Baldur's Gate III Devs Open Up About Stadia Exclusivity, Suggest Game Wouldn't Run On PS4/Xbox One

The game doesn’t even look good. Unimpressed by the graphics and the turn based combat looks extremely dull. When the game sells like crap on Stadia, they’ll come crawling back to Sony and Microsoft.

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Really hate it when developers/publishers straight up lie to us.

It won't run on current consoles.

Have you tried to run it on current consoles?

No.

So does that mean only people with brand new $500 GPU's can run this on PC because apparently there won't be any scaling to older hardware?

Shut up.

I am sure they will adapt and publish it on the new consols as they did with the divinity series, but it will properly not be before next year

The presentation was messy to say the least. Some people can take that as a honest to hearth presentation, others can look at it as something negative, etc.. In the end, it showed new concepts that revolves around the divinity system (which was based on baldurs gate and other similar crpgs, so it's not a sin or anything... basically divinity 3 with a DnD skin). But this talk about textures and technical aspects was a complete bullshit, the game looks like dragon age inquisition at best lol even the switch can theoretically run this, c'mon now. The supposed image of honesty was completely shattered, just say the game is a exclusive, the engine/interfaces are tailored best for PC and move on. Divinity was just like that, later they released console ports that barely works (regarding the interface). This statement kinda pissed me off tbh, I love Larian, but this is bullshit (and I don't even have a console, just to let that clear)

I get everybody wants to be up in arms about somebody saying their favorite system couldn't run this game, but really, if Google hadn't paid to get a Stadia version, BG3 would probably be launching on PC only and nobody would be batting an eye.

A console port will probably come later, same as the DOS, BG, and PoE games, and later (at this point) probably seems next generation.

Yeah, right. So I assume there will be no graphics settings for the PC version? Only those with a modern gaming PC will be able to play it?

I'm gonna wait until we get a next gen console version.

Yea, this sounds like Google money talking. The Series X and PS5 are going to be more than capable of running what I watched yesterday. To be honest, the game play demo really looked like a DnD skinned Divinity Original Sin 2. Not that that is a bad thing, DOS2 is an excellent game, but it already runs surprisingly well on current gen consoles and BG3 doesn't look radically different.

Who cares? These consoles are dead already, they'll port it to new consoles. PC is the best and biggest gaming platform anyway.

That's like saying, I really want to use another knife to cut my steak. But I just don't think any other knife, except a steak knife would work. The PC is the steak knife. And the steak is the video game. You can cut a steak with a butter knife, if it's something you really wanted to accomplish. Or a knife maker pays the cook enough money, to use their knives exclusively. I wonder which one it is.

He concedes that it might work if they tweaked the textures, but "It wouldn't look as cool anymore."

It doesn't look THAT amazing, set the thing to medium. I mean, I have little to no interest in the game but he's talking out his ass when he says it's impossible, he admits as much himself right there.

But hey, it's their game and their profit margin. I wonder how much Google paid them to throw away half of their customerbase... that'll surely have no long term consequences /s.

Lot of Arm Chair Developers i see.

It's mostly very similar looking to Divinity with a few upgrades and the close ups for conversation, but there is nothing in the footage I've watched to suggest it wouldn't run and look fine on current machines. This is pure Google sponsored PR...which is a shame coming from Larian. I thought they had more integrity.

Considering this game launches well after the XSX and PS5 have entered the market, I'm going to have to call bullshit. But you know what, that's okay. You made the decision to publish your game exclusively on a platform that was effectively Dead or Arrival, so making smart decisions obviously isn't in your wheelhouse anyway.

And if you're interested in Digital Streaming to enhance your games specs, than it seems kind of silly that you would invest in Stadia and not the far superior xCloud Microsoft service.

Lying is not a good look.

"Also Google gave us a ton of money!"

I mean, the game will be out in a few years, long after the current gen consoles are dead. No real reason past that.

Hahaha what a crock! If Red Dead 2 can run on current-gen consoles, every other game can. Larian somehow thinks we are all a bunch of half-wits. They can keep their game.