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A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 4 weeks ago

Can we just not do this?

One, not every thing needs to be a whole franchise universe.

Two, the game had a lot of decisions players could make. Collapsing that into a single canon is going to be unsatisfying. It was annoying enough that bg3 made some big decisions about choices from bg2.

Related, if they ever make another game in the franchise this show will probably be canon, so it's not entirely ignorable.

Three, it's not even that interesting a setting. It's pretty Standard Fantasy.

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

We don't get many high budget fantasy shows. I'm all for it. Larian is already moving away from bg anyways, I think wizards of the coast upped their licensing price by quite a bit.

[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 weeks ago

Because HBO has a good track record for fantasy shows?

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

HBO has a good track record period. I'm guessing you mean GoT but that series is a gem until the last season. Even in the last season, the zombie fight lasted a whole episode and a half and was peak tv. House of the dragon was pretty good as well.

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

We've had a pretty good hit rate with video game adaptations lately. Fallout and Arcane are both among my favorite TV shows. I think we finally got far enough along that show runners are gamers themselves and aware of what makes these things good and what needs to change to be a good show.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 0 points 4 weeks ago

I kind of refuse to watch Fallout. Partly because I read they fucked up the NCR. But also Amazon sucks , and Bethesda is kind of creatively bankrupt.

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago

To each their own, but I thought they completely nailed the tone, respectfully incorporated the established fiction, and even wrote some great new characters.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 0 points 4 weeks ago

What made new Vegas interesting was that it's not just another kitschy wasteland romp. It's post-post-apocalypse, and it asks who rebuilds after.

My limited understanding is the TV show nuked the NCR so they could do more wasteland theme park, and not continue that train of thought. But also didn't just set it somewhere else.

But admittedly I haven't actually watched it.

But also, again, trying to make a TV show intersect with a video game with multiple endings is a foolish idea. You won't make everyone happy, and it's an entirely avoidable problem. They could've just set the show in a different part of the world that hasn't had a game.

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Video games sequeling other choice-based video games run into the same issue, and you quickly forget once you're in it that maybe you treated Shady Sands differently than the canonized decision about it. As it takes place further in the future than any of the games, it acknowledges what happened in their past, creates new events that happened since we last saw them, and also steers them in new directions, because people change, and the old leaders would have long since been replaced by new ones. That's all just part of continuing a story. The only way to avoid having to pick a canon is to never continue it ever, but I'm happy we got this show at all.

[-] iamthetot@piefed.ca 0 points 4 weeks ago

You know you don't have to watch it.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 4 weeks ago

Related, if they ever make another game in the franchise this show will probably be canon, so it’s not entirely ignorable.

Technically I don't have to watch it. I don't have to play any more games in the franchise either. But if I do want to play more games in the franchise, I'll probably have to deal with the show.

[-] iamthetot@piefed.ca 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

That's such an exaggeration. Do you know how many people played BG3 without ever even knowing 1 or 2 existed, let alone played them?

Or hell, how many people played Witcher 3 without ever reading the books or playing the first two games.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah but they'll mess with the canon and then we'll all have to deal with it.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 0 points 4 weeks ago

wait. bg3 is influenced by the bg2 story?

[-] IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago

Somewhat. It's story is mostly independent, but it does take place after 2 and therefore has canonized several of the decisions you could make in 2, as well as a few returning characters.

[-] mcforest@feddit.org -1 points 4 weeks ago

One, not every thing needs to be a whole franchise universe.

Bruh, DnD already is one.

[-] zikzak025@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I think it's a mistake to ride the coattails of Baldur's Gate 3.

Don't get me wrong, I think more Forgotten Realms stories could make for good TV. The Honor Among Thieves movie from a few years ago was fantastic, and there was supposed to be a live action TV series in the works after that.

But I just don't see why they'd give up on making one D&D TV series, only to start a brand new one with more baggage. Instead of telling an original story, they're tied down to a story continuity that is inevitably going to leave a lot of fans disappointed regardless of the direction they take.

[-] justdaveisfine@piefed.social 2 points 4 weeks ago

I'm uncertain on this as its being made without Larian and likely has more involvement from Hasbro, now that the latter is realizing BG has turned out to be a golden goose despite their attempts to wring it for cash.

[-] leave_it_blank@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

While we are at it, I would really love to see a new adventure of the Honour Among Thieves Party. I loved that movie, please give us more!

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Chris Pine is expensive now.

[-] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago

He was pretty expensive then too. He'd already done the Star Treks.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 4 weeks ago

oh no

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I think we can all agree that the best option for this story-wise is a rom-com centered around Karlach in an alternate reality where her infernal engine makes her get into all kinds of shenanigans while on a quest for true love (spoiler: there was love in Avernus all along!).

[-] Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 4 weeks ago

I really hope its focusing on a character from a hard place (maybe Menzoberanzan). It could be a warrior male from a high family, but who doesnt fit into the culture. As we follow this character on adventures, he picks up magical weapons (scimitars are cool), and maybe some sort of animal companion?

[-] khornechips@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

I haven’t read the books… (shame, I know) but is this just describing Drizzt?

[-] Blo0dixte4rz@hilariouschaos.com -1 points 4 weeks ago

I missed those series dearly… My father and I used to pay it day and day out, we always wondered if they would make an actual budget movie that made sense and went along with the timelines… For some reason, Hollywood thinks that a fantasy movie that comes from DND has to be some “b” movie. considering how many people enjoy this type of thing you would think that it would be more poignant to make it big. just because it gets big, doesn’t mean that it has to be pushed into the category of mainstream. I don’t think… I would just really like to see a movie that actually does it justice. some of these fantasy series are just as big as something like Lord of the rings, but never got the recognition for it. so us (more nerdy folks ) have to just deal with this low budget of shit. 

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