Which modern WRPG studio do you despise the most?

[KeighnMcDeath]

Has there been a game released in the last 5-10-15-20 years that had no bugs upon release? I swear, seeing these bugs is pretty fucking annoying.

 

[Swen]

29% hates Larian?

 

[Butter]

Has there been a game released in the last 5-10-15-20 years that had no bugs upon release? I swear, seeing these bugs is pretty fucking annoying.

Outer Worlds apparently shipped in a pretty polished state.

 

[ropetight]

Has there been a game released in the last 5-10-15-20 years that had no bugs upon release? I swear, seeing these bugs is pretty fucking annoying.

Outer Worlds apparently shipped as a pretty polished turd.

FTFY.

 

[Skinwalker]

There's a FORTY percent difference between the first and second places in this poll.

 

[Inec0rn]

I'm suprised Bioware is so relevant here, I just stopped caring reading or playing any of their games after DA:2?. Bethesda grind my gears though, worse game after worse game when they could easily actually make a good game solely just based off the Nexus download metrics to understand what their players actually like in their games.

And they always get a free pass / praise and rapid fanboys defending them because modders will fix this piece of shit.. and even with 1000 mods installed you can't fix the uninspired rat pelt quests and bland lacklustre main questline and characters.

 

[KörangarTheMighty]

now every time I'm searching something in relation to BG, that reeking pile of dung pops up to remind me of its existence.

SEO debasement should be a hanging offense.

Bioware - They ruined themselves by thinking their generic in-house IPs could match Forgotten Realms and Star Wars. All they were ever capable of was writing passable video game stories based on the work of others. They were never good at gameplay and they lacked the talent for long-term development of worldbuilding and lore. The writing was on the wall as early as '05 with Jade Empire, and the chickens came home to roost with DA2 and ME3. They had very few original ideas but nobody wanted to admit it. As of now they're just a name bereft of meaning and as gay as a two dollar bill to boot. Also, for taking every interesting plot element set up in KotOR II and drowning them in retardation in TOR.

Larian - For fagging up Baldur's Gate and wearing its corpse like a skinsuit. Absolutely shameless.

CDPR - Forgot to vote for them. For apologizing for Witcher 1, their best game. They deserve to go the way of the dodo for that alone.

Obsidian - I didn't vote for them. Their crimes are lesser as they have always been bandwagoneers, not industry leaders. Their real talent dried up years ago and they're just another skinsuit now. For the record, No Avellone = No soul.


Don't care about the rest.

 

[Dr1f7]

probably obsidian because they have the potential to keep trucking along making decent crpgs like PoE but instead they decide to make some bad rick and morty fallout 3 clone, strange honey i shrunk the kids thing, and a really really bad looking skyrim rip off

impressive how avowed somehow looks worse than the new dragon age

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

impressive how avowed somehow looks worse than the new dragon age

Wouldn't go that far tbh.
That being said I agree, it's a great shame they didn't go on with cRPGs because deadfire has shown that once the system was refined it was quite good. Also they screwed up Tyranny bad, it had some potential that was completely squandered.

 

[ColossusCimmerian]

BioWare, Bethesda and Larian.

 

[Berengar]

Beamdog

 

[Lord_Potato]

CDPR - Forgot to vote for them. For apologizing for Witcher 1, their best game. They deserve to go the way of the dodo for that alone.

When did CDPR apologize for Witcher 1? Do you have some evidence like a link?

 

[ColonelMace]

Obsidian isn't a trendsetter but a trend follower. They haven't had much of an influence on RPGs, they merely take influences and do their own - usually mediocre - spin on them. 99% of their games are just meh, and even the good ones are either sequels or clones.

Owlcat and inXile are decent mid-list RPG devs. Their games aren't great, but they're not terrible either. They don't try anything new, but go for solid proven mechanics and just give you a decent 6/10 classic RPG experience. Nothing to hate there, honestly.

I don't get what differentiates these studios in your eyes. Seems to me they all fall in the same category.
Also, Owlcat is much worse when it comes to copy pasting stuff ad nauseam than either inXile or Obsidian. They're also worse in the writing and even more guilty of uninventiveness.
I'd go to the extent of saying that inXile's catalogue, specifically, is pretty much clean of any misstep.
They even released a blobber, which is an obvious symptom of prestigious aspirations.
And Wasteland 3 was a good game, I'll die on that hill.

