/OURGUY/ SVEN showing those lazy chud devs how EVERYBODY can make GOOD VIDYA!
>"In an era of megagames, Baldur's Gate 3 is one of the largest attempted, built by a specialized group of people using mature tech specially built to make *this specific game*, reinforced by invaluable mass player feedback AND market validation ahead of its launch," wrote Nelson. "This is not a new baseline for RPGs—this is an anomaly. Trying to do the same thing in the same way, especially without the same advantages, could kill an entire GROUP of studios."
>Responding to the thread, Obsidian designer Josh Sawyer agreed that "the conditions under which BG3 was made are atypical," as did Diablo 4 senior designer Chris Balser, who said that "people too often only look at the fruits of labour and not the labour itself." On the flipside, a lot of gamers read these cautions against rising expectations as defensive. Why not expect more from RPGs after a developer has successfully pushed the genre's boundaries in a direction we like?
>"The problem I have is with the use of the word 'standards,'" Vincke said. "This is videogames, standards just die every day. Things get reinvented. New things appear all the time. When I was starting out in the industry, Assassin's Creed set the new standard. It was over—nobody could make games like Assassin's Creed, there was too much budget behind it, that was going to be the future, everybody had to consolidate, blah blah blah. That didn't materialize. In videogames there's so much free space to explore, still, in the creative tree."
https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-RPG-standards-swen-vincke-interview/
>To the extent that standards do exist, Vincke found it "strange" that developers from larger studios would be concerned about boundary-pushing, pointing specifically to the new creative possibilities that technological advancements can enable. As for RPGs in particular, he noted that it doesn't take an enormous game like Baldur's Gate 3 to change the genre.
>"Disco Elysium changed standards on the fly with a small team, right?" said Vincke. "That's a completely different standard now. There are so many games that change standards, to the point that there's no standards, was my thing. But I think you should always strive to evolve, especially in this medium which is different than other media in the sense that technological evolution has always been a big part of it. There's always been innovation, but at the same time, it doesn't require massive technological evolution to do something crazy, and cool, and different than what anybody else has done before."
Wow, he said nothing with a lot of words.
I also like how he didn't even define what "standard" means or what kind of standards were set by the examples provided.
industry standard is to spend 5+ years developing a game that's unplayable at launch, has the same boring mechanics as every other successful game, has the mobile tiles UI, filled with microtransactions and season passes, tons of cutscenes and hidden cutscenes and is written by the most unfunny redditors imaginable.
He's right.. And that's why Josh the homosexual Sawyer is seething
>"Disco Elysium changed standards on the fly
Did it? I haven't seen a game that tries to be like it
Pentiment and Citizen Sleeper have similar gameplay.
That's what he means, that standards aren't a thing in video games and devs should stop chasing trends and just experiment like it used to be
Disco Elysium is a visual novel
Not a video game
>crpg with no text
Tendies have the most moronic takes. Frick off to Paper Mario.
How about a crpg with gameplay mechanics you cuck
Would be a novelty for you
Not an rpg you mean? Quite a novelty for sure.
When you realize hacks like sawyer and balser are offering this half-baked praise and full on dismissal of a game which took more effort than everything they've put out in 15 years - it's to defend their jobs. They love their cushy "oh I'm making the same game again? for the 6th time?" approach to design. They are lazy and don't want to be challenged and will casually dismiss the efforts of those who actually do something that took a modicum of effort.
The western industry is poisoned by lazy slugs who don't wish to do anything interesting any more. They get paid for the bare minimum and now that they literally work for microsoft in some weird subsidiary situation, who famously bails out studios in constant free fail for over a decade why try to spoil that? They're getting paid the big bucks to sit on their ass basically. Game devs are paid A LOT too. Way more than they deserve for the work they put out.
Remember how in the past year all these massive megacorps like facebook and twitter literally fired thousands of people? And the only thing that changed is they do *more* shit now? Gaming has this same problem too. These do-nothings that take up space and get paid significantly for it exist in gaming too and they're trying their absolute hardest (which really, isn't saying much) to not get exposed and fired.
