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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9323451" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>That's impossible to do, it's a fool's errand. CRPGs don't need to chase the "latest and greatest" either. BG3 is proof of that - it's basically Dragon Age but with turn-based combat and D&D rules, so following a template laid down in 2010.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Indeed - Larians's next game may well be out, because it seems like it will be much smaller in scope. I don't know how many "post-BG3 CRPGs" we'll actually see though. It would take a serious appetite for risk to provide the budget necessary to make a CRPG on a similar scale to BG3, and I'm not sure any major publisher will actually have the desire to do that, and other companies just don't have the resources.</p><p></p><p>There are major RPGs in development that will release before then, but none seem to be CRPGs. Witcher 4 is sounds like "Witcher but with chargen" so a single-character 3rd-person action-oriented RPG. The Elder Scrolls 6 might be out (if we're lucky), and we all know it'll be Skyrim II: This time in a desert. Dragon Age: Dreadwolf will 3rd-person action-oriented though seemingly with a party. There may well be some kind of Elden Ring II (3rd person Soulslike). The Outer Worlds 2 (first-person Scrollslike). Owlcat will no doubt drop a couple of turn-based tabletop adaptions with none of the production values of BG3. WotC's own Exodus will be out (3rd-person Masseffectlike, seemingly).</p><p></p><p>I could go on, but I don't really see any AAA companies queuing up to make CRPGs, and even if they did, most of the teams who could do it will still be working on their current games for 2-4 years (or more!).</p><p></p><p></p><p>Definitely the fastest, probably the worst too. This has been done a few times in gaming history, and it pretty much universally ends in tears.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9323451, member: 18"] That's impossible to do, it's a fool's errand. CRPGs don't need to chase the "latest and greatest" either. BG3 is proof of that - it's basically Dragon Age but with turn-based combat and D&D rules, so following a template laid down in 2010. Indeed - Larians's next game may well be out, because it seems like it will be much smaller in scope. I don't know how many "post-BG3 CRPGs" we'll actually see though. It would take a serious appetite for risk to provide the budget necessary to make a CRPG on a similar scale to BG3, and I'm not sure any major publisher will actually have the desire to do that, and other companies just don't have the resources. There are major RPGs in development that will release before then, but none seem to be CRPGs. Witcher 4 is sounds like "Witcher but with chargen" so a single-character 3rd-person action-oriented RPG. The Elder Scrolls 6 might be out (if we're lucky), and we all know it'll be Skyrim II: This time in a desert. Dragon Age: Dreadwolf will 3rd-person action-oriented though seemingly with a party. There may well be some kind of Elden Ring II (3rd person Soulslike). The Outer Worlds 2 (first-person Scrollslike). Owlcat will no doubt drop a couple of turn-based tabletop adaptions with none of the production values of BG3. WotC's own Exodus will be out (3rd-person Masseffectlike, seemingly). I could go on, but I don't really see any AAA companies queuing up to make CRPGs, and even if they did, most of the teams who could do it will still be working on their current games for 2-4 years (or more!). Definitely the fastest, probably the worst too. This has been done a few times in gaming history, and it pretty much universally ends in tears. [/QUOTE]
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