Is this game an anomaly or do people like cRPGs now?

[Coffee Break Hero]

I think this game sold/will sell at least 10 times more than the last big cRPGs combined...
I wonder if after people whom this is their first cRPG play this they go play other cRPGs, or do they go back to play action-adventure 3rd person games?

Are we going to see a glorious age of "BG3-likes" with lots of choices and customizations and consequences (like all the "souls like" of the past decade) or is this a false prophecy?

[Quillithe]

Originally posted by Coffee Break Hero:

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

Any replication will be a shallow misunderstood recreation.

If they do replicate it it’ll be a transmogrification of what makes Baldur’s Gate 3 good.

They’ll (the replicators) amplify all the wrong parts thinking that’s why it was popular then they’ll monetize them to hell with “dlc” (intentionally cut content) and battle passes and microtransaction.

The existence of BG3 is a proof you're wrong. you know it's a sequel. obviously you need some originality... otherwise it's just a remaster.
I'd like to believe not every game is doomed to become mass effect andromeda

That's a future that would make my face tired

[Chaosolous]

Originally posted by Coffee Break Hero:

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

Any replication will be a shallow misunderstood recreation.

If they do replicate it it’ll be a transmogrification of what makes Baldur’s Gate 3 good.

They’ll (the replicators) amplify all the wrong parts thinking that’s why it was popular then they’ll monetize them to hell with “dlc” (intentionally cut content) and battle passes and microtransaction.

The existence of BG3 is a proof you're wrong. you know it's a sequel. obviously you need some originality... otherwise it's just a remaster.
I'd like to believe not every game is doomed to become mass effect andromeda

Larian is a private company. They don’t answer to shareholders they answer to their customers.

If any AAA studio starts making CRPG’s you can bet your battle pass it’ll be a shallow monetized cesspool of greed.

Baldur’s Gate 3 was successful because Larian cares about having fun. AAA at this point cares about making money. Full stop.

[Xiwang]

Originally posted by Coffee Break Hero:

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its the dnd community, it has grow a lot since we were all freaks condemned by society as satanic cultist (and we pray to rngesus so they were not that wrong). its better this way i hope we get more crpgs.

[Aria Athena]

Originally posted by Coffee Break Hero:

Originally posted by Aria Athena:

Outer Worlds suffers from repetition and not well thought out story branches. Also fomr broken AI, but who cares. You go to a planet to get a thing and in order to acquire said thing you need to resolve a conflict between two factions that has nothing to do with anything. Then you do that 3 more times.

As far as the story goes, don't get me started. The game simply shat on most of my choices. I would be very pissed if it wasn't for how funny it was hearing the dialog doing a complete 180 and disregarding my choices completely.

yea but there was a lot of really cool RPG game design that could theoretically make a great game, in another universe, with better multi-narrative designers and writers

I think it was not their main team and usual writers, I still enjoyed it, but it kinda spoiled it for me during the end.

[Scheneighnay]

Originally posted by Aria Athena:

Originally posted by Coffee Break Hero:

yea but there was a lot of really cool RPG game design that could theoretically make a great game, in another universe, with better multi-narrative designers and writers

I think it was not their main team and usual writers, I still enjoyed it, but it kinda spoiled it for me during the end.

The people thought to be "their main team and usual writers" left the company a decade before Outer Worlds came out.

People were expecting New Vegas while forgetting New Vegas was a PS3 game.

[brainrotter]

Originally posted by ✙205🍉🐆→:

Originally posted by agentkido:

Why do we need porn games when u can just ♥♥♥♥ in bg3 lol

BG3 doesn't disclose 100% of the money spent on actors, better than The Witcher 3/cyberpunk but still worse than the Japanese voice acting

...how did you manage to jump from "haha vidya secks" to the tired old "mUh GlOrIoUs NiPpOn VoCaL cOrDs FoLdEd OvEr OnE tHoUsAnD tImEs!!!" circlejerk?

holy shoehorning Batman

[Empukris]

It is anomaly the timing is just right. If this game launched with another more casual games such as starfield, BG3 will probavly not see those numbers to be that high.

The main problem why most people dont want to touch crpg is the learning curve. FPS is easy but hard to master. Even trading card game like MTG or Yu Gi Oh still easier to learn than dnd. Most people didnt even pass the character creation of pathfinder. Neverwinter nights is used to be what people normally told me as the entry point of crpg. BG3 is exactly that entry point in 2023. They simplify a few things to make it easier for people to learn it. But most likely thats the reason why many BG1 and 2 diehard fans refuse to call this Baldurs Gate.

Rpg is popular but crpg is not. Will there be more crpg in the future? No i doubt it, it is a very niche genre. They probably will make it more action oriented like dragon age series or dragon dogma. Larian took a huge gamble and they are very lucky it is working.

[Quillithe]

Originally posted by Empukris:

It is anomaly the timing is just right. If this game launched with another more casual games such as starfield, BG3 will probavly not see those numbers to be that high.

The main problem why most people dont want to touch crpg is the learning curve. FPS is easy but hard to master. Even trading card game like MTG or Yu Gi Oh still easier to learn than dnd. Most people didnt even pass the character creation of pathfinder. Neverwinter nights is used to be what people normally told me as the entry point of crpg. BG3 is exactly that entry point in 2023. They simplify a few things to make it easier for people to learn it. But most likely thats the reason why many BG1 and 2 diehard fans refuse to call this Baldurs Gate.

Rpg is popular but crpg is not. Will there be more crpg in the future? No i doubt it, it is a very niche genre. They probably will make it more action oriented like dragon age series or dragon dogma. Larian took a huge gamble and they are very lucky it is working.

Honestly I really don't think 'many BG1 and 2 diehard fans refuse to call this Baldurs Gate.', it's just a few really noisy ones who complain about everything.

I'd be surprised if it's more than a tiny percentage of people that played Baldur's Gate 2.

And I definitely think CRPGs are sticking around. I don't think they'll explode in popularity but there's always a market for them, even if it's not generally a huge one.

[Ruffio]

Imho people didn't stop like crpgs... The industry more or less stopped make them to venture into more profitable venues to nickle and dime us...

[DontMisunderstand]

Originally posted by sick duck:

Originally posted by DontMisunderstand:

People really didn't notice that everything good about New Vegas was Fallout, not Obsidian, while everything bad about New Vegas was Obsidian, not Fallout. As much as I love New Vegas, handing them anything isn't going to be a good thing. Take one look at the abomination they created when given unlimited funding to do whatever they wanted with no oversight. Pillars of Eternity is arguably the worst video game ever made.

Lol, okay. Well you are entitled to your opinion, but I will still try to treat you as a human.

I think you'll find the only opinion I gave here was "I love New Vegas". If you're going to see me as subhuman for that, I completely understand.

[LUHLUH]

Originally posted by Lunar Fang:

I can't wait for the porn games like cyberpunk had, but Baldur's Sex 3.

Baldur's Gay

[Gaspard Savoureux]

Power of marketing and positive review bombing, simple as that

[paladin765]

Idk, this game certainly has me interested in playing more like it