BG3 is gay reddit propaganda by the way.
>"oh I'm making the same game again? for the 6th time?"
Larian has been making the "same" game for the 3rd time. But it's good, people like it, and most importantly, they've been getting better at it, not worse.
Exactly why it's so comical that there's such an outcry from the likes of Sawyer. It's been the same game but worse every time. Goes to show the kind of corporate structure Microsoft is putting out there against this kind of thing. It won't end.
Pentiment was definitely not the same game as anything.
I can't believe IGN made a video with a good take for once.
>Destin from Screwattack
Blast from the past.
>Literally so moronic he can't comprehend why studios which are succesful just pump out what works
>nooo they should just try random shit for shits and giggles, that's totally how buisness works
Still not buying your pozzed shit
BG3 is gonna win goty and you are gonna cope and seethe about it chud while I have sex with my loyal half elf wife Shadowhearth.
sorry kiddo, zelda won
BG3 has higher metacritic than Zelda, BG3 is gonna win.
tlou2 won goty too. Congrats i guess.
Sure you forget that everytime you shill zelda for goty, tendie
Zelda will win, not because it is good but because it is Zelda.
zelda is a sequel using the same map. baldurs gate is a leftist wet dream that people actually play. you're delusional
No it wont and i loved BOTW. ToTK was good for me, but its just so much content with so little rewards.
>My game is good because it wins a chocolate medal at a millionaire TV show that has no actual influence in the industry
Ganker seems to think awards and reviews are objective standards when they favor From Slopware. BG3 is objectively superior to Elden Slop since reviews matter now
Starfield will win
GOTY is a hollow award that only zoomers and terminally online people care about
We know and we pity you, always sad to see /misc/tards only caring to fit in here as tough internet warriors, instead of having a good life.
>We
Begone
>the gay vampire has boundary issues and is basically a rapist
yeah man they're totally portraying gays in a good light! v pozzed, so progressive.
The LGBLTs love grooming
Noncon isn't rape sweaty
Statistically speaking homosexuals are more likely to xommit domestic violence. And that includes lesbians. In fact lesbians are THE most likely commit domestic violence against women. So portraying gays a good people is actually incorrect. I mean you don't support violence against women...right...right?
i fish the gayness was restricted to the homosexual vampire who is a comically homosexual fruitcake. but even the seemingly normal straight characters are actually homosexuals. literally every single character is gay. except jaheira, but she has a half orc troony son.
No one wants nazi incel freaks shitting up discussions of BG3 so good.
I don't think a guy who cuts off his dick because he thinks he can transform into a woman has any right to call others freaks
No one cares
Best post
This, simple as.
The other troonyvelopers are only as mad because they can't virtual signal to trannies as hard as this game does. Frick western developers.
next time don't make a piece of shit game full of trannies, gays, furry content, etc.
based
But the game is MC sexual. If you want to sex the guy and still be straight, play a female. If you wanna sex the best girls, play as a man. What's so hard to understand?
>act2 starts
>ever talking to a companion makes them immediately want to fingerbang your butthole
they need an ~~*asexual compatibility mode*~~ toggleable on individual characters to be fully DEI and ESG compliant
How are any of you real?
you made all the incels angry, lel
It was available to pirate the day after launch. I might try it eventually.
BG3 isn't an enormous game, it's a simple turn-based game made using the same systems as the divinity games and the ruleset is copied from D&D. The bulk of the work is having tons of dialogue and cutscenes, yet for the majority of your playthrough you'll be stuck in slow turn-based combat sequences that last way too long.
They even ignored things like a day and night cycle because it would be too much work giving NPCs schedules. This whole "BG3 is raising the bar" narrative is total bullshit marketing.
Exactly. Most of the map is just an overworld dungeon. I'd dwscribe Baldur's Gate 3 as Witcher 1 + Disco Elysium, but those games had day/night cycles.
Was DE real time? Maybe I'm thinking of another game where time only moves when you interact, talk, fight etc.
