I didn't. I made an overt comment about the other poster's behaviour and the pointlessness of rising to it. I disguised nothing.
You wrote:
and you know this, and are being facetious.
I don't really need to do any of that, because you already know this, and if I try, you will just continue to be flippant and pedantic for the sake of being so, without really engaging with the topic in a meaningful way.... and I know that you are capable of being far better than that, Ragnarok, so it would serve neither of us to feed that aspect of your behaviour.
There is a certain level of antagonism here, to be specific - prejudice and dismissive commentary. By disguising I meant that it wasn't a blunt disagreement, but still you belittled another user's commentary just because he didn't write a PHD degree level of commentary and analysis and referred to the fundamental perceptional concepts. If you didn't mean it, I get it, but words speak for themselves and I am not that mad and delusional yet to make a statement out of nowhere, even if you want to expose me as such.
Nothing, unless what you're trying to make is a new story. Which they are.
Why would making a new story lose anything by drawing inspiration from successful projects and building on that legacy? Please, elaborate.
The extremely long laundry list of near-identical elements copied wholesale like a full-body transplant across to BG3 from D:os2, with barely a coat of paint slapped on them.
Those being?
Before you answer, I'll try myself! There is a ship in the DOS2 and there is a Nautiloid in BG3. Both are moving vessels with all the underlying consequences of being vessels. But there are differences as well:
- One if flying and one is sailing. (rule of cool)
- One is a known human environment, while the other is an alien environment (more interesting to explore, visually more thought-provoking)
- In the DOS2 case there is a clear social message (separatism, racism, fear of those different) from the start while BG3 intro is structured more like an adventure with a discernible evil (mind flayers) posing threat to MC.
Those are just few things that come to my mind, they are not to prove you wrong or anything, but my take. I am eager to hear yours.
It's not; the list is one of purely objective, academic facts about the two games' intro sequences.
But surely your opinion on those facts is subjective, isn't it?
Or please, tell me, how question about someone's liking can be objective? My question was HOW subjective is it, because it clearly is
Can you please try to prove otherwise?
Once again, I only write this because I don't want my questions and argument to fall under the unnecessary pressure you are exerting by long reads, using one POV in a dismissive manner to the other and other "tools".
I'm not satisfied with being fed a microwaved, lightly-reseasoned bowl of yester-year's gruel as the entrée to what is supposed to be a new experience. If you ARE okay with that, that's fine for you; I'm not.
I am not okay with being fed a gruel!
Who is?
Why do you write this conclusion as if everyone sees the world with your eyes? I just don't see the blatant copy pasting you are talking about, this is my vision and the vision of some others probably. You were acting in the convo with Rag like he knows deep in his heart that your perception of things is something universal right and just doesn't want to admit it like he is some stubborn child or something, lol. You were denying him his own vision and mentioning some language barrier at the same time... Anyway, I respect your opinion and that was my last post on the matter, even though I'd like to read your answer. Lets channel our frustration somewhere else, shall we?
