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Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 Pre-Release Thread [EARLY ACCESS RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

luj1

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LESS T_T said:
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Daym he looks old. Swen after BG3:
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Lyric Suite said:
Having replayed Icewind Dale recently, it reminded me of one of the problems i have with modern gaymes, which is the lack of simple realism or earnestness if you will.

On one side you have the quality of the content, such as the combat system, the quality of the writing and so forth, but on the other there's the question of tone and intent which goes in tandem with that. There's really no "stylistic" priority, everything is as straightforward as it gets. Icewind Dale is meant to offer a fantasy gaming adventure and it does just that. Thus, the visuals are realistic, detailed and immersive. The music is cinematic and atmospheric. The voice acting is professional and on and on. The writing is pretty basic since this is a combat game but there's nothing in it that takes you out of the setting or that feels out of place. The whole product feels like the developers took a back seat to the game rather than the other way around.

A lot of modern games today seem to be very meta, where it is the setting or the gaming experience that takes a backseat instead, and the game is just a vehicle for the expression of a particular stylistic trend or personal interest of the developer. You are no longer flung into a world that is coherent, realistic or what have you, you are just experiencing a style or a genre and the setting and world is just window dressing.

If we look at Baldur's Gate, we already see a lot of questionable choices on the part of Bioware, the jokes, the pop culture references and all that garbage, but even so the approach is the same there as well. Will Larian take the same approach or will they go modern style, with non-realistic but stylistic visuals, with meta-writing that takes one out of the setting and so forth?
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Baldur's Gate's writing is retarded and literally every party member says movie quotes, sometimes on a regular basis. I think maybe you're thinking of BG2?
 
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glass blackbird said:
Lyric Suite said:
Having replayed Icewind Dale recently, it reminded me of one of the problems i have with modern gaymes, which is the lack of simple realism or earnestness if you will.

On one side you have the quality of the content, such as the combat system, the quality of the writing and so forth, but on the other there's the question of tone and intent which goes in tandem with that. There's really no "stylistic" priority, everything is as straightforward as it gets. Icewind Dale is meant to offer a fantasy gaming adventure and it does just that. Thus, the visuals are realistic, detailed and immersive. The music is cinematic and atmospheric. The voice acting is professional and on and on. The writing is pretty basic since this is a combat game but there's nothing in it that takes you out of the setting or that feels out of place. The whole product feels like the developers took a back seat to the game rather than the other way around.

A lot of modern games today seem to be very meta, where it is the setting or the gaming experience that takes a backseat instead, and the game is just a vehicle for the expression of a particular stylistic trend or personal interest of the developer. You are no longer flung into a world that is coherent, realistic or what have you, you are just experiencing a style or a genre and the setting and world is just window dressing.

If we look at Baldur's Gate, we already see a lot of questionable choices on the part of Bioware, the jokes, the pop culture references and all that garbage, but even so the approach is the same there as well. Will Larian take the same approach or will they go modern style, with non-realistic but stylistic visuals, with meta-writing that takes one out of the setting and so forth?
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Baldur's Gate's writing is retarded and literally every party member says movie quotes, sometimes on a regular basis. I think maybe you're thinking of BG2?
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dont take the rose tinted glasses off
 
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