Time moves while talking, but there are only like 4 fights in entire game.
So its not a true day/night cycle, as its tied to player input to move time along.
I guess you're right. Time doesn't pass while you run around the city.
that's the thing, "the bar" is managing to make something barely on par compared to games from the early 2000s. which is something AAA seethes no one views open world games as being a successor to.
if you started BG3 at level 5 like a DM would as a module, the first act that takes 20 hours and 10% of players have even completed turns into what
>gate fight
>2 fight spider dungeon
>3 fight witch dungeon
>optional owl bear
>village 1 with 3 combat zones
>le half ogre sex CG fight
>chaotic stupid route: kill the grove, 3-4 combat zones
>normal route: kill the goblins, 3-4 combat zones
>3 technical bosses, 50-70 health
a rebalance/level mod will make this game take like 12 hours in total and the first act as short as an hour by just rocking up and killing the gobbos.
masking that lack of things to actually do is a point to their credit, but over time people will resent it as they attempt some kind of replay value. nothing is truly optional in their game design unless you want to play under leveled on journo mode. that's markedly inferior to even older BG titles yet a 7/10 in 2003 is an 11/10 game in 2023.
modern devs are absolute shit at putting out content
and they're even worse at putting out interconnected content
starfield isn't going to have half the content of bg3
> Leader of the trannies is just as much of an obnoxious culture warrior and shitstirrer as the fanbase ghouls underneath him
Like pottery. Culture War: The Game.
Would be based, but the dev is unfortunately outrageously anti-white. Opinion discarded.
>but the dev is unfortunately outrageously anti-white
How so?
Act 3 is super buggy and laggy. If this is the new standard then we're in for some slop bois.
The armor mechanic in DOS2 is gay as in stupid and moronic.
>the hype is just around a "robust" quest system that takes into account a few variables. Not impressive when you get mass effect tier endings.
>the rest of the game "awesomeness" is 90% D&D rules the developers didn't have to think about.
If you cannot meet the BG3 "standard" your developers should commit suicide. The bar is not high.
The standard is being fully voiced and animated.
I honestly think more that the standard is not being riddled with mtx and season passes, just putting a full game out (although it even had early access) that works and is fully done. Plus the notion that it is exatcly what someone with a vision wanted to do, something that connects with his Disco Elysium comment
>I honestly think more that the standard is not being riddled with mtx and season passes
A sad state...
If it was actually "raising bars" it would be ripped to shreds by journalist and devs.
I remember some game reviewer nitpicking about Elden Ring having on-screen UI saying it's not immersive. That's what happens when a game actually raises bars.
In case of BG3 you would have journos complaining about lack of day/night cycle
Remember what they took from you. All caster fricking suck SVEN!
They should have increased the level cap for mages.
i haven't seen any gameplay webms of this game here or any organic discussion. just north korean style propagandistic praising without any real substance.
It's not like the game is consistently high quality all the way through, and it doesn't seem anything out of the ordinary. Larian is just building on top of things they've built for their previous games.
STANDARDS
shifting paradigms and shit
Is the vitiligo pattern randomly generated each time or is is just a mask?
There is a fricking slider
All this raving about the CC and you can't even change features
>when you haven't stolen in two days
>Megagames
Their meme buzzword ain't getting over with me brother -HH
Releasing the game with the last third rushed and unfinished is not a new standard, Swen. Been a thing for decades, in fact.
clear goals, competence building, clear division of labor and incorporating feedback is literally incomprehensible black magic for most video game devs it appears. Can't be done apparently. Larian was just extremely lucky it seems.
Multi-billion dollar industry btw
>Multi-billion dollar industry btw
Ask me how I know you haven't worked an actual job for just a single day.
EVERY industry is like that, in fact I suspect the only reason that it hasn't collapsed completely is because everyone, without exception, is constantly fricking up so there's kind of a balance of shit.
A single actually competent company with proper management on all levels could rule the world in just a few years.
>Can't be done apparently.
