Originally Posted by Elessaria666
Originally Posted by Etruscan
The insinuation that you have to dumb down DnD to appeal to a broader audience does not seem to make sense to me, given the huge rise in popularity of the PnP game.
Go to SteamDB and compare pre-release sales, concurrency figures and average playtime for BG3 and Solasta and you have your answer. It might not make sense to you but it's an out-and-out fact of the modern gaming genre. The PnP game may have increased its following significantly, but computer gaming has exploded in the last 10 years and now for the first time console players exceed PC players.

I've not seen a single person argue anywhere that Solasta isn't a much better, truer adaptation of the DnD ruleset to a cRPG format than BG3. It even has higher ratings from its players than BG3, probably as a direct result.

But BG3 has sold more copies, more people who bought it played it, they played it for longer, and are still playing it. Of couse that's an over-simplified perspective, but it's compelling all the same...

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There's something weird about those numbers and I'm guessing it has something to do with the way Tactical Adventures shares info with steam. I got onto steamdb to see if the numbers changed. After all, the spring patch just came out, people are asking for help with the new quests so someone is playing. But the average didn't go up. I mean I would believe the numbers are sound if the median was zero and the average only had a mild uptick but the fact that the numbers didn't move at all tells me that there is some sort of flaw in the way that website garners information.

Or perhaps everyone is like me -- buy on GoG, turn off telemetry and use your firewall to prevent the program from accessing the internet . . .

But sure, BG3 is going to have bigger numbers. Just as Star Wars Episode 12 will have bigger numbers than will some indy sci flix. Larian is huge multi-national company and this is the flagship IP of DnD CRPGs.

Right now I don't there is a way to avoid the conclusion that BG has the better story and graphics and Solasta has the better game play. And this thread is about the game mechanics and not about the graphics and story.