Originally Posted by Gray Ghost
So speaking as someone who really just doesn't like this game, each individual act of this game is as large or larger than many other games. As an example Tyranny, by Obsidian. One run of that game is probably equivalent to a run of just act 3.
Okay but Tyranny is not a AAA game and nobody claimed it was large or complex.

Originally Posted by Gray Ghost
The game also has to account for not just dialogue choices, but a number of outside dialogue actions that most crpgs don't try to account for, such as if you pickpocketted something, if you straight up stole it openly, if you've witnessed one or another event first, what direction you may have approached from, etc.
Skyrim was doing that back in 2011. It even has a 'complex' system whereby crimes in one hold are not counted as crimes in the other holds. Things like this are commonplace in these sort of games, Larian is doing nothing out of the ordinary.


Originally Posted by Gray Ghost
However I do think that claiming this isn't a BIG game is just factually wrong. Any game you can reasonably spend 70-80 hours on before finishing it is a big game.
I don't disagree with your 70-80 hours figure but any such figure is highly dependent on how one plays the game and the figure would be a lot lower on a second run. In any case I am using 'big' in relation to the size and number of the maps, number of NPCs in the game etc.

Last edited by Jordaker; 18/07/24 06:23 PM.