Conjure up a mental image of a computer RPG. What do you see? An enormous adventure packed with nearly eighty hours of content? A fantasy setting that feels lived in and chock full of character? Pauseable party-based combat featuring layers of complexity and rewards for careful planning and creativity? Tons of genuinely interesting side quests driven by memorable characters, from shady liars to sickeningly virtuous rubes? You would be hard-pressed to name anything more representative of PC role-playing than the Baldur's Gate saga.
"Treat your players as you would like to be treated, that's it," Vincke says when asked about how to maintain trust with a game's community.
The Elder Scrolls: Baldur's Gate 3.
Kinda cool I guess. Seems they just allowed the camera to zoom in right on top of the characters head and then able to control movement like a fps. Makes me wonder what the game would be like if I didn't ever zoom way out and scroll over the environment to check out for enemies nearby almost constantly.
"They can define so many things and they know your games"
The companies that fire creative talent that demand high compensation are not looking to make good games. They just need someone to disguise a monetization scheme. The goals are different. They would be idiots if they were looking to make a solid game and fired solid talent, but they are not, so they are not idiots when it comes to their goals. However, they are idiots if they think it's sustainable.
"They just need someone to disguise a monetization scheme."
The most true statement on the Internet today.
This is along the same lines of them cancelling or abandoning tried-and-true IPs just to create cash grabs games. It really makes a difference when the top people love games and love what they do. It shows in the final product.
Hopefully, you don't let BG3's success get to your head and become CDPR 2.0.
Good. Corporate can go to mobile that way we can get our hobby back on the right track.
That's why some guys make "game of the year" games, and other make, well, Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League.
