another BG title?

General · Post by **General** » Wed Jan 02, 2002 1:27 am

Originally posted by Ode to a Grasshopper:
Maybe it could continue from ToB like ToB did from SoA. If you chose to become a God you could wage war on all the other Gods to gain their powers. The more Gods you killed the more powerful you'd become, with the final goal being to become the only god on Faerun.

Too real time strategy like

Originally posted by Ode to a Grasshopper:

If, on the other hand, you decided to remain a mortal, you could deal with having a mid-life crisis, raising a family (If you did the Aerie romance), and paying off the mortgage on your house .

Too sim like

Littiz · Post by **Littiz** » Wed Jan 02, 2002 3:02 am

Of course you're right Fable, but we HAVE
bought BG2 after all.
So a poll may show that a lot of people are more interested in a BG3 that, say, in NWN.
True for me, at least!

Merkidon · Post by **Merkidon** » Wed Jan 02, 2002 4:43 am

Hmm thats a good point.

Does anyone really want to be level 40 running around killing stuff?

Kinda too easy.. I think there's more fun to be had going from 1 to say, 30, then just romping at 40+.

It could always be a story 100 years later, when you find out that there was some trouble with the gods, maybe some kind of war or dispute who knows they're the writers not me,and you were put down, only to finally be regaining your strength (and thus having a level 10 avatar) due to some event. As you leveled up you'd get more powers and in the end you'd have two paths..either you reclaim your god-throne, or you live on as a mortal and slay dragons!

As the game progressed, there would be reference of past characters,cameo's, surviving characters, if they were really smart, they'd make it so the storyline was different depending on the romance you chose in bg2. If you didn't choose one, you'd have to pick one in character selection.

Race
Gender
Chick you boinked in BG2
Abilities
Appearance
etc.

The possibilities are pretty endless with a good imagination and the good writing at BioWare.

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Jan 02, 2002 5:47 am

Originally posted by Littiz:
Of course you're right Fable, but we HAVE
bought BG2 after all.
So a poll may show that a lot of people are more interested in a BG3 that, say, in NWN.

To Interplay, NWN held the hope of BG2 success *plus* grabbing the action crowd who love 3D graphics. At least, that's the way an Interplay rep once described it to me. And as he put it to me, there was nowhere else to take the BG2 story after ToB. The characters were too maxxed out on spells, items, weapons and skills. Battles lacked all strategic finesse.

Not to say I don't share your desire--I just know the story had come to an end, and I'm grateful for what we got. My chief concern is that Interplay's poor showings (combined with PoR II and Arcanum, neither of which has done very well) will make the bean counters start screaming that CRPGs Don't Sell, and we'll be back where we were half a decade ago, despite BG2 and Wizardry 8.

Really, NWN and the new Bioware/LucasArts Star Wars CRPG are the best hope for CRPG fans at this moment.