Baldur's Gate 3 limits the number of corpses you can speak to by, um, decapitating them

Developer Larian Studios has revealed that the reason for the abundance of decapitated bodies in Baldur's Gate 3 is to avoid the need to write dialogue for dead characters, sparking speculation about their next game, which may be based on a sci-fi property.

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