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What is up with Baldur's Gate 3? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is not a criticism - I love how much attention this game has been getting. I'm just not understanding why BG3 has been blowing up so much. It seems like BG3 is getting more attention than all of Larian's previous games combined (and maybe all of Obsidian's recent crpgs as well). Traditionally crpgs have not lit the world on fire in this way. Is it just timing of the release? Is it a combo of Divinity fans and new D&D fans and Baldur's Gate oldheads all being stoked about this release for their own reasons? Or something else?

Note:I have not played it yet myself, just curious what folks think?

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's not perfect or anything, but it feels like a release with very pure intentions and people seem to resonate with that. No micro transactions, no lootboxes, no DRM (not even Steam's is implemented), no release day DLC, fast hotfixing, and maybe with the promise of classic expansion packs. The sort of practices that people want to encourage, packaged with a formidable and generally well put together game.

When bigger, more corporate dev studios come out and give it free marketing by saying how unrealistic it is to make games like it... that's free, excellent publicity.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's also bright and colourful and slightly cartoonish in a way that, say, Pillars of Eternity wasn't. I wonder if this makes it feel slightly more mainstream, slightly more 'fun', and a bit less like a stodgy old CRPG from yesterday (and to be clear, I loved PoE the way I loved BG and BG2).

It's also got enough wild shit in it to grab a few headlines that way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, it feels a bit less grimy doom and gloom, despite the narrative and themes. Being fully voice acted, and well, helps to no end with what can otherwise turn in to a wall of text reading slog.