Baldur's Gate 3 Proves Modern Gaming is Getting Worse + Western Devs Attack Larian Studios Success

what's up everyone it's in demion and as you're probably aware the hotly anticipated Baldur's Gate 3 has finally come out on PC with the console versions releasing in September for us peasants such as myself the game has been a massive success story for larion Studios who has had one hell of a comeback the past decade with the Divinity original sin games which I beat both of them and yeah I highly recommend them players are praising Baldur's Gate 3 due to its breath of content incredible branching passive story and character customization to name just a few of the highlights of this Landmark title and it's Metacritic and user score are not only surprising but insanely weird with this game being one of the only big releases in years that I can think of anyway that has gotten this glowing of a reception in a lot of ways Baldur's Gate 3 success is to crpgs what Eldon ring was to action open world RPGs sadly both Elden ring and bd3 have a striking similarity amongst them as well well and it's not that they're both incredibly well made offered loads of options and have zero microtransactions but that Baldur's Gate 3 like Elden ring before it over delivers on its promise and this has worried and pissed off many developers at other gaming Studios when Eldon Ring released we had Horizon zero Dawn and Ubisoft employees complaining they couldn't understand why fans were so crazy about Elden ring Elder ring was attacked because it was full of content and had more gameplay options than anything else on the market it was also attacked because it didn't hold players hands and gave more content than Western devs were used to delivering basically they hated Eldon ring because it was a true video game that cared about its consumers which is something sadly a ton of Western games these days regretfully just can't understand and like that game Baldur's Gate 3 is in similar hot water amongst the creative types according to gameworldobserver.com with their article titled why AI devs consider Baldur's Gate 3 anomaly not new standard for RPG genre it's Rockstar level nonsense for scope a lot of this discourse started where an indie game developer names Olivier Nelson Jr tweeted that bg3's success will only harm the future releases of other games due to its quality he said things such as like a lot of people I'm deeply excited about what the lovely Folks at larian accomplished with Baldur's Gate 3 but I want to gently preemptively push back against players taking that excitement and using it to apply criticism or a race standard to RPGs going forward this is not a new Baseline for RPGs this is an anomaly trying to do the same thing in the same way especially without the same advantages could kill an entire group of Studios so please celebrate the achievement represented by Baldur's Gate 3. it looks like a massive amount of effort is about to pay off in a big way for one of the brightest voices in the medium but if you shout that every RPG should be like this is going forward you have no excuse you've not just missed the point you've created the expectations and conditions to ensure your favorite creators may never be able to give you the thing you love ever again then you have other game devs like James Berg who also said things about Baldur's gay three I would not be surprised if this was more Dev effort than the next two or three games in the genre combined it's Rockstar level nonsense for scope only a few Studio groups could even try this I cannot wait to play but this kind of effort likely won't be replicated this decade while I understand bg3's success and scope would make an indie Studio shudder since there's no way they can achieve that level of sheer content I think people like zolavier and James are also kind of what's wrong with Western gaming lately as well I don't need to tell you that currently right now there's a lot of garbage coming out of Western Studios there's far too many live service games with microtransactions battle passes or games launching that barely even work and constantly crash just like Star Wars Jedi Survivor when that released on PC the game was a mess and it had the backing of a massive game company and Disney and it was based on one of the largest IPS in the world yet even then PC players were given a broken game and expected to pay full price to play it anyway I think we can all agree that when it comes to Modern gaming for the most part when you buy a game on release there's a really good chance you're basically buying a game to be a beta tester of course there are some games that released that both work well and have the Polish that players expect for the money that they spend Final Fantasy 16 is a great example of this alongside Eldon ring and bg3 these games all actually deliver on what they promise and in my opinion they also justify their price tags but there's also this weird Mantra when it comes to Modern video games which is that it seems like game devs purposely try to not over deliver because they don't want to give more content are polish than they think that they need to I think the real reason why devs had unanimously agreed on this bizarre don't over deliver tactic is because it creates a baseline to give thousands of devs room to release games of varying quality that either work fine or not at all at release and this is just how things are apparently but I personally believe that this mentality is encouraged because it allows game studios to deliver less content while still reaping the rewards a great example of this actually is the whole Destiny 2 controversy right now in case you don't know about that Bungie released a state of the game where they basically confirmed that they were all but dropping core game modes and would no longer be adding new armor sets to the game every season because of low adoption rates according to Bungie but fans quickly pointed out that the armor that has low adoption rates usually looks like ass since all the actual good sets and weapon Skins are all placed behind eververse which is Destiny 2's micro transaction store Bungie also said that making games is hard and players should be more realistic with their expectations they also stated during a game's developer conference that over delivering can hurt your game and set patterns that make future content unable to deliver Bungie even believes previous releases like the witch Queen expansion to be an example of over delivery yet players loved that expansion because it not only added new game mechanics it had a good raid and an excellent story it actually felt worth the money that you spent on it then you