Feanor

I was on gamefaqs.com the other day and saw this. I'm surprised it wasn't posted here. Really surprised. Did I mention surprised?  

Dragon Age

   Your link connects to nothing related to Dragon Age. What is this about ?

Check Delusions for info on 4E, Feanor, but the short version is: everything you know about FR is now wrong. Up to and including the Planes, the various races, the way magic works, the entire class and prestige class system, the nations of FR, and so on and so forth. Personally, Bioware and Bethesda are about the only companies I would trust with another Baldur's Gate game.

       Eh, I took a look, but it's not like that. It's not that "everything has become wrong", simply Forgotten Realms endured some major historical changes like it happened in the past on several occasions (The Crown Wars and The Sundering, The Fall of Netheril, The Times of Troubles etc). It's nothing surprising from this point of view and a welcome change in my opinion, because I disliked that the Realms seemed to be set in stone with no major alteration.

      If someone wants to use the previous edition he can simply set the campaign before 1375 and everything is ok.

Hmm.. a game set during the Year of Shadows could at least prove some damn interesting opportunities.

      See, Choo, your unbearable rejection of BG3 is not shared by many.  

     BTW, could you elaborate ? When is this year of Shadows and what do you have in mind by "interesting opportunities".

     And you are too pessimistic about the story of BG3. A story is as good as the writer who writes it.

Seldarine, Feanor is back. What have we done to deserve this? Now all is left is TGMaestro to show up, and my misery will be complete.

Anyway, yes and yes to Tempest's statements. The dialogue will suck, and WotC plays by the different rules now, so the game will be a letdown, and an unrecognizable letdown at that.

(This is my cue to suck up and say something about hiring JCompton and Co, but everyone knows we're the best when it comes to shoes, forgetful bards and morose elves anyway, so. )

    Can you elaborate a bit ? Haven't kept up with D&D for the last two years. Heard that they moved the setting almost 100 years up in time but nothing more than that.

If it's me you're refering to as "dude", I'm a girl. And no, it's not everything I can imagine (I have a very vivid and broad imagination, thank you), but that doesn't mean I don't feel that the story is VERY finished. I want some things left to my imagination. And yes, the Bhaalspawn is very much alive and kicking, but that doesn't mean I want to hear more about it.

But to each their own, I guess.

(in any case, a BG3 without the Bhaalspawn as a protagonist wouldn't really be a sequel in the same way. They should make a new game - with the IE engine - in that case.)

   In fact, I used "dude" as a generic term.  

   And, damn, I see you are not willing to give it a chance.  

      Choo, the suits don't care about this. From what I know (but it could be false, though) Baldur's Gate wasn't even supposed to be a saga focused around the Bhaalspawn character (hence the title) but rather a series of separate stories a la Icewind Dale set in the Baldur's Gate area. It's only the huge success of the Bhaalspawn saga who made Baldur's Gate 2 to be done as it was.
    BG2 isn't even set in Baldur's Gate area so the title makes just as much sense as a BG3 without the Bhaalspawn.

    Honestly, I think it's worth a try, but as Kulyok said you need good writers to avoid a fiasco, that much is true.

    But, Cho, did you feel that the story was finished after BG1 as well ?   You may feel that way, but do you realize that the ending from TOB again wasn't the one originally intended either ?