Baldur’s Gate 3 – its own multiverse of possibility (Picture: Larian Studios)

It looks like the new Dungeons & Dragons game from Larian Studios will end up the biggest RPG ever made, including in terms of cut scenes.

Considering 2017’s Divinity: Original Sin 2 lasted well over 60 hours, it’s no surprise to find out that the next game from Belgian developer Larian Studios is also enormous – almost incomprehensibly so in fact.

Following their recent Panel from Hell showcase, in which they unveiled a sex scene between an elf vampire and a druid that turns into a bear, other details have emerged, including the fact that its script is three times the length of all three Lord Of The Rings novels combined.

That’s only the script for the cut scenes alone though, not the whole game, with Larian stating that the back-to-back the cinematics last 174 hours – twice the length of the whole of the Game Of Thrones TV show.

You won’t be seeing all those cut scenes in a single playthrough though, as the game features a huge variety of different characters and branching plot points, so nobody is likely to watch them all, outside of compilations on YouTube.

There’s also no suggestion that they’re unusually long, just that there are an awful lot of them.

Larian has also stated that there are 17,000 different permutations for the ending of the game. These are referred to as variants though, so a lot of those are implied to be more or less the same and different only dependent on the specific characters involved, and decisions you made earlier in the game.

Still, it’s a huge number and suggests that Baldur’s Gate 3 will, overall, be a much bigger game than Divinity: Original Sin 2.

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The cut scene information was revealed by Larian on Steam, while the endings were discussed in the video below on YouTube, where it’s claimed that Baldur’s Gate 3 will be the biggest RPG ever.

Subsequent tweets imply that the 17,000 figure has become infamous amongst Larian’s staff, although they refuse to say how many core endings there will be, that the others are just variations of. Like everything else, though, it seems certain to be a very big number.

Oh no they found the 17,000 number https://t.co/54zAaGsfYj

— Very AFK (@Cromwelp) July 17, 2023

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It looks like the new Dungeons & Dragons game from Larian Studios will end up the biggest RPG ever made, including in terms of cut scenes.