★ 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! ★★Enjo...

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?

  • Madison_rogueOP
    15•1 year ago

    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.