Any bigger company in any imaginable field can't do it either. There are always incompetent people around, from your basic floor worker to upper management that screw shit up and slow down everything.
Chudcels on suicide watch. Or not, nobody cares if evil chudcels die lol!
>When I was starting out in the industry, Assassin's Creed set the new standard. It was over—nobody could make games like Assassin's Creed, there was too much budget behind it, that was going to be the future, everybody had to consolidate, blah blah blah. That didn't materialize
Except it ruined AAA games for a decade.
Based, but improve the followers for the sequel I don't want other Gale groom rape you because you thought he was going to teach you magic spells
>they marketed the goddamn out of a game that already had tremendous name recognition going in and is based on the literal most popular rpg in the world
>holy shit how'd it sell so well? this must be the best rpg ever made and the new standard going forward
the people who write these articles are mindless automatons
I don’t care about political shit in this game. I just don’t want every rpg to be this boring.
>game based on 5e sells incredibly well
I hate secondaries so fricking much
3.5 is for boomers, boomer.
AD&D 2nd edition is the only D&D version worth playing
>Mainsteam game where you can be a futa and frick tentacle monsters who are your wife and husband at once while in a polyamorous relationship
This ain't do be it friends,
degeneracty
>Megagames israelited newspeak
>You cant expect us to do all that work to justify the $60 price tag
>You cant compare our pozzed lowest effort shareholder driven slop with an actual game made by passionate devs
Frick these people
Seriously. Reading fricking kotakus interview, they devote an entire paragraph regurgitating that corporate apologist claptrap:
“For all of Baldur’s Gate 3’s freedom of expression, it will, one day when we’ve all played through it dozens of times, show itself to be another game beholden to the same things all games are. Nothing can ever truly recapture the freedom that imagination brings to a tabletop game. But Baldur’s Gate 3 is proof that Larian Studios knows how to capture that spirit and develop in pursuit of that feeling. It’s unreasonable to hold other RPGs to such a standard. As others have said, Baldur’s Gate 3 is an anomaly in how games of this scope are developed. This only happens when a studio has years of development time and an early access period in which to work out its vision alongside a tuned-in community. If nothing else, it’s less a new standard to hold other games to and more a reminder that the industry seldom lets games cook this long to achieve the things Baldur’s Gate 3 does. It’s a shining example of both the limitations of video games as we know them, and the possibilities they can hold.“
I mean….they need to shut the frick up. If you want to glorify capitalism and its virtues, you should be inviting the competition and drive that baldurs gate 3 should ignite. All these lazy, greedy devs saying we shouldn’t expect quality like this are only outing themselves.
All these AAA devs, reduced to crying and seething over RPG gay simulator.
Incredible.
I take serious offense to kotaku faithlessly vomiting up the point too. We as consumers can and should expect high quality. It is INFURIATING to see these buttholes all line up and say we should be honored to accept their garbage.
>playing one of those
>night time
>mom tells me to go to bed
>start whining about how I want to catch the owl which only comes out at night
>dad pulls my pants down and spanks me
>actually reading what some kotaku gay has to say
Larian was able to do a kickstarter and actually deliver the product, that's why they could keep the game in EA this long, there was two precedents already.
This entire diatribe is moronic, there are no standard here outside of a dev doing the shit they like and not being manhandled by the publisher outside of WoTC forcing their gay ass system and lore. And this freedom was won by them being a bunch of alcoholic belgian coomers who love making games and love their moronic writings and bordering bankruptcy several times.
>This only happens when a studio has years of development time and an early access period in which to work out its vision alongside a tuned-in community.
Poor point since every major study take like 6 years before releasing anything and they could develop the game in communion with the public but they rather not because they don't want to hear any criticisms, this is not the 90s anymore each dev has like 3 discords 2 forums and 1 account in every social media they just rather not use it at all beyond announcing the release date and asking for forgiveness after not doing anything for years
STOP MAKING GOOD GAMES, IT MAKES ME LOOK BAD! AAAAHHHH!!!!