 

[Butter]

I'd go to the extent of saying that inXile's catalogue, specifically, is pretty much clean of any misstep.
They even released a blobber, which is an obvious symptom of prestigious aspirations.
And Wasteland 3 was a good game, I'll die on that hill.

You're not going to find any passionate defenders of inXile because they've never made a truly great game, just a bunch of decent-to-mediocre ones. They deserve credit for trying to remain a CRPG studio longer than Obsidian did. Alas, it looks like that's over with Clockwork Revolution.

 

[ColonelMace]

True but the thread is specifically about devs we despise the most. I don't think there's any actual reason to despise inXile as of yet.
Their biggest crime remains Fargo's unhinged drop of ridiculous buzzwords in every single piece of advertisement they come up with. But that's the name of the game for indies, isn't it?

 

[JarlFrank]

True but the thread is specifically about devs we despise the most. I don't think there's any actual reason to despise inXile as of yet.

As I said in my post:

Nothing to hate there, honestly.

The only studio that's truly bad and whose influence has been a detriment to the genre out of this list is Bioware.

 

[Karwelas]

Despise is a strong word, but the most? Bethtards for being Bethards who should be sued for releasing shit games on same engine over and over again and doing nothing interesting since Morrowind. Bioware for ruining Dragon Age post Origins and following the DEI stuff so blindly they may as well as be replaced by bots.

Owlcat is guilty of shitty ending chapters, trash combat design, and doing "MUH NUMBERS" instead of actual fun encounters.

Larian is generally not bad - I like and enjoy their games despite some shit like weird bear stuff. BG3 is really good game with lot of class options and reactivity, even if it was touched in inapropriate places by post 2020 D&D stuff.

 

[Blutwurstritter]

Bethesda. Never cared for their open world garbage games, but that is not the reason. They pulled to much shady and scummy shit as publisher, which is why I'd prefer them gone rather sooner than later.

 

[Inec0rn]

Also that they can't figure out how to leverage their mod community that any studio would kill to have, it's almost like they actively work against community that support them and self sabotage. Valve for example, 85% of their game releases were made by others, acquired late in development and then polished with Valve's resources for release. For example they could actually work with the Fallout London devteam instead of fucking them with unnecessary patches, generating more buzz, sales and interest in their games.

 

[Karwelas]

Also that they can't figure out how to leverage their mod community that any studio would kill to have, it's almost like they actively work against community that support them and self sabotage. Valve for example, 85% of their game releases were made by others, acquired late in development and then polished with Valve's resources for release. For example they could actually work with the Fallout London devteam instead of fucking them with unnecessary patches, generating more buzz, sales and interest in their games.

Spit out these words man, the last thing I want is these cunts touching Project Tamriel or Tamriel Rebuild! There actually ARE Mods made by some old developers for Morrowind, adding some quests for example and they tend to be great.

 

[Cryomancer]

29% hates Larian?

This also means that 70% don't hate larian. Sure, larian being almost as hated as bugthesda is peak butthurt...

I did not liked dos 1 or 2 but larian is responsible for making tb games more common. I doubt that kingmaker and pillows 2 would ever get tb mode without dos2 success.

 

[babayaga]

It's Bethesda for me because of the fanbase.
Bethestards always manage to be clueless about why their new shit Bethesda game isn't as good as their previous one even if it's glaringly obvious.
The company has been going on a steady decline for years but the fanboys keep on consuming their shit games and thus keeping them alive. Unbelievable.
When will they finally let it die?

 

[OSK]

InXile doesn't belong on this list. They aren't even comparable to these other companies.

 

[Zlaja]

If I really despised a gaming studio then I wouldnt ever play any game from that studio

You always tend to feel a stronger hate/dislike for a company who's games you used to like (some of them, anyway), before they declined, rather than for a company who's games never interested you to begin with.

After all, who do people usually despise: their ex, or that girl who seemed like a cunt to begin with, so you never bothered asking her out to begin with?

 

[KörangarTheMighty]

When did CDPR apologize for Witcher 1? Do you have some evidence like a link?

One of the devs did a stream of it a couple years ago around the time the remake was announced and no I don't, but I heard it with my own ears at the time.