Larian’s Baldur’s Gate 3 is poised to be one of the biggest cinematic role-playing games in years & many devs are criticizing the scale/scope of it!
Interesting video describing various developers’ take on the game. Is it a genre-defining game or not?
I mean for one the DnD mechanics are perfect, the character models are phenomenal, this game deserves the amazing descriptor. But I don’t really want to see a bunch of other studios scramble to implement these features because they’ll all miss the mark. Its not the futa mommies we made along the way, its not the open quests you can solve however you want, its all of it together. These studios will grab one part and be like “why didn’t they like my cock n balls?” It wasn’t about the cock n balls.
I doubt a lot of them will. Take Bungie for instance. One of their huge talking points is over-delivering to the player base, and they use the Forsaken expansion as the example. Bungie ponied up a lot of content for the expansion to the point where it became the player base’s expectation that the studio would deliver that amount of content every single expansion. BG3 would definitely be in the category of over-delivery by Bungie’s standard, however Larian doesn’t seem to care. They only cared about delivering a really great product to gamers.
Quite frankly, it’s refreshing to see Larian deliver a game like BG3. For years other studios have consistently shaved off content, pulled up paywalls, or locked content behind micro-transactions or sparsely laden DLCs. I find BD3 refreshing, and if it does change the industry, good.
However I don’t think that will happen…especially with games published by EA, Activision, and Bungie (Sony). These studios only really care about enriching themselves, and will consistently continue to deliver products that contain the least amount of content they can get away with.
EDIT
Changed BD3 to BG3.
…BD3?
Fuck…I meant BG3
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I mean…this part is certainly a lot of it. Very few RPGs allow you to combine systems the way that Larian’s games do, in a way that approximates a tabletop setting’s creativity.
I love how universal it all is.
The element system has always been something so simple but they do so well.
Imagine seeing fire and putting water on it, and it actually puts out the fire. Ground breaking.
Not to mention the physics engine, fire over there? Push someone into it, distance is based on your strength, whouda thunk!
Oh yeah defenstrating unsuspecting enemies is my most powerful weapon.
Yeah! I don’t want other companies to remake Baldur’s Gate 3 because it’s a great game, I want other studios to put the amount of polish that BG3 has into their own games.
Hang on is that a spoiler or am I too optimistic?
You can be whoever you want to be. I don’t know yet who you will meet though.
This morning I would not have expected an item on my todo list saying “check if Karlach has a dick”
You can make your character have whatever genitalia you want, no matter what body you choose. So you can have a trans character mid transition basically.