Baldur's Gate 3 will have an in-game newspaper that will react to your choices—but you can also break into the office and control the press
There were a lot of things in Larian's final "Panel From Hell" preview of Baldur's Gate 3 that have me more excited than ever for the upcoming RPG, but the top spot may very well go to the funny papers: Baldur's Gate 3 will have an in-game newspaper, «Baldur's Mouth,» that will change based on the decisions you make.
I don't know what else to say but that this is a rad as hell idea. It's such a small, strange detail to put development effort into, but I think a good videogame paper can really ground a fictional world. I loved the broadsheet "The Black Horse Courier" from The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion—that one had special issues that would appear in the world on completion of certain quests.
The Deus Ex series has similarly had papers and news terminals that change as you progress through the game. More recently, Tears of the Kingdom's Lucky Clover Gazette quest was a very fun spin on the idea.
Baldur's Gate 3 is promising something altogether more involved though. «We've got a newspaper system in this city—it's gonna react to your actions, it's gonna talk about stuff that you've been doing,» explained Larian creative director Swen Vincke.
«What I really like about the newspaper is that you can manipulate it. You can basically break into the printing house and start swapping stories around.
»There'll be a big surprise when you do that, and the game's gonna react to that. The stuff in the newspaper affects what the citizens of the city are gonna think about you."
Whereas The Black Horse Courier or Deus Ex's papers would just provide a neat reflection of side quest completion or main story progress, Baldur's Mouth seems more like a full-on, highly reactive system. That quest Vincke described sounds delicious, and the
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