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Baldur's Gate 3 leads defend the claim that the D&D RPG has 17,000 endings: "Some of them are subtle"

There's more permutations than you think at work here

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Larian wanted Paladin as BG3’s default class, but Lae’zel happened

Larian Studios considered making Paladin the default Baldur’s Gate 3 class, but ran into a few snags with player choice and Lae'zel

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Baldur's Gate 3's most popular class was originally going to be its default one, but Lae'zel kind of ruined it

There were plenty of "narrative problems" to contend with

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Larian CEO says Baldur's Gate 3's Dark Urge character was originally going to be a Paladin by default, which makes me even happier I played it that way

"But then we started thinking about it and said, actually that's bringing in a lot of narrative problems."

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'She was so very well-defined from the get-go': Baldur's Gate 3's Gith darling Lae'zel changed the least during its development

'chk. Istik! I am already defined, as all Gith are trained to be.

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Baldur's Gate 3 leads shut down popular community theory that the RPG's most mysterious characters was originally a totally different character

The Emperor's big twist was always the plan

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A villain in Baldur's Gate 3 was originally guaranteed to kidnap whoever you romanced, 'which wasn't very popular'

Spoilers for act three.

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Baldur's Gate 3 is never coming to Game Pass, Larian CEO says "there's a fair price to be paid" for "a big game" like this

"This is what allows us to continue making other games," says Swen Vincke

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Larian confirms Baldur's Gate 3 isn't coming to Xbox Game Pass: "We made a big game, so I think there's a fair price to be paid for that, and I think that that is okay"

Xbox fans shouldn't expect to be able to play Baldur's Gate 3 on Game Pass, says Larian's CEO.

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Larian will "continue to support" Baldur's Gate 3 into 2024 while "working on other things"

The RPG still has life left in it

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Baldur’s Gate 3 director explains why the RPG was never going to be on Xbox Game Pass

Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke has revealed that "from the get-go," the RPG was never going to be on Xbox Game Pass.

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Baldur's Gate 3 will never be on Game Pass, says Larian CEO: 'We made a big game, so I think there's a fair price to be paid for that'

Making people pay upfront allows the studio to "continue making other games".

PC Gamer

Baldur's Gate 3 director shares GOTY acceptance speech he wanted to give at The Game Awards, but couldn't: "Whereto and how we journey are what matter and what we remember"

A week after being cut off at The Game Awards, the director of GOTY Baldur's Gate 3 has posted his full speech.

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Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke shares uncut GOTY speech and addresses Wizards of the Coast layoffs

Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke has shared his full speech for winning Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2023.

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'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs

Suffering and success.

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Baldur's Gate 3 director shares his full GOTY speech, paying tribute to QA and departing D&D staff

Swen Vincke shouted out "people that don’t always get the credit they deserve"

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I've never wanted anything more than for Larian to make a Star Wars RPG in the vein of Baldur's Gate 3

It's already made the best D&D videogame, so why not adapt the Star Wars TTRPG?

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Baldur's Gate 3 director meant to announce the Xbox version at The Game Awards, but completely forgot

Swen Vincke paid tribute to a Baldur's Gate 3 dev who passed away

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'Baldur's Gate 3' Crowned Game Of The Year

Role-playing hit "Baldur's Gate 3", based in the world of Dungeons and Dragons, was named video game of the year at an awards ceremony in Los Angeles late Thursday.

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Swen Vincke accepts The Game Awards GOTY for Baldur's Gate 3 in plate armor: "I didn't expect it"

The Larian Studios founder looked positively regal

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'I didn't think we were gonna get it': Baldur's Gate 3 dominates The Game Awards with 6 wins, including GOTY

The team behind Baldur's Gate 3 came and conquered at The Game Awards.

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Baldur's Gate 3 devs keep the patch 5 hype going by teasing "labors of love and some surprises" left in store: "Finally, we did this"

Patch 5 is still slated to launch this week

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Larian says the Baldur's Gate 3 Deluxe Edition won't sell out, so don't pay scalpers

Swen Vincke assures the Deluxe Edition has ample stock

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Baldur's Gate 3 boss thought Alan Wake 2 or Tears of the Kingdom would win GOTY, not Larian's "hardcore RPG"

But Baldur's Gate 3 swept through the Golden Joysticks Awards anyway

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Baldur's Gate 3's Karlach actor has been getting into her "ride or die" romance with Minthara, confirms "bad Karlach" is totally canon

Swen Vincke shed a little light on Karlach's backstory

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