I'm not seeing the "new standard". DOS was a new standard. BG3 put closeup shots on DOS and that's new? They're pretending DOS doesn't exist?
Yeah Divinity Original Sin changed how people perceived WRPGs BG3 just follow that path
I believe most BG3 fangirls simply did not play Divinity Original Sin. They went from Mass Effect to Skyrim to Cyberpunk to BG3. Otherwise they would not be so impressed.
I just want uglier games with less dev time and interesting mechanical and stylistic variety lol
making them smaller in the process would also be nice
>Assassin's Creed set the new standard
>chud
I know this is an ironic post. Do conservatives want worse video games?
The only devs worried about BG3 are browser based porn games. They should be concerned that we've gone so Weimer that porn games are now game of the year contenders.
dont worry, monster girl quest paradox will save the porn game industry
Sounds to me like a bunch of studioheads b***hing and moaning because they sold the frick out and let a bunch of soulless corporations by them and force shitty deadlines and crunch on the devs meanwhile Larian crowdfunds their games to retain control and takes all the time they need to dev. Publishers are and always will be scum.
Swen honestly seems like a cool guy. I just wish he was a better developer. Because i don't think have gorillion empty containers on every map is good game design. That's to say nothing about a dubious decision to use 5th edition rules for the game
>Swen honestly seems like a cool guy. I just wish he was a better developer.
Haha
/thread
5e was out of his hands at least. Wizards of the Coast will enforce whatever their wanted ruleset is on their IP.
I think israelites of the coast forced it on him when they gave him the IP
While i would love fo play BG3 i jusf can't see it in myself to skip BG1 and 2 and honestly don't ever see myself playing them either so BG3 will be something I won't play.
On that, wish devs would use game 3, game 4 etc as titles. I havr the same problem with dark souls 3, i have played dark souls 1 however but probably won't ever play 3 due to that.
just play it anyway ocd gets power if you oblige it
Anon the only related thing to BG1 and 2 are two companions that are more easter eggs and a old villain making a cameo, you don't need to play these at all to enjoy it
Good morning sirs
This whole thing is kind of a farce for AAA. It seems like there is just this attititude among AAA spaces that its ok to be where theyre at, because whatever you make is going to be better than indie games, so there is no need to push it, you set the standard, and if you want to do the bare minumum then everyone else can catch up is bullshit, they just arent even trying and are spinning their wheels trying to pump out money printers and not actually make a game that is just good and sells on its merit.
Larian was the perfect people for the BG3, they were making those games for years and they know exactly how to get it to work, and is why the game is able to push standards and exceed. So whats Dices excuse with Battlefield, or Bethesda with Elder Scrolls/Fallout. etc. Theres lots of studios that have been making the same games for decades, and they have gotten worse, not better.
AAA doesnt want to raise the bar, its happy where the bar is, knowing that anyone that isnt AAA cant reach it and thats enough. Its fricking dumb.
>Larian was the perfect people for the BG3
No, the the Black Hound by a full-sized Black Isle Studios would have been perfect. And they actually started working on it, similar to the real Fallout 3 (Van Buren). Both of those games would have been the real deal, and not this shit we got later.
>no day night cycle
gsc won.
Gen 3 was ground zero for everything wrong with the Pokemon franchise
>removed mechanics
>friendly rivals
>evil team reserructing god to rule the world
>Pikaclones
Also I play a Dragonborn Cleric
YES GOYIM, INJECT THE AIDS! YOU WANT THE AIDS! AIDS IS GOOD, MORE AIDS IS GOODERER!
I think BG3 sucks donkey dick AND that it's ridiculous devs would complain that a game they perceive is 'too good'.
>the western industry is so dogshit they think bg3 is now raising the bar.
grim.
Well the western industry still haven't reached the bar that Skyrim put on sandbox games and honestly they will never since they are more than comfortable by just copying assassins creed
Dev BTFOing the >noo you can't just have high standards crowd
Alright, I'll try this fricking game. I'll even frick a bear.
