General gaming talk

[Enrico_sw]

3 hours ago, SympathysSilhouette said:

If you are interested in some of the background about the controversy (mostly other devs and game critics complaining about the ambition and scope of BG3) then this IGN video gives you some basic idea.

 

https://www.ign.com/videos/baldurs-gate-3-is-causing-some-developers-to-panic

 

Another proof of the benefits of competition. Gamers are the best because they only reward good work (unlike other types of customers).

 

This shows the divide between 2 models :

a) big studios buying each other to become one big mob, milk the shit out of us and force-feed woke propaganda to lick the boots of woke journos/influencers

b) medium studios (aka the competitive fringe), working hard, fostering competition and focusing on one thing: providing good games

 

Competition is king. Long live market economies!

[Enrico_sw]

PS: I'm surprised that IGN didn't defend big studios for once... good for them! (or maybe it's the competition of youtubers that make them stop shilling for big studios)

[Enrico_sw]

2 minutes ago, Cult Icon said:

It looks well made but I think a disadvantage is that it is turn based, a lot of people aren't into that so much.  

 

I don't know much about the gameplay, but I want to try. I hear only good feedbacks for the moment.

[Enrico_sw]

It's getting more and more interesting. The toxic big studios and some of the press are getting scared

 

Soon, they will call the fans toxic or Russian troll bots... we know these cheap tactics (Hollywoke use them all the time and gaming studios copied them )

 

 

[SympathysSilhouette]

17 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

 

how is the story of the game?

 

Great so far. Around 32 hours into my playthrough and still in act one (there are three acts total). I think I've seen people who have finished it with most of the side-quests done too saying it takes around 170 hours!

[SympathysSilhouette]

17 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

It looks well made but I think a disadvantage is that it is turn based, a lot of people aren't into that so much.  

 

They have had consistently great numbers on Steam, with up to 850K concurrent players. They seem to be breaking through to non CRPG gamers as well.

[SympathysSilhouette]

9 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

It's getting more and more interesting. The toxic big studios and some of the press are getting scared

 

Soon, they will call the fans toxic or Russian troll bots... we know these cheap tactics (Hollywoke use them all the time and gaming studios copied them )

 

 

 

So many lies told about the development that some people attached to Larian have felt compelled to react.

One of the big ones was the claim that Wizards of the Coast had paid Larian to develop the game.

Obviously it is the other way around. Larian had to pay Wizards of the Coast a licensing fee to use its IP for Baldur's Gate 3.

 

There is also something hilarious about much bigger studios pointing out Larian's supposedly huge 400 person staff. Like Activision Blizzard has over 17000 people working for them! That's over 42x more in terms of staff than Larian.

I guess the difference is that Larian has most of those folks working on making the best game possible whereas Activision Blizzard and other big studios are more focused on squeezing every penny from their customers.

[SympathysSilhouette]

17 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

I don't know much about the gameplay, but I want to try. I hear only good feedbacks for the moment.

 

If you've played Divinity Original Sin II, it's a lot like that gameplay wise. Though not exactly the same. Spells are somewhat different, also it uses the environment too a lot but in a different way than D:OSII.

[SympathysSilhouette]

17 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

PS: I'm surprised that IGN didn't defend big studios for once... good for them! (or maybe it's the competition of youtubers that make them stop shilling for big studios)

 

I think there has been a backlash in general to other devs attacking Larian for having made a good game. It is insane too!

Imagine if a director got mad if another director put out a good film? Only in game development can you even have something this idiotic happening.

[Cult Icon]

 

[SympathysSilhouette]

https://wccftech.com/baldurs-gate-3-highest-rated-pc-game-ever/

 

The insanely glowing reviews that it has gotten across the board is truly amazing.

[Enrico_sw]

^ I bought it today and now I have to wait 8 hours to download it. Why is the Internet so slow?

[Enrico_sw]

It's the good timing, because I just finished Jedi Survivor a couple of days ago (great game BTW! One of the best SW games IMO)

[SympathysSilhouette]

9 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

^ I bought it today and now I have to wait 8 hours to download it. Why is the Internet so slow?

 

I think they almost broke Steam on launch day because so many people were downloading it at the same time.

 

[Cult Icon]

 

This is one of the strangest (and funniest) sexual encounters in W1.

 

It would shock me if all 25 or so romances made it to the remake.

[Anasxs]

Better in another post

[SympathysSilhouette]

The anti-BG3 backlash is kind of reminding me of the anti-Andor sentiment.

 

Both examples of large groups of people being angry at something that is very good.

[Enrico_sw]

^ I'm not sure I follow you.

 

In the case of Disney Star Wars, fans got really angry at Kathleen Kennedy and her team whose obsession was gender, race and identity... to the detriment of good story telling. Maybe Andor is good, but Miss Kennedy and her goons have tainted Disney SW.

 

In the case of BG3, I don't understand the backlash. This game is great (the only complaint one may have are some minor technical problems). I'm starting to think that the campaign is orchestrated by other big studios to sabotage the competition

[Enrico_sw]

Just now, Enrico_sw said:

I'm starting to think that the campaign is orchestrated by other big studios to sabotage the competition

(these are called media influence campaigns, some companies are specialised in reputation destruction on social media).

[Enrico_sw]

The game is really really good.