Will there be a Baldur\u2019s Gate 4? Devs break silence Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s incredible popularity makes it a perfect candidate for a sequel, but will it get one? Devs have finally answered whether or not there we\u2019ll see a Baldur\u2019s Gate 4 from Larian. When your game breaks Steam records for player counts and wins Game of the Year, usually you start thinking about a sequel. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 did both of those things but it looks like Larian is taking a different route. Reports from IGN\u2019s coverage of the 2024 Game Developer\u2019s Conference, Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 Director Swen Vincke dashed hopes of a sequel from Larian. At the same time, he confirmed there would not be any DLC or expansions either. Vincke briefly explained the studio\u2019s reasoning for not capitalizing on the game\u2019s success and furthering the franchise. Larian will of course continue developing other titles. Why won\u2019t Larian be developing Baldur\u2019s Gate 4? Vincke, and by extension Larian, is leaving the Dungeons & Dragons IP behind. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to make Baldur\u2019s Gate 4\u2026we\u2019re going to move on,\u201d he said. Vincke explained that he was eager to try \u201csomething new\u201d and is hard at work on a new project. Being in its early stages, he\u2019s keeping a pretty tight lid on things but it won\u2019t be related to D&D in any way. However, Vincke did confirm on a Stream thread that Larian is currently working on two original IPs. Although what these games may be about is still a mystery for the time being. \u201cWe\u2019ve decided to seize this opportunity to develop our own IPs. We\u2019re currently working on two new projects and we couldn\u2019t be more excited about what the future has in store,\u201d said Vincke. Despite this all feeling a bit heartbreaking, Vincke did remind the audience that Baldur\u2019s Gate is actually the intellectual property of Wizards of the Coast. He clarified that they would be free to continue the franchise with another developer. Furthermore, Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 narrative director Adam Smith recently weighed in on whether or not fans can expect to see Baldur\u2019s Gate 4, with Smith revealing to Games Radar how Larian did try to pitch to the team a fourth game but that the ideas they presented \u201cdidn\u2019t excite\u201d any of the devs who worked on BG3. Smith later added, \u201cFor us, we didn\u2019t have anything unfinished that we wanted to say, we wanted to move on to other worlds\u2026we tried, we did start pushing around ideas for Baldur\u2019s Gate 4, and they didn\u2019t excite us, we didn\u2019t have the fire. It feels like it should have been a harder decision than it was, but it wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Will there be a Baldur\u2019s Gate 4? Devs break silence Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s incredible popularity makes it a perfect candidate for a sequel, but will it get one? Devs have finally answered whether or not there we\u2019ll see a Baldur\u2019s Gate 4 from Larian. When your game breaks Steam records for player counts and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}