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Divinity: Original Sin is still the 'highlight' of Baldur's Gate 3 director's career because it let Larian Studios 'start doing the things we really want'

Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke considers Divinity: Original Sin the highlight of his career despite the success of Baldur's Gate 3, which swept major game award ceremonies.

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Baldur's Gate 3 - that wee game that you might have heard about after its award-winning, chart-topping ascent last year - put all eyes on developer Larian Studios, but despite such a massively successful game under his belt, Larian CEO and founder Swen Vincke reckons an earlier RPG is still the "highlight" of his career.

Before Baldur's Gate 3 made the studio a household name, two crowdfunded Divinity: Original Sin games are what opened the door to for the D&D RPG to exist in the first place. "The highlight of my career so far was most likely the release of Divinity: Original Sin one, which was our first breakthrough hit, because that changed everything for us," Vincke said in an interview with BAFTA.

"If I would have to pick one, I would probably pick the release of Divinity: Original Sin because it was really a sense of relief - finally, we managed, after all these years, we managed to break through," he continued. "We [could] now start doing the things that we really wanted to do all this time. That's probably my favourite one."

Vincke doesn't brush aside the sweeping success of Baldur's Gate 3 either, though. "Obviously winning the BAFTAs, winning The Game Awards, this entire year has been insane, so there were many, many highlights," he said, selling himself a little short since Baldur's Gate 3 was actually the first game to ever grab gold in all major game award ceremonies. 

It would be easy to just build on the hype with a Baldur's Gate 4, but the company announced that it was done with the D&D license and was hammering away at an all-new RPG. Though, some developers are apparently finding it hard to create something totally new because, it turns out, they "did a lot of things in Baldur's Gate 3."

*Elsewhere, *the Baldur’s Gate 3 director was “afraid the game was going to be too short,” but admitted he’s “very bad at judging the length of our games.”