After 2023, which was an awesome year for gaming, many titles were after the ultimate prize, becoming GOTY, but only one achieved this: Baldur’s Gate 3. This role-playing IP went to a whole other level when they added new and spectacular mechanics to the game.
With all this success, the director of the title, Swen Vincke, clarified in a recent interview how the studio will focus on its strength, the RPG genre that has managed to dominate so well. He added that the studio only wants to make the ambition worth what it does best.
Larian Studios and how Baldur’s Gate 3 became its best game yet
Announced back in 2019 with an amazing cinematic trailer, Baldur’s Gate 3 quickly became one of the most anticipated games in recent years. With an Early Access launch that gave feedback to the studio, the title was finally released on August 3, 2023, and not far from that, it became the GOTY. This is the first game that has won all the possible major awards in the gaming industry, including the BAFTA for Best Game of the Year.
Thanks to the community’s very good relationship with Larian Studios, the game has become one of the best RPGs of the last few years, which is why its success is undeniable. This hard work has made this independent studio really have a good perspective on what players want. Even the director stated in a recent interview that the company’s future is dependent on what it knows best.
Swen Vincke really wants the studio to keep making good RPGs
In a recent interview, Vincke talked about the future of the studio and what will come next. He also mentioned the strengths of the company. He said, “We’re a company that’s made to focus on a couple of things, and we actually are.” The director knows what is best for this studio and why they keep growing in the same genre and improving to levels that few other teams can achieve.
Vincke continued talking about this and said, “It would turn us into something different from what we are right now, and we don’t want to do that. We have ambitions to make excellent RPGs, and that’s sufficient.” Larian Studios’ next chapter will continue to expand on this genre, making all the ambitions focus on what this studio is fantastic at. Its director really wants to keep things as simple as possible.
There are very few details about the next project from the creators of Baldur’s Gate 3 and Divinity: Original Sin. Its director has said that it will be different from anything that the studio has made before. It will not be related to D&D, but it will certainly be an RPG, given what he said earlier. It will have new art and new mechanics, and it will really make the company work into new aspects of this genre that the team handles so well.
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