Originally Posted by Warlocke
I think BG3 has the award locked in. This forum tends to attract people with strong criticisms, justified or not, but if you take a cursory glance at most other forums, like the Starfield subreddit, you find near unanimous love for BG3 and players lamenting that their game wasn�t more like this in some way or another.

To be fair, general forums tend to be populated by general gaming audiences. To me BG3 also mainly is a fun, good RPG -- however far from faultless. For the general public, I'll put this bluntly: They haven't been exposed to an RPG proper in several generations of hardware now, as all big studios have started making interactive Hollywood action movies with some light RPG features attached. Additionally they haven't been exposed to a tabletop conversion "proper" probably ever, seeing how Bioware's last was Neverwinter Nights. Such an audience is always going to react a bit differently to one that's been exposed to that kind of experience ever since.

When BG3 started out development, my personal wish that it would fill those gaps in the market that have existed since: One the one hand kickstarters, indies, and AAs, mostly harkening back to what's been lost. On the other end the few remaining AAA studios, increasingly also targeting people who don't actually like RPGs as they used to be (to put it that way). With all the recognition alongside the commercial success, this seems to come true. Question is, what happens from here.

Anyway, congrats. An actual RPG setting the gaming world on fire seemed impossible just a decade ago. And one not being ashamed of being one nor hiding it, placing every dice roll front and centre.

Last edited by Sven_; 08/12/23 04:49 AM.