Baldur’s Gate 3’s director reveals the secret to making a great RPG

The success of Baldur’s Gate 3 caught by surprise even the studio itself, Larian Studios, but at the same time, they are perfectly aware of the path that has taken them to achieve it. Swen Vincke, director of the game, has made it clear that in short, it is about taking into account all the options that the players are capable of envisaging when carrying out their adventure.

Why is Baldur’s Gate 3 so good?

Vincke confesses that, although there are employees within the Belgian studio in charge of tracking the options and paths chosen by the player, he himself does not pay attention to them. “I actually don’t look at it,” Vincke confessed in the official Dungeons & Dragons channel during an interview with Todd Kenreck. “We have people who look at it, but I try to not do it because otherwise it can influence the creative decisions, and I want to make sure that we keep on investing heavily in things that maybe 0.001% of the audience will see”.

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“It is important that any journey that you take in your game is going to be equally rewarding,” Vincke continues to explain. “And if you would say ‘oh, 80% of the players go there and they see that’, then what’s going to happen is you’re going to put all of your effort on the 80% experience, and you’re going to do less on the 20%. And that’s not what you should do when you make a game like this, at least in my opinion. So I try not to be guided too much by it, but obviously I pick things up like ‘this class is more popular than that, people are making that choice more than that.’ But we don’t let it guide the game development”.

The result is obvious, with enormous sales and critical success, with spectacular notes in its review scores for its two available versions so far, PC and PlayStation 5. It is expected that when it arrives this year to Xbox Series X|S, the reception is equally fantastic.