We don't know which developer will have the honour of continuing the now-venerable series. There are few studios even capable of producing a great CRPG, much less of such scale and complexity. This scribe has long believed that Owlcat Games (Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous) is probably the best placed, but even then, that would be asking quite a lot.
Consider that devout fans of the legendary first two entries in the Baldur's Gate series, which BioWare developed at the height of its roleplaying powers, had long hoped that Larian would be chosen to revive the series, and even then, there were plenty of doubters.
Speaking to IGN at GDC, Hasbro's SVP of digital games, Dan Ayoub, stated the obvious: " A lot of people are very interested in Baldur's Gate." Expanding on this, Ayoub says, "We're kind of working out our plans for the future" and, more definitively, "In pretty short order, we're going to have some stuff to talk about around that."
Doing Bhaal's glorious work, IGN continued to push on the subject of a sequel, and we were rewarded with the following: "It's somewhat of an unenviable position. I mean, we're not in a hurry. Right? That's the thing: we're going to take a very measured approach... We've got a lot of plans and a lot of different ways to go about it... We've seen the team push some interesting ideas, saying, 'Okay, we need to raise our bar. We need to go bigger on this.' So, I think that's our hope. We would keep raising the bar, and everyone would try to go a little higher."
What do you think? Is there a studio poised to take up the mantle of the Baldur's Gate series that you'd like to see? Let us know why it should be Owlcat or not done at all in the comments section below.
