I doubt it. You'll get a few YouTubers here and there; they'll have their own game of the year, or put Baldur on. For or a majority of the gaming press, Tears of the Kingdom is going to be on many professional journalist list, because of Zelda bias & whining Nintendo fans get butt hurt of "the best game ever!" not being on the list or number one.
Bluntly, having gone in some way, I think parts of it are... less than ideal.
Idk, this sounds like a big deal. Here’s a massive, choice-heavy RPG sequel that Larian has all but pulled off, that people have been waiting over two decades for. Meanwhile TotK is basically more BotW but quirkier. If it’s between the two I think BG3 could sway all but the most fervent Nintendo fanboys and girls.
I beg to differ. Maybe on first playthrough not, but I used to play Zelda: ALttP constantly while listening to the radio or CDs as a kid, and it was always good fun. Same with F-Zero, Mario Kart, DKC, Blast Corps, fighting games, etc.
We'll see how it goes, but you can't count on most of the gaming press for crap. Especially when it comes to heavy Zelda bias. BG3 I do wish the best for, and I see something special, but I highly doubt most of the press is going to put that if their game of the year.
I disagree. There are lots of great games i played with a podcast on. Like Wow, diablo 2, grinding sessions in final fantasy, elite dangerous, pokemon, animal crossing, stardew valley, etc etc.
While I don't share or understand your hang-up with Zelda, I do agree it's the contender for GOTY.
I don't have a "hang up" with Zelda. I have a problem with gaming journalism and being dishonest, or just playing favorites, because it's Nintendo and not wanting to piss off the irate fanboys and fangirls. I respect the franchise to a degree, but I'm mostly indifferent to it. The most fun I've ever had with the franchise are to spin-offs, and Twilight Princess.
It's a bit niche (first person RPGs tend to sell much better), but should still be capable of shifting well over a million copies on PC alone if it does well. However, hearing about the budget rumours (over $100 million suggested!?), I can't help but feel it's not going to make much profit, if it makes any at all.
Starfield will do well. It will undoubtedly plenty of flak too, because as you note some people really seem to have it in for Bethesda and it will inevitably have issues that need to be patched out over time.
Dumb question prob but this is still like old school cRPGs where if you die, you actually die and the whole game ends?
BG in particular yes, but the DnD fanbase? I dunno, maybe I have a distorted view on what's popular, but this always felt like it was going to be one of those things up there with Dragon Age in terms of popularity.
Maybe if there’d only ever been Origins, but since II and Inquisition exist, DragonAge’s reputation is no longer what it once was in terms of existing in the same space as Baldur’s Gate.
I mean you get sent back to your last save, so save often or you'll lose a lot of progress. I lost basically most of the playthrough up to that poin (which is only like 30 minutes tops) so no big deal. But lesson learned, SAVE OFTEN. Also I was playing on the hardest mode because I thought I was a hotshot DnD player....but apparently I'm not as hot shit as i thought lol
I cant speak for BG3, but DnD rule aren't very good at avoiding incredibly broken build. Because of the relatively simple nature of the system with a large amount of trait/perk, you can often end up with crazy amount of bonus stacking on top of each others (ie having AC 50 when the game is expecting AC30-40 makes you pretty much immortal). If the hardest difficulty setting cater to those build then there's not much someone can do outside of accidentally stumbling onto one of those broken build.
Yes assuming you live to reach those levels. However I was level 2, which is like....very dangerous still. Players don't really start outscaling the monsters until around level 7+ depending on the class. But I'd say anything below level 5 is exceptionally deadly.
True, but the early level are almost always the hardest by quite a long shot, usually have to rely on consumable to get trough the early level but then even hardest difficulty can be smooth sailing.
I think the other intrinsic problem with computer RPGs is that they overwhelmingly tend to favour min-maxing in a way that pen and paper does not. Granted, there's often plenty of "playing the system" with either, but whereas a human DM can tailor the encounters to the party or otherwise arrange things, a computer game tends to be set up with a 'challenge' that the player builds a character to meet.
Larion is pretty good about tailoring the encounters in the different difficulties. And outside the most difficult challenge (which you KNOW is going to be hard) you can adjust the difficulty up and down as desired. It's not as adaptable as a human, but it's about as good as a set of perameters can be.
