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

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What he is saying doesn't make sense to me. You can do whatever you want to either game to make them newer and better (or worse). If BG3 was going to be just like BG, then he might have a point. But it is already going to be modernized, different engine, different camera angle, updated combat so melees don't just auto attack all day, etc.. When you change all those things, it doesn't even matter if you are making BG3 or NWN3. The result is a whole new game.
 
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I assume he means that people will compare the game to BG2, which is a harder bar to clear than if people had to compare it to the snoozefest that is the NWN2 OC
 

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? The "original crew" didn't go for BG3 because hardly any of them even work at Bioware any more or in the industry itself and Bioware has their own thing with Dragon Age, they don't need BG.
 

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? The "original crew" didn't go for BG3 because hardly any of them even work at Bioware any more or in the industry itself and Bioware has their own thing with Dragon Age, they don't need BG.

I think he means back in the early 2000s.
 

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I think he means back in the early 2000s.

In that case the reason was because they finished the story in the final expansion because the engine was too old for another full-fledged sequel and they were all-in on Neverwinter which had been in development since 1997.
 
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As with most irrelevant generalist commentators, he is clearly uninformed.

Watching him play BG and NWN2 is an exercise in tedium, too. Most of his commentary is "I'm not sure if...", "I can't remember how...", "I think you can..." etc.

Practically everything he says is a half-thought. And in a high-pitched voice, too.
 
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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
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Alas, some peasants are not munchkins and they simply play games without full knowledge of everything in them!
FOR SHAME
 
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In point of fact, he "reviews" them. He gives them scores. He gave NWN2 OC 4/5. If you are going to review a game, you should have knowledge of it that exceeds "a peasant" (as you put it) or a casual.

One doesn't need to go into technical depth (that's my job), but at least say something. At least make a few declarative statements instead of these half-assed remarks.

Also, he tries to sell every game he reviews.
 
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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
In point of fact, he "reviews" them. He gives them scores. He gave NWN2 OC 4/5. If you are going to review a game, you should have knowledge of it that exceeds "a peasant" (as you put it) or a casual.

One doesn't need to go into technical depth (that's my job), but at least saying something. At least make a few declarative statements instead of these half-assed remarks. What a cuck.

Also, he tries to sell every game he reviews.

I haven't read or watched anything by him, but these are games with a LOT of rules - one can easily forget stuff or be unsure imo
 
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I haven't read or watched anything by him, but these are games with a LOT of rules - one can easily forget stuff or be unsure imo

You don't need to delve into the ruleset in order to make declarative statements on a game. At the end of the review, he summed up NWN2 by referring to its OST, its visuals and its cutscenes. Low-brow, right thar.
 
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I don't write for mobs.

Yet you claim millions of sheeple flock to your blog to read about the dense placement of objects in NWN Daggerdale every day. Being elite is such a mass phenomenon nowadays it seems.
 

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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
I haven't read or watched anything by him, but these are games with a LOT of rules - one can easily forget stuff or be unsure imo

You don't need to delve into the ruleset in order to make declarative statements on a game. At the end of the review, he summed up NWN2 by referring to its OST, its visuals and its cutscenes. Low-brow, right thar.

In point of fact, he "reviews" them. He gives them scores. He gave NWN2 OC 4/5. If you are going to review a game, you should have knowledge of it that exceeds "a peasant" (as you put it) or a casual.

One doesn't need to go into technical depth (that's my job), but at least say something. At least make a few declarative statements instead of these half-assed remarks.

Also, he tries to sell every game he reviews.

I don't disagree, but there's something hysterical (yet magnificent) about anyone criticizing Matt Barton for insufficient autism.
 

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