Publically traded corporation, or moral decision.

Maximizing shareholder value is why real wages, as in wages relative to inflation, have stagnated since the 1970s even as economic productivity has consistently risen in the long term over the last five decades.

You’re seriously underselling BG3 by saying it’s a more advanced Dragon Age. No CRPG has ever come so close to emulating the feel of an actual table top game.

It's because the categories it did win were consolation prizes.

“Translating something to reality includes making it feel like it’s a part of reality, which we seem to have given up on entirely with these adaptations.”

The combining of heavily stylized elements with otherwise realistic ones is an aesthetic choice in and of itself. See also, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World or Kill Bill.

Live Action =/= Realism. Verisimilitude or lack thereof is an aesthetic choice.

You are very old and crotchety. I was 13 years old when I unwrapped a copy of Fallout on Christmas morning in 1997. I still enjoy the series.

https://youtu.be/sVgVB3qsySQ?si=lbBCmS7Ol0k2O-AT

It’s not indie rock if it comes from.a.major label. Just because stupid people don’t know what indie means, that doesn’t make it so. All indie means in music is that something wasn’t released by one of the Big Four labels or their subsidiaries.

Yeah, it’s owned by Wizards. That’s why Larian, the independent game studio, had to pay Wizards for the IP rights to make Baldur’s Gate 3, an indie game, using money they had earned independently from the sales of their prior indie games.

A Triple A indie game is still an indie game.

Most people are wrong.

It's not meaningless. It just means independently published. It describes a business model.

Larian worked hard to perfect their collective ability to make the kind of games they make. They wanted to D&D years ago. Wizards said no, you aren’t good enough or big enough for our licence. Larian made the Divinity Original Sin games, proved Wizards wrong, got the licence, and made one of the greatest RPGs of all…

Lol no. The definition of indie game isn't vague. Any independently published game is an indie game. Because indie is short for independent. The name is, quite literally, the definition. Get a clue.

Lol no. You just don't know what an indie game is. Get a clue.

There is an indie game nominated for game of the year. You even mentioned it by name. And it happens to be one that blew everyone away 

You don't think Baldur's Gate 3 has a shot at winning?

Baldur's Gate 3 is an indie game.