When does the marketing campaign end for this game?
Ok, but I keep hearing that Minthara didn't get much content, so I don't care as much to play it, since I was only in for the drussy.
Based.
Not going to get the game yet though, I need to finish 1 and 2 first.
This game the worst one to have ever played. No standards don't know what in frick you are talking about. This game full the gay sex. Every time talk to man character he tried the gay sex. I am not the gay man. I really hate this game. Combat so slow, take many hours for finished one fight. Only reward is the gay sex. Why do liberals keep making this types the games?
What about brand and marketing?
>Things get reinvented. New things appear all the time. When I was starting out in the industry, Assassin's Creed set the new standard. It was over—nobody could make games like Assassin's Creed, there was too much budget behind it, that was going to be the future, everybody had to consolidate, blah blah blah. That didn't materialize. In videogames there's so much free space to explore, still, in the creative tree."
Whatch how butthurt incels ignore this just to shitpost how Larian killed standards with bear sex or some shit
>muh agenda and pozzing
I'll let you guys in on a secret: developers with actual agendas don't make triple A shit like this, we went into edutainment. It's often government level with a wide reach and often aimed at schoolgoing kids so parents don't have total control over exposure. Enjoy what's coming 😀
>Pic
So they had a propper wizard in the game but gave us this quippy homosexual instead?!
It's just another shit game full of moronic homosexuals
Sven's arrogance will be his and Larian's undoing
>standards die every day
No wonder the game got worse the more you play it, frick act 2 and 3
>old bioware style rpg released in 2023
>people are going crazy
That's how low videogames have fallen. I almost finish bg3 and it's literally dragon age origins.
To be honest people have been waiting for a sequel of Dragon Age Origins for decades at this point
With the increasing acceptance of gacha, standards are dead.
Games were always monetised to shit and they always will be. Arcades stole your coins, early consoles had constant full priced rereleases, early MMO's were P2W, then we got DLC, online passes, battle passes, gacha, subs, lootboxes and what else not.
larian front loaded everything
again
again? So this shit is something they do regularly? Why does no one call them out for it? I fricking hated act 3.
because the vast majority of people play their games past act 1 or 2 and then lose interest
I don't give a shit, keep producing more quirky goyslop in silence, it's already bad enough that we have to tolerate your shitty dialogue whenever we make the mistake of buying your garbage games without first checking the company that regurgitated it.
NO NO NO NO BIOWARE SISTERS THIS CAN'T BE, HOW ARE WE MEANT TO COMPETE NOW?!
>Corey Butch
you can't make this shit up, but i suppose they/them did.
I would really love to know how the Dragon Age team feels after the release of BG3.
>At least in our game you can do a drop kick with full armor!
Japanese game devs have been raising the standards every year and the one time a western developer does it its suddenly a problem?
>anime faces
>played for 5 hours during beta in 2021
>obnoxious elf lady
>even more obnoxious gay wizard
>had to replay the opening area 3 times because of crashes and corrupt saves
>snap and play the game on mute because their accents make my skin crawl
>refund rejected
didn't even get to any sex scenes, the characters are just annoying
>Diablo 4 senior designer Chris Balser, who said that "people too often only look at the fruits of labour and not the labour itself."
Devs want participation trophies now?
Gaming is a volatile industry it's easy for good games to get swept under the rug or shit games to become "genre defining" only for a truly good game to come along and obliterate it and all of its clone. Ultima Underworld and DOOM both pushed first person games forward in different ways in the same year but Ultima Underworld is just a bit too clunky for people to pick up easily now while DOOM is a classic. Sometimes genres bounce around like CRPGS. KOTOR massively simplified and dumbed down RTWP from NWN and Baldur's Gate then Dragon Age Origins bumped it back up only to immediately shove it back down and then Pillars of Eternity showed hey we can just go all the way to Baldur's Gate again and make a successful game. There is no "cycle" or "stepping stones" it is what it is.
>just crunch to make incel racist g*mers happy brooo
delusional take
How do people still parrot this "lazy" thing?
