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?
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.