Change the Future

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I've been reading all the posts and thinking about all the different ideas that people have brought to all the Baldur's Gate 3 Forums. It's very difficult to make all of us happy, and the company that finally makes the game will be as loved as hated.

We only "officialy" know that their intention is to make a prequel. Everybody has his owns ideas of what the history would have to be and the only think that we are almost agree is... What the hell are they gona do with a prequel? Every single NPC that we haved come to know, loved or hated in the 2 games of the series... where they will be? How will they fix the feeling of the game just to make us think taht we are indeed playing a Baldur's Gate game?

Think about this, it's a prequel..... when you start the game you must create a new character, and YOU CAN LOAD YOUR SAVED GAME FROM BALDUR'S GATE 2. Yes, load it but you play with the new character. The saved game is the future of Faerum. The game now knows how will be the character and his party of heroes that in the future will defeat Sarebok and Irenicus. The things he will do, with who did he did them... the class he was, etc... Imagine to play a game with a new character in the past trying to change the future that you did when you played Baldur's 1 & 2!

What do youi think?

P.D. Sorry for my English

 

To be perfectly honest, that has to be the coolest idea I've heard so far about BG3.

Unfortunately, I doubt the company will care much about the Baldur's Gate legacy, as I'm assuming this game is BG3 in name only, much like Fallout 3 is turning out. And if BG3 indeed is going to console, as I suspect it might, that idea won't be feasible.

 

This assumes that every player has played the previous BG games and I don't think their marketing people will find the idea too feasible, also what would be the point in trying to change the future? Ideally, at the end of the last BG game, you either ascended to Godhood or retired from adventuring practically God-like.

 

None can stand in my way! For I have the almighty power of reloads!

 

Well, you don't HAVE to load a previous save game, you can play as you would like to if you want.

 

The fact remains that there wouldn't be much sense in trying to change the future because, as I said, at the end of the last BG game/expansion you either ascended into Godhood or retired practically God-like. Somebody posted a similar story to this one a few months back. IIRC that person's story said that for some reason, there was going to be a threat to your existence while you were younger (or not even born yet) and that while in Irenicus' dungeon you'd go into a portal into the past to make sure this didn't happen therefore ensuring the future as we/you know it. This is no less complicated than the proposed plot here but imo there's more sense to it.

 

kind of like terminator meets BG3

 

Except that it's John Connor that goes back, I guess that's it in a nutshell

 

The idea of a prequel RPG is rather stupid. You can end up affecting the main storyline in a way that you shouldn't be able to. The developers will have to prevent the player from directly interacting with the main characters of Baldur's Gate I and II, otherwise there will be inconsistencies. I could take Gorion as an NPC, what if he dies? Game over?

I'll say it again, they should leave the Bhaal saga alone. We don't need to know the history. Make it about Baldur's Gate but don't mention the Bhaal saga at all. WotC don't consider Baldur's Gate I and II to have actually happened in the Forgotten Realms.