Money in = quality out, but only so long as the bean counters aren't pushing purely for R.O.I.
BG3's situation is exceptional in that they don't have shareholders gauging their quarterly earnings and interfering at every step.
I'm having fun watching Ganker get pushed out of the hobby.
how so? I've had more fun with vidya in the last 2 years than I've had in a very long time and I'm not going to play BG3.
>how so?
It's always nice to see 2016 immigrants get btfo when goty breaks their narrrative, seeing them lose their minds over bg3 after convincing themselves over a twitter feed that the game was wokeshit destined to fail has been fricking amazing.
I don't understand people like you. The game looks rather generic to me. I never enjoyed DoS2, so I am most likely not going to enjoy BG3. Congrats on it doing so well commercially, it seems to mean a lot to you, but it's not really that important to me. I will still make fun of the game and call it shit, just like I think Skyrim and Cyberpunk are shit. The fact that those games sold millions of copies doesn't really make me change my mind about them.
>I never enjoyed DoS2, so I am most likely not going to enjoy BG3. Congrats on it doing so well commercially, it seems to mean a lot to you, but it's not really that important to me
And that's perfectly fine. You dont need to like or even play every game ever released, nobody expects you to either.
The fact that you think your criticism actually matters though? Yeah. That's what I'll never get tired of. Seeing morons like you screech angrily from your corner to no end or avail is always entertaining to watch.
It's really not that hard to get.
Its insane how much this game is being shilled
Its a pathetic shadow of what RPGs used to be in the 90's, but the whole world is pretending like this has raised standards
It really feels like being in some kind of hell dimension where most people are crazy
I am no longer in the same universe than I used to be
How about standards for quality control? Game is a buggy mess. Imagine releasing it early with all these Act 2 and 3 bugs just because you're afraid of Starfield stealing all the normie's attention from you. lol
Welcome to the modern CRPG scam.
Step 1: Make a huge, highly polished act 1
Step 2: Release that part of the game as Early Access
Step 3: Farm preorders
Step 4: Release the full game and rely on the fact that no reviewer will ever play past act 1 so nobody will know about all the bugs and half-assed late game content
Haven't had any issues with act 2, but I don't know what the frick is going on in act 3. Almost unplayable, they've been releasing hotfixes by the hour and it's still buggy in the latter game.
>surrounding titles are so fricking awful, a game that's actually good is considered lightning in a bottle
The absolute fricking state.
I really don't see it. Pathfinder: WOTR, Elden Ring, ToTK, Remnant 2, soon Armored Core 6 and Starfield. BG3 is surrounded by equally amazing or even better titles. We've had some really good years in video games recently.
>wotr
>remnant 2
The frick? both games are horrible
>starfield
No, I still dont get why you morons are putting so much stock in fricking bugthesda. The only good games you've named are ER,totk and AC6 (which still isnt out yet and remains to be seen)
I personally think WOTR is a much better cRPG than BG3 is. BG3 is a solid 7/10 so far, but WOTR is almost on the same level as the titans of the genre like BG2 and Planescape.
yeah, that's probably your nostalgia talking. wrath of the homosexuals is nowhere close to bg3, let alone planetscape
how can I have nostalgia for WOTR? The game came out like 2 years ago.
>Armored Core 6 and Starfield.
Not even out yet, Starfield is going to be more of a buggy mess than bg3 but I do have more faith in AC
As for the rest, they're kind of subjective but you're right, "some" games released this year are gems, but the fact that 4 titles in total can be agreed as good isn't a positive thing for the hobby. Just look at the roster of releases we had for the PS2 or the later years xbox.
Reminder tendies are shitposting and seething about this game because it mogs their $70 dlc
BG3, its community, and the marketing behind it is incredibly, unfathomably gay and israeli
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So the new standard of AAA gaming will be release garbage product that's not even 1/3 finished for full price in EA. Wait 4 years. Then finally give people the full product?
Wow, can't wait! Thanks Sven!