Larian Studios found an incredible amount of success with Baldur's Gate 3 — a single-player game that still averages 90,000 concurrent players (on Steam) over two years after its release. There's no doubt in anyone's mind that Baldur's Gate 3 catapulted Larian into the mainstream, despite the studio's previous accomplishments.
The success of Divinity: Original Sin 2, though still a fantastic game, pales in comparison to that of Baldur's Gate 3. As a result, the majority of Larian's contemporary fan base are fans of Baldur's Gate 3 and not necessarily Divinity. Larian is fully aware that many of the players looking forward to Divinity are completely ignorant of the series' past, and is trying to navigate the implications of that in as deft a manner as possible.
In an interview with GamesRadar+, Larian head Swen Vincke spoke about the series' past and was explicit in his non-recommendation of players going back to play older Divinity games if they specifically like Baldur's Gate 3 for its cinematic nature.
"If you played Baldur's Gate 3 because it was a cinematic narrative experience, you shouldn't play the previous ones unless you want to know the lore," Vincke explains. "If you played because...
