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The former BioWare developer David Gaider recently playedBaldur’s Gate 3and defended the game as a worthy successor toBaldur’s Gate 2. Several critics hailedBaldur’s Gate 3as one of thebest RPGs of 2023, but it’s always reassuring to see someone who participated in the development of the franchise having such a positive opinion about the title.
Baldur’s Gate 3is one of the biggest successes of 2023, despite only being available for PC at the moment. The game managed to have over 875,000 simultaneous players on Steam during the height of its launch. Considering that the title was also launched on GOG, the actual number of players may be even higher.
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Now, the former BioWare narrative designer and writer David Gaider, who is known for working on many popular games, includingBaldur’s Gate 2, gave his opinions about the new title. Gaider affirmed that Larian’s new game resurrects the feeling of playingBG2in every way and that a lot of love clearly went into creating the game. He also cited thatBaldur’s Gate 3succeeds despite having some of the characteristics that he often heard were incompatible with modern titles, such as having a silent protagonist or turn-based combat. However, Gaider did not thinkBG3was perfect. He cited quite a few bugs, the construction of the romances, and the lack of a better epilogue as some aspects of the experience that could be improved.
Gaider worked on BioWare from 1999 to 2016, being a writer for titles likeBG2,Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, andDragon Age: Origins. After leaving the company, he worked on Beamdog for two years and then co-founded Summerfall Studios, whichreleasedStray Godsrecently.Stray Godsis an urban fantasy RPG about singing and was delayed to avoid clashing with the release ofBaldur’s Gate 3.
At the moment,BG3is only available for PC, but it’ll be out for PS5 in September. Unfortunately, the development for Xbox seems somewhat troubled as the title would need gameplay feature parity on both of Microsoft’s consoles, and the Xbox Series S did not appear powerful enough for Larian Studios to offer split-screen co-op. However, Microsoft recently allowed Larian to move forward with plans to launch the game on the console without the feature to speed up its release roadmap. Hopefully, there’s still a chance thatBaldur’s Gate 3could include a split-screen mode on Xbox Series Sin the future.
Baldur’s Gate 3is out now for PC with a PS5 version releasing on September 6. An Xbox version is also in development.
