Something being popular doesn’t mean it’s good just as something being unpopular doesn’t mean it’s bad. I’m not saying it’s not better than their other titles, but there’s nothing specifically remarkable about the BG IP that made it better than if it were in any other setting.
Bigger budget means more people and more time which let you spend more time on the little details. They were capable of BG3 after D:OS2, whether they did it or not. They’re still capable of it. There’s nothing special about the BG IP that means they can’t make a game of similar quality in any other setting.
Their next game will be better, 5e held them back as much as its recognition boosted it’s popularity. WotC will spend the next decade chasing the success of BG3 while these guys rinse and repeat as they always have.
There’s no reason to believe there was anything special about BG3 other than any WotC funding and lore.
And yet maybe just don’t sell your soul to any company?
It clearly is
Weird coming from the company that deliberately stop selling to 170 countries for unknown reasons.
It’s not even comparable, he didn’t make something and it wasn’t good, he broke what was already good. Imagine an artist adding a track to an old album and it distorting the quality of the rest of the tracks. That’s what he did.
My tired brain read “Russian”. My bad
Oh, that’s my ignorance then. Woops.
Being judgemental of and prejudice against people based on where they’re born. I’m sure there’s a word for that…
I can’t read and lacked context. I can only apologise
If you don’t R&D you can’t tell the difference between what’s shit and what just looks like it’ll be shit.
Still no, because woke is something specific to the ideal of making people aware of real injustices.
Your original statement equates to “this is a deliberate attempt to push an agenda”
Even with replacing propaganda you still end up with “this promotes making people aware of real issues”. Which implies 1 - an acknowledgement of the fact that they’re real issues depicted (which such people usually contest) and 2 - that the author was aware of such issues in their effort to depict these things realistically.
In the end we all know that what they’re saying is “this shows me something that I don’t like because it doesn’t fit with my vision of the world”
People can be wrong about intent and about content, but people can’t be wrong about how it affects them and what messages they receive.
Not really a fair comparison when The Order 1886 dev had delusions of grandeur about his vision. About 30 fps, 1080p, repeatedly removing player agency, the QTEs everywhere, the letterbox fov that made people ill playing it, the terrible AI. The game being short was just the least of the games problems. As I recall people were done with the game even before 5 hours in.
If Helldivers is anything to go by all they need to do is say sorry and that they’ll do something on twitter and everyone will forgive and forget even if they don’t do anything.
Until players start learning their lesson and not trusting these companies in the first place nothing will change. They admitted this was over sales of the upcoming black ops and it’s multiplayer.
That’s just an endless cycle of adding new difficulties if you don’t address power creep or balance.
Raiding for better gear to raid harder stuff is a cycle we’ve seen a lot. A broad feeling is that dropping materials to give to a crafter to get your gear slows and diminishes the reward and doesn’t benefit things any. Honestly Wildstar’s crafting was some of the best crafting I’ve seen. It was moderately skill based, made better materials important, allowed for alternate material components and allowed you to tweak the stats. So if someone wanted a specific stat distribution they could get it made that way, but a better crafter might make the stats better.
I’m still looking for a game that actually makes crafting skill-based and a good crafter better than an average one given the same gear and level or w/e. Until that happens crafters will always be an after thought.
I apologise, I didn’t mean to insinuate that
I never said it was not correct.
I don’t have much personal experience with games where that is the case, but it’s usually pretty popular.
It’s actually pretty unpopular in most games with hard end game content. Raiders want the best gear to come from the hardest content to make their efforts valuable and to feel rewarded.
SAO has a different nature to it though making a new zone and eventual escape the reward rather than focusing on gear. It also presents the idea of rare resources being better for making gear, the sort of thing that would immediately be farmed for drops so the gear can be sold off. But it also sells us on the idea that crafting takes some level of skill or at least that the results are unique enough based on skill and materials that they’re usually aren’t duplicates for rare crafts.
That’s dumb and makes what they did all the more incredible. They would have done better if they’d done their own thing. Though it definitely wouldn’t have been as popular. But people will learn this as WotC goes back to wasting the IP rushing out flops.