I bought Baldur's Gate 3 the day it hit early access. Obviously, I wanted to play the game. I feel like that would be cool. But I also just wanted it to be real in general. When I saw that they'd brought Jaheira back, I was catapulted into a zone of white-hot, near infinite pleasure. If you're doing Baldur's Gate, sure - you do Minsc and Boo for the memes. In the US, it's legally required for Dungeons & Dragons projects to incorporate at least one space hamster. I don't know how it works en Belgique. But you don't get all the way back to Jaheira, don't let us know how she's doing now, unless you give a fuck.
I trusted Larian to do it because, in a way, they already had. Divinity: Original Sin 2 is a lot of different things, having been born in crowdfunding and actually delivering on it, but the lineage is quite clear if you have eyes and these eyes are pointed at a monitor attached to a computer running Divinity: Original Sin 2.
Final Fantasy's legacy is about becoming less and less like the games that spawned it. No moral judgment, here; a lot of people missed out on some era defining visuals and storytelling because they thought "final fantasy wasn't for them" even though it mostly involves choosing things from menus, like at Burger King. Looking back, there's a case to be made that the Baldur's Gate games are for perverts only, with their pause and play real-time/turn-based hybrid and their million discs. Somehow, Larian found every one of them and got them to buy it. Then, they put that shit on Switch, and had synchronized saves from other platforms? Oh, and it's all multiplayer? These fucking dorks.
They haven't retreated at all from a wizened and ancient ethos. In fact, by the time these demons are done with you, you're going to be better at the fucking tabletop version because BG3 is going to expose you to the basic actions that were always there waiting for you. I can't wait to install it tomorrow. I'm gonna start uninstalling shit so there's even fucking room.
(CW)TB out.
