People apparently hating on Throne of Bhaal is news to me, honestly.
I never particualrly cared what "people" think, but yeah my impression of ToB was always similar to "Return of the Jedi" - a bad campaign, which only saving grace is that it wraps up an otherwise great Trilogy.
Originally Posted by Annyliese
As of late, people seem to be under the impression that CRPGs rival large games in scale, but they simply don't.
That's also a self-fulfilling prophecy, with no really attractive cRPGs being made since late 90s/early 2000s. Larian is the first one to really attempt mainstream cRPGs, as other "competition" is working withing far too low of a budget to break into the wider market, or like Bioware/CDPR went more for narrative action games with a small touch of RPG. Most of cRPG audience will be people who play games since 90s and that will be a niche audience - most people move on with their lives and got different hobbies over time. I must say, within certain demographic whenever I meet someone in their 30s who used to game, Baldur's Gate 2 pops up very often as "the game". That said being Polish the demographic I know is also very specific and favourable to PC gaming and RPGs.
