Why Larian Studios wanted to make Baldur's Gate 3, and how they pulled it off | BAFTA 

The way Sven talks about crunch and overtime etc is exactly how the rest of the industry should be. keep it up.

Okay, something just hit me big time, at 20:41, when Swen starts talking about mistakes, and especially mistakes that were being pointed out by early access players. His response is such a contrast with other studios, and I think it really is the single biggest explanation why Larian has the success and goodwill that it does. Their response to being told 'mistake' is light years away from the response you see with other studios, who just look at players and tell them that they're just playing the game wrong, or they just don't understand what they should be thinking. Larian's just like 'Well, we have to listen to our players; they're the whole reason we're doing this', and they're not too proud to make changes. Class act.

I love Swen's take on concept art. It's not meant to be the basis for the final end-goal, it's to explore what world and tone and environment you want to experience and not to inhibit that with: 'Well, here's the ONE concept art we did, time to start making it.' I adore Larian so much!

Larian has earned my full trust. i will be supporting all of their games.

Super excited for their next game

I attended this live, it was so well put together and engaging. Thanks so much for arranging the event and for the swift upload!

I could say that this game is a masterpiece, a work of love or all those things that have been said millions of time. But when I think of BG3 there is always one thing that comes imediatly to my mind, this is how I felt when I saw the credit. This massive emptiness and this mix sentiment of joy and sadness. This is the first time that I experienced that kind level of emotion just playing a game and I can't thank them enough for that.

I have 1400 hours of gameplay in BG3, these three people are my heros! its 35 work weeks of game play. Nothing has captured my attention since the early days of wow

Baldur's Gate III is the first videogame I've played since the original xbox!!! The two originals were my fave games of all-time back in the day, so I couldn't resist. It didn't disappoint!!!!! Took me 3 mos and 125 hrs to finish. I was a little rusty gaming wise 😂

One of the best videogames I've played in 12 years. We're so privileged to have these creative geniuses at the helm of one is the best videogames we've seen in years

I just love how all humble and down to earth and oh just such awesome people! Would love to grab a beer with these guys!

Sven looks like hes fed up with the game, and in my opinion thats a great thing because hes focused on his next project, and i want to play that lol.

19:39 damn it is wulbren

Who was your favourite companion in Baldur's Gate 3?

BG3 is my 2nd favorite CRPG, just behind Planescape Torment! Both have great side characters, story and action!

All 4 of these are brilliant. Jane an amazing insider and interviewer as always, Swen showing the difference between a good CEO who cares and gets it vs all these Zazlav style garbage modern CEOs, and the writing and testing and development teams putting in the care and attention and communication and crucially *time* to make it great. Other studios (EA springs to mind for me, can't remember the last game I enjoyed from them) could really change everything they do to learn from this and become a good gaming company again, but they'd still turn it into a money driver DLC machine because they can't help themselves. It's why we should really support and invest in smaller studios and independents etc.

Oh no! In past interviews Swen always said his favourite class was Wizard! He's been converted! The Sorcs have taken him! Lol, loved the interview, adore the game, got over 2k hours in it now and haven't even tried any mods or anything, thank you everyone who helped make it for us!

Awesome interview. Would have like to hear a lot more from Crystal.

38:10 Swen is the Dark Urge himself!!!!!!

This was really nice to watch, good questions and interesting answers! Swearing a bit also added a certain charm, ngl. Everyone was really cool! Thank you for the interview and thanks to everyone at Larian for doing a really great job!

It's a sad state of affairs when a studio like Larian is the exception and not the rule.. Can't wait to experience their next game, whatever it will be!

Now I can't rest before someone visualizes Swens character. 38:05 Thanks for a great show!

Jane is so good, those other guys are ok as well, I suppose :-)

So clear Larian consists of gamers loving games and gamers

BG3 really was such a special work of technical art, its incredible that it exists as it does and didn't go down a different route. What an honor to see the Larian team get to speak here, I'm truly proud of the team for listening and delivering as excellently as they have. I'll be sure to see what they have cookin' next :)

BG3 and the developers attitude is what's gonna make me insta buy their next games, without any hesitation.

I think Larian actually IS who I want to be when I grow up.

Hopefully we get early access of their next game in a few months. Can't wait! :D

i played through BG3 twice. and both times i saw some congruency bugs or discrepencies that didnt quite work. But when you try to make something as complicated as BG3, i think most players know how impossible a task it is to make that perfect. Making something interesting and impressive is more important than making something perfect.

Will we get the voice actor panel too? Please? Please please?

Thank you for sharing this!

can't wait to play early access for their new project!!

'bones of the scene flow' is a cool thing to say.

I love this team of game creators. I got the game when it released and could not get into it. The combat for me was just not working. I knew the game was good, just not my cup of tea I guess. One day I went to my buddies house and he was playing the game with another friend, they were doing an evil playthrough. I watched them play for about 3 hours and it made me give it another whirl. I am now 40+ hours into it and loving it. When I beat Baldurs gate Im going to go and check out Divinity Original Sin 2. Cant wait to see what they put out next. I will absolutely be part of early access whenever that is a thing. I wish them all the best.

I was losing my mind trying to figure out where I knew the hostess from. She used to host Outside Xbox!

The further the interview stretches, it suddenly came to me that a certain game studio (which starts with B_______) needs to watch this.

What a great interviewer!

I think we all owe Larian for all the good things Baldur's Gate 3 is.

It would be nice if they would get those hard copies of the game mailed out to those who purchased them months and months ago.

I'm glad they are moving on from Balders gate but I'm really gonna miss Lae'zel

Best gamedevelopment studio on the planet.

I'm so glad they were so successful and their philosophy and company culture proved viable!

jANE??! sick

anyone knows what it Chrystal referring to at around 29:24 about the change post launch

"I want to move on: I want to make new things." Heck yes: if Larian can do this well with Baldur's Gate 3, who knows just how awesome their next game will be?!?

We need to focus on closures for the characters so it feels good for the player….. in the meantime astarion runs alone from the sun, burning alive and my Tav nor any other dum dum in my lvl 12 team lifts a finger to help…. I didnt know whether to cry or shout at those morons when it happened :/

Sven has a somewhat Tiefling like complexion.

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PRUDENCE!!!

Loved Baldur's Gate 3 but watching this for Jane Douglas more than Larian lol. Outsidexbox! So cool to see Jane out in the world.

Tav agrees

Bethesda and Blizzard, watch and learn 👏

I think I am done playing any game headed by a big money video game producer.

Is that jackie chan with long hair in the thumbnail?!

Basically, Larian's team is very interested and heavily invested in showing players a good time, and in my experience, taking a player's concerns seriously solves a lot of problems. People are much more forgiving if you take them seriously, even if you can't deliver everything. BUT! They will feel and find out if they are just oiled with snake oil and the internet doesn't forgive and forget.

Hey I know her from OutsideXbox! But wtf is BAFTA? lol

hahaha old Shart doesn't even have a chance at other classes in the developer's perspective.

bethesda take notes

They never finished the game. There's so much missing content and features.

too bad Hasbro ruined any chances of a sequel or expansion

Game's infested with bugs btw, that can lead to ending honor runs, believe it or not.

They deserved all the prizes they’ve won, they’ve built a masterpiece. It’s the first time I play a game for such a long time, I’m still playing it after almost a year and 480 hours of gameplay…and I’m still seeing new content 🫶🏻