Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

forbes.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

201–210 of 359 posts

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

#201

Post by mepian »

MattRix wrote: post #168
mlinhares wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given almost every single D&D movie has been horrible it would be surprising if it wasn’t a well known studio like Larian doing it. It’s pretty common for games from existing “high profile” IP to be lazy, lackluster, money grabbing products. The last D&D game I remember, Dark Alliance, is horrible.

The new D&D movie that just came out a few months ago was actually pretty fun, and it has a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

It's one of the most entertaining movies I've seen in years, I recommend it wholeheartedly.

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

#202

Post by sedatk »

henning wrote: post #73

I bought BG3 just because it's a AAA-quality game with no microtransactions, no battle passes, no bullshit, no pay-to-win monetization of any kind. What you buy is what you get, just like how video games generally were up until about ~10 years ago.

Eh. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2378500/Digital_Deluxe_Ed...

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

#203

Post by xwdv »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #118
xwdv wrote: post #47

Any time someone gives me some max capacity estimate to aim for, I multiply it by 10 and design the system for that. That’s 10x developer thinking.

That's 10x budget thinking.

If you pay cheap then you get what you paid for.

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

#204

Post by whateveracct »

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.

What do you mean by "interest" for ToTK? People are still playing it who got it on launch day. I know I am.

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

#205

Post by tda »

Ekaros wrote: post #188
tda wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have games plenty, but had never even heard about the Valeurs Gate franchise until last week. I must have been in a different bubble with Dune 2, Red Alert, Some City 2000, Tomb Raider, GTA3, Dungeon master and probably some more that I can't recall now. But the whole fantasy RPG wasn't really my thing I guess

I think only GTA 3 is contemporary to it. Others are earlier games, which might explain things.

I thought all these games were end of nineties, but I didn't check and am not so good at this. Anyways, I never stopped gaming since

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

#206

Post by handmadeta »

hfhdjdks wrote: post #169
handmadeta wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

The GP is analyzing some dimensions to figure out if the success of Baldur's Gate is surprising or not. He/she finds that, given the limited dimensions we can consider, the success is surprising. I read your reply as saying "no, it's not possible to analyze why games fails / succeed, because they're all different". I feel that's usually unhelpful: assuming we can't explain things because they're all idiosyncratic is…

I think OP is putting too much emphasis on brand and reputation. Blizzard had the best of both and they still manage to produce failure after failure (at least as far as critical acclaim goes). BattleBit had none is also a massive success. What makes a game fail or succeed? I don't think anyone knows. But I am fairly sure that whatever AAA mainstream is doing isn't really working. The biggest games are almost all either old franchises that usually have their roots in mods or some kind of simulator that just packages up and polishes something from the real world. So where has the innovation, the joy of video games gone? I think it's being smothered by spreashsheets and processes. If that's true then the solution is quite simple: Let people who actually like games and who can make games, make the games that people want.

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

#207

Post by vanderZwan »

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…

> Pikmin 4

As a long-time Pikmin fan it is absolutely wild to me to see Pikmin 4 in a list of AAA games.

There's nothing else like that series in terms of aesthetics, in-game lore or gameplay. It's always been its own singular sub-genre which screams "indy game", and the mediocre sales reflected that. Except that it just happens to also be a first-party Nintendo game that Shigeru Miyamoto is personally invested in.

And now Pikmin 4 suddenly blows everyone's expectations away.

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

#208

Post by dvngnt_ »

wlesieutre wrote: post #196
galangalalgol wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This game also has the meta that most recent D&D games missed. If you know the tabletop game, you can build an optimized character in the bg series, because the game system is close wherever it can be. Some spells are just too freeform to work without a human DM, but they seem to have done very well, perhaps a bit too much focus on environmental damage like the divinity series, but they toned that down right? I haven…

Main thing I'm missing so far is you can't ready an action, which makes it nearly impossible to play defensively. If your turn doesn't give you enough movement to run up to the enemies and stab them, you can't say "I run next to the doorway and wait to stab the first person who runs through it." Instead, you have to waste your turn and then stand around getting attacked. So it's often to your advantage to roll worse…

i think the key is to start combat in stealth so they're surprised and they waste their first move

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

#209

Post by Waterluvian »

majormajor wrote: post #124
Novosell wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there any companies continuously making widely different critically acclaimed games? or do they typically have a hit and then make games in the same vein? Bioware had a certain take on RPGs, same with Bethesda's modern Fallout/Elder Scrolls, FromSoft make DS derivatives, etc. If I'm missing some studio which has a diverse catalogue of consistently successful games, then please tell me which. But I feel they usual…

Nintendo? but that's more "publisher who curates external- or internal-studios who largely stay in the same genre each"

Whatever you label them, the same studios keep pumping out great games.

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

#210

Post by Shared404 »

flohofwoe wrote: post #25
jakebasile wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like the CRPG genre a lot, but I think one reason that BG3 is taking off is that it _looks_ like a modern AA(A?) game while the rest look basically like Baldur's Gate did in 1998. BG3 lets you see the world in a lot more detail and it helps immerse you in Faerûn. Many people will claim "graphics don't matter", but the reality is that they do help.

TBH it looks and especially feels much more like a reskinned Divine Divinity OS2 with DnD rules implanted than BG1 and BG2 (which isn't necessarily a bad thing of course, but I don't feel a lot of BG1 and BG2 nostalgia when playing BG3, instead I'm constantly reminded of OS2). PS: One thing that is a lot better than in BG1 and BG2 is that combat with low-class characters feels a lot more interesting. Not sure how muc…

Haven't play BG3 yet, but my DM has been and noted a few tweaks that Larian made to 5e, especially around spell durations and moving shoving to a bonus action.
Post reply on HN