11mo ago

Swen Vincke was worried that the 100-hour Baldur's Gate 3 would be too short, which is why Larian made a ton of extra areas they wound up cutting

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Swen Vincke was worried that the 100-hour Baldur's Gate 3 would be too short, which is why Larian made a ton of extra areas they wound up cutting: 'I've notoriously always been bad at judging the length of our games'

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11mo ago

Swen Vincke was worried that the 100-hour Baldur's Gate 3 would be too short, which is why Larian made a ton of extra areas they wound up cutting...

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I would've loved to see an expansion or two for the game to tie up some storylines
- Didn't they start working on one but cncelled because they were just not feeling it?
  
  I believe they were "not feeling" continuing to work with Wizards of the Coast after WotC fired the people that were working with Larian
It ended up being too long anyway
- I think the pacing is just off once you get close to the end.
  Once you get to Baldur's Gate, the game is a slog. If I didn't want to get the golden dice just so I could say that I got them, I probably wouldn't've finished the game.
  
  A slog? Man, my experience was completely different. I was intentionally looking for more to do before I confronted the brain.
  
  100 hours is too much for a game. Let's say I can play it 1-2 hours a day 5 days a week (I usually have stuff to do on the weekend), it'd take me over two months to finish it! There are other games I want to play!
  I did finish it, but only because I had to spend over a month at home using up PTO before leaving my previous job for my current one.
- It's a freaking D&D game, not Uncharted.
  
  Seriously, a typical D&D session might last 6 hours and you accomplish nothing of note, but you have fun! Enjoyment should not be transactional with time.
- I thought it wasn't nearly long enough.

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