that's cuteClearly, full voiceover is absolutely necessary for an RPG to sell nowadays. Good thing Deadfire had it. WotR will certainly flop since it only has partial VO.
A great game, but not really a typical cRPG. Even BG3 has half the peak D:OS2 has. D:OS2 has that appeal where someone's girlfriend who's not really into games would end up playing coop with them and inflate the player numbers that PoE, PF or even BG3 don't. That's my take on it anyway.that's cuteClearly, full voiceover is absolutely necessary for an RPG to sell nowadays. Good thing Deadfire had it. WotR will certainly flop since it only has partial VO.
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Doesn't matter, EA games sell like mad nowadays. You'd expect something like BG3 to have a higher peak than D:OS2 since it's a much bigger name, EA release or not.
That's what Soyer said at a game dev conference. He said they were "forced" to do it since D:OS2 set a new standard with it.
It's not a typical cRPG because uhh... reasons!
It was never in a real EA, only backers could play it. BG3 EA is available for everyone.
I bought it during EA you retardIt was never in a real EA, only backers could play it. BG3 EA is available for everyone.
I don't recall older cRPGs putting so much emphasis on environmental combat or coop.It's not a typical cRPG because uhh... reasons!
It's closer to older cRPGs than rtwp trash is lmao
Yeah, from Larian's website as a "late PayPal backer". It wasn't available for purchase on Steam until the game's launch. Compare that to BG3 where EA launched on Steam day 1 and had a huge ass banner on the store and all.
instead of making this post you could have just went to a search engine and not looked stupid
Sorry, I was clearly wrong. I can't really believe that the peak on actual launch was 100k higher than on EA launch. What the fuck happened there.
Outside of the codex it is used in a more restricted fashion, but that typically includes so-called 'blobbers'. It tends to exclude action-oriented RPGs. I assume it's because the former tends to be more mechanically heavier than the latter.
Probably nowhere. As I see it the term lost relevancy long, long time ago. It used to differentiate computer RPGs since back in the 70s and 80s vast majority of RPG fans played table tops.
That's the entire point. Sawyer claimed that after D:OS2, there is an expectation that RPGs must have full VO and Deadfire wouldn't sell without it. WotR doesn't have it, yet judging by the numbers we have, it did much better than Kingmaker and Deadfire and even eclipsed PoE1. Clearly full VO is not required, and it won't save your game if the base is shit either.
They're referred to as "ttrpgs"
The difference isn't anywhere near as pronounced. Codex has a heavily skewed view as to how popular tabletop RPGs are.
You can't really compare sales data that are years apart, the market grows too rapidly.That's the entire point. Sawyer claimed that after D:OS2, there is an expectation that RPGs must have full VO and Deadfire wouldn't sell without it. WotR doesn't have it, yet judging by the numbers we have, it did much better than Kingmaker and Deadfire and even eclipsed PoE1. Clearly full VO is not required, and it won't save your game if the base is shit either.
