The Gold Box D&D games tried to replicate the experience of playing a tabletop RPG, with mixed success. I view modern computer RPGs as descending from a series of primordial games. As such, when Wizards of the Coast were looking for a new studio to carry on the legacy of the Baldur’s Gate games, they quite naturally turned to Larian Studios, a company that has been carrying on the tradition started by the Baldur’s Gate games for years with Divinity: Original Sin.īaldur’s Gate is in the bones of modern gaming Unlike Diablo, which Blizzard owns, Baldur’s Gate is part of the world of Faerun, the campaign setting for the Forgotten Realms created by Ed Greenwood and used as part of D&D since the late 1980’s. Nowadays, with Bioware busy doing Anthem and maybe Dragon Age 4 - we can hope, anyway - the license to make games based on Dungeons and Dragons has long since been passed on to other game studios. If we think of the Ultima series as sort of the grandfather of all western CRPG’s, and the old D&D Gold Box games as the wellspring from which they all descend, then two series created the modern landscape of role playing games as video games - Blizzard’s Diablo series, and Bioware’s Baldur’s Gate. ![]() As a game series, Baldur’s Gate has basically been the standard bearer for a certain kind of Role Playing Game for over 20 years now. ![]() If you don’t know the Baldur’s Gate series, you may be wondering why Baldur’s Gate 3 has generated so much buzz online.
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