While Baldur’s Gate 3 is being widely celebrated by fans and developers alike, some are panicking that this could set new expectations from fans. Good.

  • NotInTheFace
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    471 year ago

    Honestly, nowadays it feels more like an indie studio is more of an indicator of quality than AAA. Most of the games I buy and enjoy are indie/small studios.

    • Goronmon
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      131 year ago

      Honestly, nowadays it feels more like an indie studio is more of an indicator of quality than AAA. Most of the games I buy and enjoy are indie/small studios.

      Larian is about as indie/small as Bethesda was when Skyrim released.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      AAA games are very rarely as innovative as indie games, it’s all just the same rehashed stuff I feel like. Just whatever is “safe”.

      So, I very much agree, the typical AAA stuff from studios like EA, Ubisoft, etc. Don’t interest me.

      Although maybe Starfield will be interesting, we’ll see. I didn’t really like Fallout 4 though, I wished the RPGs were a bit more like the more old school ones lol.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’m willing to be surprised by it, but I’m not optimistic for Starfield. What I’ve seen of it so far looks mainly like they grafted chunks of No Man’s Sky onto a Bethesda Fallout game and are trying hard to pitch it as The Next Big Thing. Frankly, I’d much rather have the next mainline Elder Scrolls game instead, but at this rate I’m going to be 40 before I get to play a sequel to a game that came out in my 20s.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            I’m fairness, incomplete chunks is all that exists of Star Citizen.

            Well, that and a whaling operation on the scale of Victorian England’s.

            • @[email protected]
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              41 year ago

              I am in the SC club and it’s a glitchy, broken, incomplete mess while also being one of the coolest gaming experiences I’ve ever had when it works.

              • @[email protected]
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                31 year ago

                About $500 of the ~$600 million they’ve raised is mine, dating from the original crowdfunding campaigns and the first year or two of development. I still check in every year or two to see if they’re any closer to having a complete game, and every time I do, I come away with the sense that they’ve put vastly more effort into developing and selling spaceship JPEGs than they have into making the game those spaceships are supposed to be used in.

                • @[email protected]
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                  31 year ago

                  Whenever I play I just assume there’s a reason no one else has tried to make star citizen before. Though they def have a problem with management and scope creep though

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          I saw a tier list meme that some teenager made on Discord of every game they’d ever played. You know what didn’t appear once on the list? Not a single Grand Theft Auto game nor a single Elder Scrolls game. I asked them why and they said because GTA5 and Skyrim are “old”

          They’re taking so long between releases now that they missed an entire generation of gamers

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            because it’s more profitable to re-release those games over and over again and sell shark cards