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GloomFrost

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scytheavatar said:
jf8350143 said:
I don't really like Larian but blaming them for the full VO trend is wild. They are just doing what big budget games always do, wasting money on VO and graphics etc, just like Bioware and CDPR before them.

PoE 2 already had fully VO(because people are demanding it) and back then BG3 wasn't even announced yet.
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POE 2 had full VO because DOS2 had it and Feargus was afraid it would make POE 2 look bad if they didn't have it, and he had to force Sawyer to include it.

The expectation for a long time is that isometric CRPGs are AA games without the potential to become AAA. Larian smashed that illusion and made it clear there's no reason why you can't make a CRPG with the budget of Assassin's Creed or God of War.
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Bioware was the first one who tried to mix Old school RPG and AAA blockbuster in DA:O (Full VO, lots of cut scenes, sex). BG3 did NOTHING that hasn't been done before.
 

scytheavatar

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GloomFrost said:
scytheavatar said:
jf8350143 said:
I don't really like Larian but blaming them for the full VO trend is wild. They are just doing what big budget games always do, wasting money on VO and graphics etc, just like Bioware and CDPR before them.

PoE 2 already had fully VO(because people are demanding it) and back then BG3 wasn't even announced yet.
Click to expand...

POE 2 had full VO because DOS2 had it and Feargus was afraid it would make POE 2 look bad if they didn't have it, and he had to force Sawyer to include it.

The expectation for a long time is that isometric CRPGs are AA games without the potential to become AAA. Larian smashed that illusion and made it clear there's no reason why you can't make a CRPG with the budget of Assassin's Creed or God of War.
Click to expand...
Bioware was the first one who tried to mix Old school RPG and AAA blockbuster in DA:O (Full VO, lots of cut scenes, sex). BG3 did NOTHING that hasn't been done before.
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DAO sold 3.2 million copies which would have been impressive if not for how the game has been in development for 7 years. It's not a success which would have made the industry turn its head. Unlike BG3.
 
Heroic Liberator

Heroic Liberator

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Honestly, I enjoyed the devil path even with how barebones it was. Might do a second playthrough for it once the patch drops. Praise Asmodeus, glory to Cheliax etc etc.
 
Tenebris

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I wish they'd at least give us a Devil option for when you retake Drezen the second time. The failed Aeon route forces you to either pick Gold Dragon or Legend otherwise.
 
IHaveHugeNick

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Game would've been much times better if they focused on more content for 4-5 Mythics and cut everything else as redundant, but as always, they went for more bloat.
 
IHaveHugeNick

IHaveHugeNick

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Neither of those were cringe, they were just made for the target audience of 12 year old boys, whereas BG3 was made for target audience of pedophile gaming journalists from downtown SanFran.
 
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