Most Impressive!
I think a contrarian vote for something other than BG3 at the BAFTAs would have been kinda hard to explain. Especially given how totally British the game felt to me hehe. I mean BG1 & 2 were pretty North American to my ears, like I know where the Strange got Brewed on that first out, but then BG3 definitely felt like it had the Croydon in it's DNA. I mean other than Ketheric bringing some Midwest to the table in Act II, BG3 was sorta like the Masterpiece Theater take on a BG game, with the mirror reflecting back across the Atlantic. So gotta take that win on that one! hehe. Much as I have an abiding love for Jaheira, I was also happy to see the Devil get his due, and for the score to Score!
It does frustrate me a bit though, that there's no sequel in the offing. I had rather hoped someone would pull off what Bioware failed to achieve with BG2, or what Obsidian failed to achieve with NWN2 - Namely a sequel where the choices the Player Character made in the first game actually mattered to the sequel.
Basically that whole idea of import character, or import savegame, which BG1 teased for BG2, or BG2 teased for NWN. Or just that idea of a backwards compatible D&D game engine or campaign series. Somehow that idea keeps getting missed, and for the spiritual successors same deal. That was a big part of the initial appeal of the original Baldur's Gate game for me, that Charname wouldn't be just a one off, but we all know that's not really how BG2 came together. I really wanted BG4, not just for my oddball sense of symmetry with BG1 and BG2, but that maybe a BG4 could finally pull that off too. So not just that the choices made in Act I might matter in Act III, but also for Act I of the sequel.
It's possible that BG4 might yet happen with another developer at the Helm, but it will probably feel like a Kotor 2 or NWN 2 type situation, where the momentum picked up by the previous entry doesn't quite translate, and the iron has to be re-heated again before striking. Not quite the same, as the same studio that just pulled off reforging whatever Quintuple crown. I don't know, just one of those things I suppose. After seeing so many golden statues I can't help but ask... how much longer before they fix the hair clipping through all the Elf ears? Or giving us even a single gravel-y voice for the Dwarves? Also where's my party of 6 with Alfira in tow? Free the cameras, put some pitch on it? Much has been made of Early Access, but all those were requested within the first weeks of 2020. Now that there is no BG4, there's nowhere left to kick those cans!
On the upside this finally came in the mail!
Oh Circle of Love! Round and round we go!
again lol