The creator of Fallout spoke about the Baldur’s Gate 3: first-person RPG with PVPVE elements that was failed 20 years ago

Tim Kane, one of the creators of the original Fallout and co -founder of the Troika cult studio, released a video in which he talked about how in 2003 Troika offered Wizards of the Coast Baldur’s Gate 3 project. This version sounds like an even more wild deviation from the series than the long -awaited continuation from Larian.

Kane discovered a document with a proposal in his personal collection of files related to the development of The Temple of Elemental Evil, the adaptation of the table module of the Gary Gaigex, made by three in 2003. "Creating a computer game, we tried to make it as similar as possible to paper and pencil – we did it, the job was done", – Kane said about Toee. "Now I wanted to do what I called "adapted d&D".

Kane describes the proposed Baldur’s Gate 3 as a role -playing game in the first person with a third -person view, similar to the games of Jedi Knight or his own game Vampire: The Masqueate – Bloodlines. In general, it looks like a real tactile game that immerses the atmosphere, much more similar to Outer Worlds than Infinity Engine.

In an adapted triple system D&D would be completely removed intelligence and wisdom, and you could not directly set your attributes, instead they would have been generated on the basis of the starting race and class and would automatically improve with the level of level. Instead of memorizing spells for a day, all advanced abilities, physical or magical, should use the counter "fatigue", reminiscent of Diablo mana glasses or a force meter in Knights of the Old Republic.

BG3 proposed eight classes: bard, cleric, druid, fighter, magician, monk, ranger and robber. Kane explained that the paladins were excluded because Troika wanted all the characters to begin from a truly neutral level, and their choice determined their future fate, like Planescape: Torment.

In Baldur’s Gate 3, the skills and perks are almost similar to Fallout: skills included any active abilities, including owning weapons, and the perks would give purely passive bonuses, like perki in Fallout. Only one character could be directly controlled, but Kane described the possibility of selecting helping companions, possibly, depending on the testimony of charisma.

According to Kane, a strong multi-user element was supposed to have a strong multiplayer element in Baldur’s Gate 3, including direct PVP-areans, a cooperative and, it seems, a very early version of the PVPVE mode, in which the players should have performed quests as soon as possible. Troika also wanted to provide Baldur’s Gate 3 tools for designing levels that allow you to create user PVPVE quests or even full-fledged story campaigns in the spirit of Neverwinter Nights.

"I’m not sure that we generally received the answer to this question", – Kane in the video directly stated.

Apparently, the three first of all wanted to continue cooperation with Wizards of the Coast in the form of a more direct continuation of Temple, possibly in the form of expansion packages or full -fledged sequels. Kane says that he wanted to adapt other Greyhawk modules, such as Against the Giants or Queen of the Demonweb Pits, and BG3 was a spare option. Ultimately, after the release of TOEE Wizards did not support a single new Troika project.

After exhausting and painstaking work over Vampire: The Masquarade – Bloodlines, and at the beginning of 2005 the studio closed, leaving fans of role -playing games to dream of their non -implemented projects, such as Journey to the Centre of Arcanum, The Lord of the Rings, Fallout 3, and now also Baldur’s Gate 3.

This was not the only version of Baldur’s Gate 3, which was cut before Larian took the torch in her hands. Former Kane employer, InterPlay (through its Black Isle division, which is developing role -playing games), was under the development of its own Baldur’s Gate 3 under the code name "The Black Hound". The events of the game should have occurred in the valley lands in the forgotten kingdoms, and it would have very little in common with the plot of two original games. Interestingly, The Black Hound was conceived as an adventure with lower rates, with an eight -level bar in the style of Baldur’s Gate 1, which is sharply contrasting with high 30 levels of Baldur’s Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal.

It is interesting that all potential third parts of Baldur’s Gate are so much different from the originals, but this is quite logical, because Throne of Bhaal was such an enchanting and final conclusion. At least Baldur’s Gate 3 from Larian looks amazing, and the spirit of Troika is more than significantly present in it. In addition to the fact that Baldur’s Gate 3 is generally a very reactive game, Larian seems to have borrowed from Arcanum: of SteamWorks and Magic Obscura a magnificent newspaper system and brought it to a new level.