“When us old folks were playing Diablo II we could go for days, weeks or even months before seeing a “unique” (which roughly equate to Legendries in D3/D4). It was a massive special event to even get one.”

I’m not married to them being white - you definitely see some ethnically South and East Asian Tesla stans (albeit mostly Americans by nationality). What tends to unite them is a tunnel-vision belief that the more financially successful you are, the better/cooler a person you are (this tends to be associated with them…

Yeah even a year or so ago, Tesla had plenty of stans, many of them just boring middle-aged white men who liked Musk as a “successful businessman” or “innovator” or “rocket guy” and “safe” provocateur. Most of those people now? Acting like they never liked him, certainly not buying a Tesla. When you manage to be…

“He somehow convinced “normal” people to subscribe to Twitter.”

“The whole thing feels like a desperate attempt to make a character far more important than he ever should have been in the first place.”

I don’t think there’s any chance of it being an Encanto, because by no accounts except genuinely unhinged superfans does it have any characters as charming as those in Encanto, and none of the songs are as catchy or meme-worth as Bruno.

Because it doesn’t mirror what the US is doing? Jesus wept the Americanocentrism.

“I wanted to love pillars of eternity, but the turn based combat”

I mean, I said AAA, I guess I should have said it twice.

You’re not really familiar with irony, huh? That’d certainly explain why you’re so keen on this basically AI-generated ultra-generic take on Wonka.

I mean, DOS2 is one of the highest-rated CRPGs in history, so yes? It’s certainly in the top 10 CRPGs on Metacritic with it’s 93.

No.

“but the game allows you to just skip it”

It’s true that the in-town stuff hasn’t changed as much (though as you say it has been fleshed out a ton) - that wasn’t really the problem. Rather a lot of the out of town events, particularly those involving tadpoles in any way, were, early on, basically on possible to resolve through violence or using the tadpole,…

Let’s be clear - my point is that there is absolutely no evidence that Larian have ever taken any significant feedback from Wizards of the Coast re: BG3. Particularly not that WotC caused them to “fix” it.

It would be a spoiler if he wasn’t the final boss, maybe. It certainly isn’t that he is.

God forbid an expert and widely-respected-in-the-industry designer explain actual game design issues.

Yeah this is kind of an underrated angle to this.

“wizards forced larian to make it fun”

I think they’ll have done a good job there, based on the EA.