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Baldur’s Gate 3 is Causing Some Developers to Panic (youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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While Baldur's Gate 3 is being widely celebrated by fans and developers alike, some are panicking that this could set new expectations from fans. Good.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (47 children)

I'm a game developer. No game developers are panicking about this game. I've not played it but I'll probably play it soon. It looks great but even if it blows my mind it doesn't cause me to panic. It inspires me. I don't know of a game developer that gets panicked at the sight of good games. I know monetary goblins that might realize they can't push heartless games anymore but in the last decade we've started to see games really take shape as cinematic masterpieces. Experiences that truly top movies. This is the inevitable next step. Games with more interactions and more meaningful choice out of those interactions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The video tries to imply it's industry wide, but only show 3 tweets. I've also seen nothing but praise from other game developers I know.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Absolutely what I noticed too. The tweets didn't seem like they were even "panicking" but just saying to players "Don't expect this because most studios aren't going to devote the same resources and ability to the party-based classic isometric-inspired RPG genre because the genre is fairly niche."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It a headline says "some" in it, it's clickbait.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I sware that's happened with all big games of late, Elden Ring, TotK, etc. A few Devs decide to be contraian to the praise and then the media decides it a huge backlash.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That’s just modern media, they often write about the internet exploding about something and then it’s just a few tweets from random people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A few Devs decide to be contraian to the praise and then the media decides it a huge backlash.

They are not even criticizing the game.

The opinions are basically either "Smaller studios won't be able to replicate BG3" and "Not all games/RPGs need to be as deep and long as BG3".

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