There are very few other rog devs at Larian's level. Certainly no AA ones. Bio, Obsidian, and the Twitcher devs are the only ones that come to mind. Diablo creators if you count that.
BioWare’s sun has set. Everybody who made their old games successful jumped ship a while ago. Obsidian is now owned by Microsoft, so will see how that works out. Ditto for Bethesda. CDPR are okay at making video games but bad at making RPGs, in my opinion. Blizzard doesn’t even make games anymore. They make monetization systems built around dopamine traps.
Kind of a dry cycle for RPG development, so I’m very appreciative that Larian are doing what they are doing.
Fair enough, as long as you acknowledge this is subjective opinion. For me, games like Dragon Age, Starfield, the Witcher, and most games Obsidian makes are absolutely RPGs, and very good and fun RPGs at that. Unfortunately for me, none of them involve the Forgotten Realms setting.
Sure. With the exception of CDPR, my comments were more about the states of the studios and the games that are being made now rather than what they’ve made in the past.
