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‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K

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Post by b59831 »

handmadeta wrote: post #27
mastax wrote: post #18

I am a bit shocked by how popular this game is. All the signs were there, though. - Their previous game Divinity: Original Sin 2 was critically acclaimed, very popular for a pretty hardcore CRPG, and had long legs. - DnD has a lot of brand power and has been strongly in the zeitgeist for years. - There's a big cohort of millennials who have strong nostalgia for Baldur's Gate and who have plenty of money to buy games…

I don't want to attack you personally but I think your post illustrates an common error in thinking that caused gaming to stagnate for the past decade. I can just hear the army of MBAs making spreadsheets and checklist reflecting exactly this "paint by the numbers" style of thinking. This in turn means that the next ten AAA titles starting production are going to check all these boxes and then ... will still fail. In…

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Post by duxup »

jamesgreenleaf wrote: post #69

I don't believe that no one predicted the overwhelming success of a long-anticipated sequel to one of the most legendary and deeply-loved games of all time. Maybe I've played BG2 too many times, but for me this was a no-brainer. You could read the steam reviews from early access as well, and the prediction should have been pretty easy. People were already impressed with the early campaign. Personally I'm putting off…

I wish I could go back and enjoy the old BG games but I tried recently and oh man the old school UI back then had a lot of inconveniences that for some reason I struggle to deal with at this point.

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Post by MathMonkeyMan »

fredley wrote: post #112
izzydata wrote: post #103

What really sealed the deal for me checking out this game is the promise to not have any microtransactions. That's a trend that has only been getting worse for 20+ years now and I'd gladly pay full price for a game that simply gives me a whole game upon purchase.

No micro transactions, offline single player. A luxury in 2023.

They do put some effort into getting you to create an account and go online in the installer.

And, when you boot the game, it instead boots a window GUI that I can imagine serves only to display the giant ad to upgrade to the more expensive version of the game. You have to search for the de-emphasized not-quite-a-button below to actually play the game.

This is one of the things I like about truly single-player games, where no interaction with other players is possible. Mostly puzzle games. None of those games have any of these dark patterns or unnecessary connectivity.

I have been enjoying Baldur's Gate 3. Offline :)

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Post by gardenhedge »

LegitShady wrote: post #153
ls612 wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't get this take, just in the past 12 months we have seen -God of War Ragnarok -Tears of the Kingdom -Hogwarts Legacy -Star Wars Jedi Survivor -Final Fantasy XVI All entirely or almost entirely singleplayer and all receiving critical acclaim (except for the poor launch of Jedi Survivor's PC port). And the next few months include Starfield and Spider-Man 2, both blockbuster singleplayer games with no microtransac…

>-God of War Ragnarok playstation exclusive >-Tears of the Kingdom nintendo exclusive >-Hogwarts Legacy I don't know anyone who has played it - maybe we're just not that interested in harry potter >-Star Wars Jedi Survivor launched with multiple huge bugs including progression stopping bugs. I'll get it when its cheap and theyve fixed everything, or they haven't and I won't. If your game is bugged from day one don't…

Hogwarts Legacy is recommended

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Post by pierrebeucher »

honeybadger1 wrote: post #157

The shills are already out from the big players denouncing the 'type of game' development behind BG3. They're justifying the reskinning of the same shit over and over and calling it the next best title when it's basically nothing but the same shit regurgitated over and over. I am already almost finished with Act 2 and I have to say this game will keep me occupied for many a night to come. AMAZING team they have at La…

Can you be more specific about "big players denouncing the 'type of game' development behind BG3" ? I've heard a few things about BG3 development method being critized by some devs and/or companies but haven't read some source material yet.

EDIT: nevermind, Googling "baldur's gate 3 development critics" yields tons of results

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Post by ipaddr »

MisterBastahrd wrote: post #111
spacemadness wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you know nothing of those games, you might want to stop with the gaming critique.

Street Fighter 6 literally gave players something they've been dreaming about for years: the ability to customize a character to one's own liking based off of the moves of the existing characters in the game. Want to dragon punch like Ryu, throw a sonic boom like Guile, and kick like Chun Li? You can do that now.

Maybe I'm a purist but that sounds awful.. If you want Ryu's moves you have to take his shortcomings. Don't super charge your player into something a backstory can't support

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Post by actualwitch »

bugglebeetle wrote: post #64
remcob wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s also the only high production game with native MacOS & M1 support I could find. I got the early access just to see what M1 GPU can do and was impressed.

Caveat here being that the full game has yet to release on Mac. The release date for the full Mac game is TBD.

They said they are aiming for september 6 mac release date.

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Post by rejectfinite »

lylejantzi3rd wrote: post #52
jncfhnb wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> When was the last time a AAA game was truly fun to play? Tears of the Kingdom, Resident evil 4, Street Fighter 6

Interest in Tears of the Kingdom dropped off pretty quickly. Is that all? edit: I didn't play the other two games. One's a remake of a game I never played (I never owned playstations) and I don't really play fighting games. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ edit2: this is getting ridiculous.

edit2: help I am getting blown the fuck out with concrete examples of AAA games that have been fun to play in the last years

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Post by rejectfinite »

csa wrote: post #137
deng wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to Metacritic, in addition to the already mentioned people had fun with Metroid Prime Remastered Diablo IV Persona 4 Golden Dead Space Remake Final Fanatasy XVI Pikmin 4 Star Wars Jedi Survivor Hogwarts Legacy Remnant II So this year actually seems to be pretty great w.r.t. AAA games, and the next months will be pretty ridiculous, with Armored Core VI, Starfield, Mortal Kombat 1, Forza Motorsport, Alan Wake…

> Diablo IV You must have missed the 2.2 score that it currently has after being review bombed due to recent development decisions. On a personal level, I will say that they got the campaign right, but the rest of the game is incomplete. This game should have been released as a public beta — it’s currently not close to being a complete experience, imho.

That's just cuz a recent patch nerfed some things

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Post by rejectfinite »

deng wrote: post #117
lylejantzi3rd wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interest in Tears of the Kingdom dropped off pretty quickly. Is that all? edit: I didn't play the other two games. One's a remake of a game I never played (I never owned playstations) and I don't really play fighting games. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ edit2: this is getting ridiculous.

According to Metacritic, in addition to the already mentioned people had fun with Metroid Prime Remastered Diablo IV Persona 4 Golden Dead Space Remake Final Fanatasy XVI Pikmin 4 Star Wars Jedi Survivor Hogwarts Legacy Remnant II So this year actually seems to be pretty great w.r.t. AAA games, and the next months will be pretty ridiculous, with Armored Core VI, Starfield, Mortal Kombat 1, Forza Motorsport, Alan Wake…

Noooo you don't get it, only niche pixel indie games can be FUN!!! /s
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