Age of Empires 2 DE??? I bought it on sale for about 1/4 of what I’d usually spend on a night out just guzzling toxic substances… For a game that reuses the same maps/buildings over and over, it somehow has more diversity and imagination in every level than BG3 does in all its fights put together.
It’s really a masterpiece of imaginative design – limited resources, but they knock it out of the park with every level. Every one of the locations is ‘epic’, yet they just lean on some simple scripting and the same assets…
It just shows you. You can throw 300 people at a turd, but that particular organic matter remains the same…
Anyway, BG3 will be one of the better ‘yokes’ that falls out of the toilet of 2023 ‘entertainment’, in all its – lets be frank – mollycoddled, vacuous plop-plop-flushery.
AI is looking good though. Maybe it will advance to the point where talented writers can once again get their ‘controversial’ material out there without the zombie-gate-keepers saying ‘no’, and once again we’ll have proper stories…
