Originally Posted by Wiborg Sturmfels
Originally Posted by Emrikol
"Baldur's Gate" means nothing to newer gamers, and it doesn't mean to plenty of others (if not a massive majority of others) what it means to the niche group that holds the game so high.


Well, if "Baldur´s Gate" means nothing to newer games then they can log out of the forum and wait until the game is out because it doesn't matter what it looks like anyway.

Because you saying this, are you able to quantify the "plenty of others" or "niche group"?


Originally Posted by Emrikol
95% of the game WILL change or be added or removed.


Are you an official Larian Studios employee who makes decisions about the game or is that just a personal "guess" of you?


The second quote was not mine. As to the first...

I suspect an overwhelming number of those who find BG2 the apex of RPGs are roughly 32-38 years of age (born between 82-88), based on a premise (which certainly could be wrong) that our formative years (roughly 10-16) are the most impactful. Most (by a large margin I suspect) born after 88 probably never even played BG1&2, with there being so many more 'modern' alternatives like EverQuest. Most (by a large margin I suspect) born before 82 had plenty of previous games to fill the sacred slot of 'best game ever' (e.g. table top D&D). So, if the range of possible gamers who might play BG is (say) 10 to 70, that 7 year range of 32-38 are a small minority. I could certainly be off by these figures a bit, but I see no reason to suspect that many gamers younger than 32 or older than 38 hold BG1&2 so high. Hence, the niche.