What part of what I said in any way, shape or form implies that I said we should suck up to mediocrity? Is it where I said that I specifically didn’t buy this game? Is it when I said that BG3 is absolutely incredible, and the best game I’ve played all year, but I still don’t think that I’ll be playing it in 6 months…

Oh man, didn’t know that! Awesome.

Yup. I didn’t pick up Hogwarts, because it’s not the kind of thing I wanted to put money towards, but this is such an inane article. Shocking news: single player RPG isn’t a live-service game!

While there is absolutely a limitation of a videogame with LOTS, but still limited, options, and a real person who changes things on the fly, there are lots of alternate paths. Want to get thwart Khaga? You can resolve her shadowdruid line, you can kill her, you can rescue Halsin, you can steal the relic (there might…

You really don’t though. If you fail the check on the dog’s collar, you don’t go into combat, you can try multiple things, most of them not being combat. For the goblin example, whether or not you succeed at throwing poop, you go into combat (you know...because you threw poop at them...).

Yeah, I gave up on most pickpocketing as it was frustrating for that very reason. Now I mostly just steal from traders I’m about to murder anyways, so when they get mad, we just fight anyways.

This is absolutely the correct response. While the dice rolls mean that a particular avenue fails, it doesn’t resolve the option entirely.

While 55 hours is definitely a very main path playthrough, it took me~26 hours to do every quest, take to every npc and animal, etc. in act 1. I’m playing the middle difficulty (tactician is fun, but slows things down). You are the other aberrant side of the time scale.

...but the loot...

Please stop fixating on the tree so that you can see the forest.

Yes, but also no. When you make something that absolutely hits in a big way with a bunch of people, you dramatically increase sales. Overly complex means that many people will avoid it, and so you want to avoid that, but this is different from dumbing something down. When you dumb things down, it pisses people off,…

Oh, no, it’s WAY worse than that. Just listen to him:

LOL

I mean, if you turned off all the post processing effects and ran it at 480p, it might work? That game absolutely HUMBLED my 3080, no idea how a ps4 will fair.

It’s a great list, and I feel bad that I’m literally going to play BG3 until Starfield comes out, and I doubt there is room for anything else in my free time.

Wow, it’s very rare that an individual is such a horrible Ahole that I would side with Activision, but here we are.

Yes, because the AC games sell more than it did, and they are silly, and just want immediate money, and have no real concept of developing things for the future. 

“The main character” is absolutely a stretch, but also, she runs off and has a very big series of stories that don’t involve Geralt or Yennifer, and spends a good deal of time teleporting around, finding a new family with The Rats, talking with the Aen Elle, etc. So she becomes a co-main character, with her own…

I think this is absolutely PERFECT. The first season literally has has the evil corporation lying to the poor souls stuck in its system, and the only way out is for them to unite against the tyranny, so yeah. This is appropriate.

I mean, it’s literally a 2 season limited series, so...