• eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    I was incredibly tempted to pre-order Starfield. Everything about it should be right up my alley. I love Sci-fi, space and all things related. But I learned my lesson after pre-ordering Diablo 4. I decided to try out the pirated version shortly after release and was so disappointed and glad I didn’t buy it. I dropped it after a few hours and had no desire to play it after that.

    Also coming into it straight after playing Baldur’s Gate 3 made it look so dated. The plastic doll looking NPC’s and animations, boring dialogue and writing. I’m not even that into fantasy/D&D type settings and BG3 drew me in for many hours.

    I really hope someone makes a game as good as BG3 but set in space, similar to Mass Effect etc.

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      1 year ago

      The real reason behind anti-piracy efforts: They might find out our software sucks without having to buy it to figure that out.

      /s. Sorta.

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      Yeah, similar for me. On one had, the idea of a space based “Skyrim” type game sounded pretty cool.

      On the other hand, yet another Bethesda “skyrim/fallout” type of game has been overdone without much innovation by Bethesda. So my hopes were quite tempered.

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      I think BG3 is making a lot of normal quality games look really bad this year. Like putting a super model in a picture of normally okay people.

      That said BG3’s true innovation was literally just putting the work in. They didn’t make anything truly new, they just did everything game developers have learned in the last 40 years to a very high standard.

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        The one thing I would argue that is a bit “new” is that they had a design paradigm similar to immersive sims on their systems, and that is not so common on these kind of top down rpg.

        But yeah, the real “innovation” was just making an actually polished game.

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      1 year ago

      I feel exactly the same. DND and fantasy settings aren’t my thing, but I still enjoyed the heck out of BG3 for the story and characters. If Larian made a sci fi game that would be amazing.

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      1 year ago

      I just started BG3, it feels like a modern Dragon Age, Mass Effect with serious focus on the RPG elements. The posing and character models aren’t a leap like the Witcher 3, but the voice acting is top notch

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      1 year ago

      I mean there is Rogue Trader. Not BG3 level, but what I’ve heard it is pretty good.