Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Is BG3 bad for the genre?

I've never streamed anything. It sounds like a particular form of custom difficulty hell that I'd have particular trouble enduring - like hearing my own voice on an answering machine or something lol. I mean you think my writing is long winded and rambling and forgettable, just put a camera in my face and watch me shut the hell up immediately hehe. I'd accidentally burn myself in effigy from pure embarrassment, before even figuring out how the tech works probably. I have watched streams though, and found the BG3 streams quite entertaining.

I'm old enough that video cameras and microphones that fit into one's pocket are still a complete novelty, and definitely not my comfort zone. It's unfortunate (for my way of being at least) because modern communication is probably better handled with visual support and voice to humanize the pathos and such. Also many media consumers these days aren't willing to pay for anything that doesn't have a time signature, and even stuff with a time signature is trending that way. Like take image and text, and peeps now expect short form video and music to also be totally free, as if it were free to create. Labours of love I guess, in most people's estimation, even though it's some of the hardest stuff to do, and to do well.

I gather it's much more direct and easier to share a brief video, and I admire people who can hang with that, and who know how to do it well. I can't. A director would know when to cut. A writer would know when to stop. An actor would hit their marks and wouldn't flub their lines. I'm none of those.

You would never get a hot takes video out of me that wasn't mainly and mostly about my dogs, cause I just won't give google or meta or amazon any more of myself than that. That's cause I trust google and meta and amazon about as much as I trust the sound of my own recorded voice played back for me sometimes. Discord is a 'place to talk' but I'd still prefer to play pen pal with it, at a one step remove, writing letters that are likely to get lost with time. Even if it means I will be perpetually giving bits rather than receiving them, no view counts or anything like that to fret off. The whole reason I like these boards is because they are the Larian boards, without intermediaries, and don't need to be everything else in the world all ay the same time coming at me. For everything else, there's everything else hehe. All that wealth of data is also probably getting crunched into AIs as we speak, and the endgame is likely to replace us all with robot dopelgangers at the earliest possible opportunity, so that also gives me pause.

I do love this game though! I thought that was pretty clear!

I think it's an amusing allegory for our times, and it hit at just the right time for me, when my previous life in Barbecue Technologies got upended. You know, when the world shut down. BG3 was born of the plague times for me, and I will be forever grateful that it exists, so my views on it are colored by that. It was a solace and a comfort in trying times, and this it remains. It doesn't really have to keep justifying itself for me. I already love it, for what it's already given, though because I love it, I want it to succede and live well and makes new friends. And to single handedly save Dungeons & Dragons again, like BG1 and BG2 did the last time around, cause that would be clutch!