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?
Setting appropriate expectations for one’s own work is one thing, but I’ll never understand why some people feel the need to deride others for exceeding them.
Because they don’t want to be held to the new standard, obviously. They’re comfortable and are preemptively taking offense at the idea of having to do more in the future. Like the normal kids who want to punch down the one overachiever who reminds the teacher to assign homework.
But this isn’t a homework assignment; these are businesses competing for consumer dollars, and Larian is winning with their investment into a happy team and good product.
Yes, that’s more or less my point. These preemptive complaints needlessly frame it as a competition, and go on to demonstrate bad sportsmanship in that imaginary competition. They could be praising everyone who worked on this masterpiece, and take it as inspiration for their own work, but they’ve chosen instead to dampen everyone else’s excitement about it. It’s a jerk move.
They also do us a disservice by presuming that an unusually high production budget is what we will come to expect, rather than basics like a good story, or simply avoiding exploitive garbage like microtransactions, DRM, and online-only requirements.
I wish they would just let Larian have their glory. Congratulate them, even. It was well earned.
Who is doing this?
The video kinda of dances around the subject, but I didn’t see anything specific.
Because they don’t want their next rpg compared to bg3. Many of them know they’re working on titles that won’t be as good, and we’re never intended to be as large in scope and depth as bg3, but they’ll be compared to it now.
Kinda similar to how no one makes GTA-ish games anymore because no one could compete with Rockstar on open world man takes on city type games. Now studios are hesitant to stand in the same arena as BG3 because it’s just such a great product