Feanor

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 ?

There are always rumors about a BG3 in the works. I say no to another sequel. Let the honored champion rest in peace.

Agreed. And we don't want any Bhaalspawn wee kids, either, to step up. The story's rather very finished by now. (If someone INSISTS on it, I guess their protagonists in other games could serve as Bhaalspawnspawn. I personally think that's just a tiny bit lame, but to each their own.)

Dude, if that's the best you can come up with it, it means that the imagination of the BG fans has reached an all-time low. There are a TON of intrigues which can be created if someone wants to ressurect the franchise without resorting to such an obvious and childish solution.
The cliche of BG3 based on "Bhaalspawn kids" has become ridiculous already and starts to look more like simple negativity at this point.

I'll give you just ONE suggestion : while playing the Bhaalspawn again is impossible mainly because due to the high levels reached in Throne of Bhaal, in a BG3 the Bhaalspawn could become the main antagonist this time.
The saga of Bhaal's inheritance has ended, but as far as I'm concerned, the Bhaalspawn is very much alive and kicking in Faerun or among the planes (if he accepted godhood). The Throne of Bhaal didn't put an end to his biography.
The battle for the throne of Bhaal may have ended, but the story of the Bhaalspawn did not. We don't know what happened with him after the end, do we (regardless if he accepted godhood or not) ?

In the case of the above-mentioned scenario, I admit that the prospect of confronting my former alter-ego from the first two Baldur's Gate looks quite enticing.

Sure that the plot can turn into a disaster, but no more than the plot of any new game. It depends only on how good the writers are.