Wow! I had to look that up to see what you mean. A stack of papers a foot tall = DX's script? And BG3's as tall as a person?? Impressive! I hope that means dialogue, too, and not just readables.
Found it: the photo is actually the Kingdom Come Deliverance script, not KCD2. It's a photo on X, I'm afraid:
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/rp...publishing-director-says-i-hope-they-do/ Now, amount of text doesn't mean quality, as anyone who's asked ChatGPT to write a script will know, but I hope we can keep good games out of the hands of gen AI for a bit longer!
I have no idea if it's just dialogue or all script: the article says it was printed for the cast, but it would certainly make a more impressive photo to print all the books too. Another thing that lengthens the script is allowing the player to select their gender - just about every line that addresses the character would be doubled, or tripled if you can choose 'they'
If you enjoyed T3 at least a little, I think you might like to try T1 and/or T2.
Thanks, I might give it a go at some point, but my games backlog currently includes BG3 (at least complete my second run), BG2, The Witcher 2 & 3, Divinity Original Sin 1 & 2 (I learnt these Larian people seem to make decent RPGs). I'm pretty sure you're right about the Ion Storm Austin - Looking Glass link. I used to hang around on the Ion Storm forums back in the day, and there was a lot of talk about Thief. And I know about the mixed reception of T:DS. Some blamed it being dumbed down for console, but also the changes they made to the Unreal engine were very buggy and put some serious limits onto DX2.
I think BG3 might be the straw that broke the camel's back in my case. I'm really going to not care so much about taking so many items, and also stop comparing useful items against my current inventory so much. Also won't be looking in every single container and on every shelf in RPG games moving forward. Similar to you, I'm just going to play the game!
My current character thinks rooting through all that junk is beneath him
