Baldur’s Gate 3 is a smashing success, offering a choose-your-own-adventure story come to life. Cinematic conversations, bespoke interactions, and memorable characters line every moment of this grand fantasy adventure. However, Baldur’s Gate 3 isn’t the first successful attempt to marry cinematic aspirations with the traditional branching narratives and simulationist world-building of CRPGs. 2009’s Dragon Age: Origins had a very similar mission statement, offering a spiritual successor to BioWare’s earlier Baldur’s Gate titles long before Larian took us back to the
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