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The Eldritch Rain Eldritchness @rain@an.eldritch.gift
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I'm like, of course BG3 is the new standard for CRPGs, why would it not be? It is bloody amazing!

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RinguPingu @RinguPingu@masto.ai
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@rain Because setting impossibly high standards for games is unhealthy for the industry ​:sadturtle:​
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The Eldritch Rain Eldritchness @rain@an.eldritch.gift
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@RinguPingu I dunno, I feel like high standards should be placed on games from the giants in the industry.
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RinguPingu @RinguPingu@masto.ai
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@rain Expecting games of high quality is not the same as expecting something like BG3. BG3 took 6-ish years to develop for a team of ~400 people (not including outsourcing partners), who were working with the specialized tools and knowledge to make this exact game from having developed Divinity: Original Sin and it's sequel (plus their respective Definitive Editions).
The game is the product of a perfect storm of development circumstances that most devs can only dream of.
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The Eldritch Rain Eldritchness @rain@an.eldritch.gift
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@RinguPingu Hmm, maybe you're right! I mean, having BG3 as a standard is a little bit unfair when the giants can't even hit DivOS2 levels of quality.
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RinguPingu @RinguPingu@masto.ai
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@rain this Twitter thread goes into some detail about what I described (and is where I took the gist of this argument from), it's worth a read:
twitter.com/WritNelson/status/1677632079792668673
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The Eldritch Rain Eldritchness @rain@an.eldritch.gift
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@RinguPingu I mean, that thread essentially asks for the bar not to be raised. Regardless of wants though, the bar has been raised, at least in the minds of consumers. I don't think it is unreasonable to ask for high quality, when most RPGs from larger studios seem mediocre at best.
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The Eldritch Rain Eldritchness @rain@an.eldritch.gift
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@RinguPingu something something www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-WlEgn_pig
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