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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who the f is Shawn, wtf is evolve? Why is every shitty game dev crying that other people make good games, without shame? Oh that's right, based on their releases, they have no shame.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Who are these people? Seems like some randos if you ask me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Those developers trying to shit on Larian need to cry and seethe more. Terribly incompetent people who can't create good games themselves, why not trying taking notes instead?

Keep up the great work Larian.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The devs are mostly not the problem with the state of AAA games today, it's the people telling them what to do in order to maximise profits.

Same as with most problems we face as a species, really.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hear that Gamefreak, owner of the highest-grossing media franchise of all times?

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They learned their lesson though. They don't need to put on any effort and people will still buy it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know and I fucking hate it. I was one of the fanboys defending them even through the first SwSh trailers, but the more they showed stuff the more it was clear it wasnโ€™t the franchise I used to love anymore.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People have been saying this game is exciting because of the lack of mtx, but it seems to me that any big rpg gets a lot of attention. Eldan Ring got similar praise last year. Bioware was making these kinds of games fairly consistently about a decade ago and then stopped to make shit like Anthem. It's a design decision not a budget problem.

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Microtransactions come with specific challenges. Specifically, you have to give the players a reason to pay them, and that's usually done by making the game purpously worse for those who don't pay.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are people pretending baulders gate is the only high selling game with no microtransactions as of late? Off the top of my head Elden Ring and Tears of the Kingdom both released in the last year or so, no microtransactions or dlc as of now.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (17 children)

I have a large backlog of games to play before I even think about buying anything new, but is this even a good game? Serious question because I know there has been a huge amount of press on it, but haven't watched any reviews yet (on purpose because I hate spoilers and don't want to be tempted with a new purchase yet).

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It uses DND 5e as the underlying rules set. I hate DND 5e. It's a garbage system full of old bad ideas, and it has such tremendous brand awareness it sucks all the air out of the hobby space.

Baldur's Gate 3 is still an extremely good game in spite of all that.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you like old school CRPGs?

Do you like tabletop/pen and paper RPGs?

Do you have one to 3 friends to play with?

If the answer is yes to 2 of those, then I highly recommend it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I'm not too fond of CRPGs and I'm hooked on this game. It oozes excellent workmanship and appreciation for the genre/source material which makes it hard to resist.

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