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Baldur\u2019s Gate 4 appears to have developers running scared because they\u2019re worried about meeting expectations set by Larian\u2019s Baldur\u2019s Gate 3<\/a>. But one developer has said they would consider making the game a \u201cgreat challenge\u201d \u2014 although they\u2019d avoid simply replicating what had gone before.<\/p>\n

After Larian decided against making Baldur\u2019s Gate 4 and left Dungeons & Dragons behind to work on Divinity<\/a>, fans have wondered which studio might be capable of taking on perhaps the toughest sequel in all video games. Among the studios that are often mentioned in online debates about who to turn to is Owlcat Games.<\/p>\n

Owlcat is the developer of a number of well-received role-playing games including cRPG Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader<\/a>, which was compared to Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 upon its 2023 release. Rogue Trader is considered one of the best Warhammer 40,000 video games ever made, with fantastic characters, a gripping story, and over 100 hours of content \u2014 just like Baldur\u2019s Gate 3.<\/p>\n

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While it didn\u2019t quite reach the heights of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, Rogue Trader did well enough for Owlcat to secure a follow-up, Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy<\/a>, which has many fans not just of Games Workshop\u2019s grimdark setting on high alert, but cRPG fans rubbing their hands in anticipation.<\/p>\n

So, would Owlcat answer the call, if Hasbro were to pick up the phone and ask it to make Baldur\u2019s Gate 4? That\u2019s the question I put to co-founder and creative director Alexander Mishulin, and\u2026 well, he didn\u2019t say no!<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, I would like to thank all the players, all your audience that consider us to be able to do that,\u201d he began, diplomatically. \u201cIt’s a really great honor. You already said that we are a little bit masochistic. So yeah, we will consider it a great challenge!\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed I had said Owlcat was masochistic \u2014 for taking on the challenge of making Warhammer 40,000 games and a The Expanse<\/a> game (we\u2019ve got an exclusive reveal on The Expanse right here<\/a>), as part of a wide-ranging interview in which we discuss Owlcat’s enormous growth over the last decade<\/a>. The Warhammer 40,000 and The Expanse universes each has a hardcore fanbase that puts any adaptation under intense scrutiny, but Owlcat is very much up for meeting player expectations, which is why Baldur\u2019s Gate 4 might be a great fit.<\/p>\n

It’s worth noting that Mishulin is not confirming anything here, but understands what taking on Baldur’s Gate 4 would involve, and the challenge Owlcat would face were matching the standards set by its predecessor. But, he suggests, that\u2019s fine, because any developer simply trying to replicate a Larian game would be doomed to fail.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn my opinion, Larian has made their own vision of how a sequel to Baldurs’s Gate should be, and they presented it to us. Any other studio that will be doing BG4 will be doing their own game in the Baldurs’ Gate setting,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt will not be Larian’s BG3, because BG3 is very Larian formula, with all their ideas for combat and how they mix with Dungeons & Dragons, with their idea of the co-op experience and how it plays into the Dungeons & Dragons experience. So any studio that would be trying to replicate that is bound to fail. It\u2019s just not the way it works. Larian were making such games for 20 years, 30 years right now, starting from the first Divinity. It’s their view of the games, it’s their view of RPGs, and it’s a great game.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut other studios will do something differently. They will have their own DNA, their own ideas, and they will pour them into Baldur\u2019s Gate 4, and it will be something else. I hope that there will be a studio brave enough and passionate enough and skillful enough to do that game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Owlcat?<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you!\u201d Mishulin replied, with a smile.<\/p>\n

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Hasbro, which owns Dungeons & Dragons operator Wizards of the Coast, has insisted it intends to make Baldur’s Gate 4<\/u><\/a> eventually. But it turns out developers are actually turning the project down<\/a>.<\/p>\n

PC Gamer<\/u><\/a> recently spoke with James Ohlen, co-lead designer of Baldur\u2019s Gate 2 and former boss of Hasbro-owned Exodus developer Archetype Entertainment<\/u><\/a>, and he revealed that Hasbro had asked him to make Baldur\u2019s Gate 4, but he said no. Ohlen told Hasbro boss Chris Cox, who had called him to ask about making Baldur\u2019s Gate 4 as soon as he found out Larian wouldn’t, that he \u201cwould fail.\u201d Why? Because he didn\u2019t think he could compete against Baldur\u2019s Gate 3. \u201cThat would be insanity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Larian, which had years of experience making role-playing games with its own engine via the well-received and successful Divinity: Original Sin games before starting work on Baldur’s Gate 3, put the game into Steam early access for years before its full launch in 2023. That long-running process and the invaluable feedback that came from it helped shape the game. But on top of that, the developers at Larian are just amazing at what they do, their writers are the best in the business, their quest designers the envy of the video game industry. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is a masterpiece but it is also truly unique, with more content than any single player could ever hope to see. Most developers are not in the position to make a game like Baldur\u2019s Gate 3. None, other than perhaps Rockstar, has the time, resources, or the freedom to make the sort of creative decisions that went into Baldur’s Gate 3. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is a single-player role-playing game that could last you forever, and truly, there are none in the modern era quite like it.<\/p>\n

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How do you follow Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, then? Ohlen, clearly, couldn\u2019t see a path forward. He said he\u2019d need to start from scratch, because Larian has walked away from Dungeons & Dragons and taken its engine with it. So, he\u2019d need at least half a decade to build the tech, and there\u2019s no way Larian would agree to licensing out its engine.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s Larian boss Swen Vincke to contend with. He\u2019s the CEO of the company and the majority shareholder, but he\u2019s also the director of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, which means he is free to make creative decisions \u2014 for better and for worse. Most triple-A studio CEOs do not have such freedom or control.<\/p>\n

“Swen’s always going to be the master of building those kinds of things,\u201d Ohlen said. \u201cIt’s really hard to take him off that throne, just because of everything \u2014 the tools, institutional knowledge, team.”<\/p>\n

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Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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