Baldur’s Gate 3 Shows Off Gloriously Seamless Titular City
At Summer Game Fest 2023's PC Gaming Show, Larian Studios took the virtual stage to show off Baldur's Gate 3. More specifically, they demonstrated the titular city, which has been upgraded to be fully seamless between its districts. A few key developers commented on this shift made during development.
Farhang Namdar (World Building Director): The city of Baldur's Gate is seamless, which it originally wasn't going to be.
Joachim Vleminckx (Art Director): You only can judge the game when you have all the components together and if the mix doesn't work we start over.
Farhang Namdar: At some point, CEO Swen Vincke said 'Can't we just connect everything?' and that was a very interesting day.
Chrystal Ding (Associate Writing Lead): One of the things that that's done is it's brought a level of believability and immersion and also complexity that wouldn't have been there otherwise.
Farhang Namdar: Now it was this seamless giant organism and it really, really felt good.
Adam Smith (Lead Writer): Now you're able to look out of a window and see down the city slopes. You're seeing down toward the docks and you're like, one of my teammates might be down there.
Chrystal Ding: It feels like you are walking around a place where there are lots and lots of people living their actual lives.
Swen Vincke (CEO): You have crowds that are walking around. You can talk to pretty much anybody and they react to every single thing. It's very alive in that sense.
Lawrence Schick (Expert Writer): Every person that you meet in Baldur's Gate has got a story to them. We actually build anticipation through all these characters that you've met, through all these situations that you've been through. All the stories that you have been following
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