Baldur’s Gate 3 comes 25 years after the first opus, 23 years after the last episode in date and that this old-fashioned role-playing game in the universe of Dungeons and Dragons, the ancestor of the medieval fantasy role-playing game, attacks a species that has no longer used. But the small Belgian studio Larian has managed, with mad ambition, to bring to life an epic fresco, a story with multiple branchings, colorful characters that benefit from dozens of hours of dialogue and cutscenes.
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A miracle for this totally independent studio that has taken enormous financial risks: at the end of 6 years of development, 450 people are employed in 6 countries, which allows the work to continue around the clock. A gigantic job, sometimes abruptly interrupted: by the The pandemic and especially the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as explained, forced the studio to urgently evacuate its studio in Saint Petersburg In the silence we playLiberation podcast, Swen Vincke, the boss of Larian.
“We relocated almost everyone who was in the studio. The Russian teams, but we had a lot too [personnes] Ukrainians in our team; People who took risks to escape back then,” says Swen Vincke. “They are all young on our team, so they all had to go into the army. That’s why it was important to go. »
Baldur’s Gate 3 promises to be one of the biggest hits of the year. But I bet it will be difficult to reproduce.
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