Baldur's Gate 3 News

Baldur's Gate 3's Neil Newbon isn't sure about a mocap Game Award, but he's got a great alternative

Clair Obsur: Expedition 33 is perhaps the most exciting gaming success story since Baldur's Gate 3. Brought to vibrant life by a small, double-A developer with a true vision and knack for storytelling, it may not have the same scope as Larian's epic, but Sandfall has etched itself into many a history book - including the Game Awards'. The most decorated RPG yet, it earned three nominees in the performance category: Ben Starr, eventual winner Jennifer English, and Charlie Cox, who implored fans to recognize his motion capture actor, Maxence Cazorla, instead. Cox's comments have bred the question of whether the Game Awards needs its own motion capture category. I ask Baldur's Gate 3 and Resident Evil alumni, Neil Newbon, for his take.

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"F**k AI in performance," says Baldur's Gate 3's Neil Newbon: "it's dull as hell," and companies should "spread the wealth"

Neil Newbon's stance on AI is pretty clear. Earlier this year when the SAG-AFTRA videogame strike was at its peak, he formed the Pixel Pack: a collection of some of gaming's most prolific actors that includes everyone from heavy hitters like Troy Baker and Matt Mercer to newcomers like fellow Baldur's Gate 3 alumni Devora Wilde and 2025 Game Award winner Jennifer English. "Fuck AI in performance," he tells me, but despite the cuss word, he's dead serious - Neil Newbon isn't here to play.

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Baldur's Gate 3 "rekindled many players' love for CRPGs," which Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader dev says is a blessing

It's easy to imagine rival developers as, well, rivals. Crossing their fingers for game-breaking bugs, checking Metacritic scores and slapping their knees in comic anger when another CRPG breaks the 90 barrier. The reality is very different. Many developers at different studios are friends and former colleagues, or they just want to see their corner of the games industry thrive. That's certainly the case with Owlcat Games, the team behind Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader. Owlcat brand manager Anton Emelyanov has recently gone on the record to say he admires Baldur's Gate 3 and the team at Larian, going as far as to say it has proved to the team that there's an audience for narrative-driven CRPGs.

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Baldur's Gate 3 has nearly ten days' worth of voice lines, and Larian boss admits that it "wasn't really keeping track"

Even if you're on your umpteenth playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3, chances are you're still going to come across interactions you've never seen before. As you make new choices, befriend new allies and make different enemies, and spec your character in alternative ways, you'll delve deeper and deeper into Larian's enormous pot of voice lines and narrative outcomes. It's arguably the biggest reason why BG3 is one of the best RPGs of all time. Now, a fan has done some serious research and worked out that there are over nine days' worth of voice lines in the game's files, and on learning this, Larian CEO Swen Vincke admits that "we weren't really keeping track."

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Baldur's Gate 3 fan discovers the game has nearly 237 hours of spoken dialogue in it—and a whopping 14 hours are narrator Amelia Tyler's alone, though Astarion gives her a run for her money

Baldur's Gate 3 has dialogue. A LOT of dialogue. Heaping, great stonking helpings of dialogue. This was to be known already, given the sheer volume of NPCs you talk to when you're running around in the thing—'tis a fact that is self-evident...
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