*rant on*
I think the people are fed up.
The genre is stuck in the 90s and 20 year old technolgical limitations are selled as core mechanics.
Nostalgia is strong, people buy Divinity and Pillars of Eternity, nice games, but gameplay can be a hassle.
Divinity2 and Pillers of Eternity2 have bad sales, to fresh are the memories.
BG3 will never be a new Gold "Standard" for a whole Genre because it looks backwards the whole time.
*rant of*
Hope the game sells good, i like the Studio. Funny the best game for me is Divinity 2 Ego Draconis
DOS2 had great sales. It sold millions of copies.
I am not in agreement that BG3 looks backwards. It is an evolution of the genre - the system its based on - the Divinity Engine - won Universal Acclaim.
BG1 and 2 with its RTWP systems are the deprecated systems. Bg1 was RTWP because that's all they had the budget for. Its a cheap system.
If talking about technical things like graphics and engine. BG3 have improved graphics from DOS2. BG3 is at least slightly better graphics then DOS2.
Well and look at me did DOS1 or DOS2 ever bring me to the forums? No have never been DOS fan and because it is Dungeons Dragons and Baldurs Gate 3.
At the same time in the thread I created "What other games to play then BG3"... and I have proved I even like MMO:S.
BG3 engine beats DOS 2 ,but nothing out there that I know of beats UNREAL 5 engine. Cyberpunk Ray tracing? Unreal 5 can do same effects as Ray tracing with new technology and clearly less system requirements. UNREAL 5 engine beats BG3 engine but BG3 is towards end of it production line to change to UNREAL 5 now would be wrong and create long time delay and lets keep the current engine and full release at August 2023. BG3 will have enough good graphics though if speak of best engine I would say Unreal 5 engine is that.
Only MMO:s use Unreal 5? No lots of upcoming single player games will use the very powerful Unreal 5 engine and even the next Witcher whenever that will be released will use Unreal 5 engine at least that is the current plan.
"Both Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher series were developed on an in-house game engine called RED Engine. Starting with The Witcher 4, CD Projekt RED will switch to Unreal Engine 5, collaborating with Epic Games."