fast forward to this year's release with lightfall and the community's nuclear reaction to it was the opposite of witch Queen lightfall felt pointless rushed had a terrible story and campaign and besides a new subclass it's largely considered a blight on Destiny's history but to Bungie lightfall Falls in line with what fans should expect but the problem here is that lightfall has less content than witch Queen but it was also sold for a higher price than which queen as well meaning Bungie effectively gave their player base less content of a much lower quality and made more money in the end it's a win for the studio financially but Bungie instead paid the price with a loss of credibility player satisfaction and now with this state of the game nonsense the community's faith in Bungie is at an all-time low now but in terms of what devs legs olavier and James said previously what Bungie did by under delivering is seen as good in their eyes yet it's opposite for the paying customer it honestly seems like consumers and devs are at a Crossroads where both parties have wildly different expectations of the other and with balder's gate 3's massive release with its over delivering and sheer amount of content and quality it's the exact opposite of Destiny's lightfall fans are happy to buy bg3 because it respects their time and money and doesn't constantly ask players to buy nonsense like weapons or armor constantly but to devs they hate it because it doesn't fit into this new age model of what games should be I also find it interesting that when Destiny releases a crap expansion a lot of these devs are silent but whenever a game actually meets audience expectations like Elden ring or bg3 they unanimously assemble to tear these games down the simple truth is that devs don't want Elden ring and Baldur's Gate 3 to become the norm because they don't want the norm to become over delivering but the truth is that today's over delivering was 10 or 20 years ago's industry standard it's likely why we haven't seen a new Elder Scrolls in forever because a game like Skyrim if it were released today as a brand new game in terms of scope content story and so on these same devs would attack it because it would be over delivering in their words other devs like spell forces 3's Rebecca Harwick said this whole thread you can can't be appalled about how much big games cost to make and make those lavish Productions the standard by which all games are judged I hope Baldur's Gate 3 is a generous once in lifetime RPG I hope no one expects a 10 20 40 person team to make one but I think these devs are taking the wrong lessons from Baldur's Gate and Eldon ring we understand that not every game will be utterly massive like the lands between but I think more so than anything players want games to have quality be the utmost importance to depths Elden ring alone has more combat and weapon options than multiple AAA games combined Baldur's Gate 3 has more cut scenes and replayability than the greatest of roguelikes they don't want these games to become the norm because if they do it'll expose their games for being shitty and greedy and that's what this is all about they don't want players to expect actual quality games because it means these devs have to do more than the bare minimum when it comes to making them and the Rockstar level nonsense line is also tone deaf since yet again devs are hating on games that are far more profitable and quality made than their own sure Grand Theft Auto 5 is a cash cow full of micro transactions but at least at its core I think people will agree that it's a quality product it looks great it has a huge world with tons of content and the physics and everything within it work both to great and hilarious effect they're tearing down Baldur's Gate 3 because it proves that games can still be great and profitable but bg3 is also an anomaly in today's world because today's games are largely unfinished unplayable messes at release or they under deliver on purpose while charging more like Destiny does and it seems like larian is already in the crosshairs of the mega corpo since Larry and CEO Sweden Vic confirms that Microsoft has approached them about buying the entire company but swen assures fans layer Korean will stay independent saying I'm getting older but I'm certainly not done yet the strength of this company is that I'm very invested in the gameplay and I also make the ultimate decisions we can do things in service of the games we're making with swen clarifying that his problem with mega corpos is that profit is always more important than gameplay or quality and that Baldur's Gate 3's reception is proof that larion cares about its players and their reputation far more than just milking them for eternity and really how many game devs these days can you really say have that same mentality chasing the bag seems to be all these AAA Studios do these days besides Bungie milking their player base and then crying saying making games is too hard you have BioWare who used to be like larion until they stopped making games like Mass Effect and decided it was time for the studio to make a live service game which is how Anthem came to be this cultural and tonal shift in modern gaming has honestly ruined window a lot of these companies I wouldn't be surprised if the original Mass Effect Trilogy by today's standards is also over delivering in modern game dev's eyes as well it seems like every great game that actually tries to be a fun game first is more a problem than the tsunami of free to play nonsense out there they simply do not want quality and sheer quantity of content to be the norm they want to Gaslight people and make them feel sorry for the devs while also charging insane prices for games that secretly make every paying customer into a beta tester to be real with you it's just so tiring larion warms my heart since when you look at whether Baldur's Gate 3 has any microtransactions on the official store it says there are no in-game purchases in our game we believe in providing a complete and immersive gaming experience without the need for additional purchases enjoy the game to its fullest without any additional cost or micro transactions like what the hell right this should be the standard going forward but it isn't it's insane that in 2023 there's a big budget AAA RPG game that not only respects its players but also their wallets this game honestly doesn't feel real so it's no wonder why other devs hate it and it's incredibly eye-opening when you place vg3 up against other huge RPGs this year like Diablo 4 which not only has a premium battle pass but also an entire online store full of sets that cost as much as entire video games Diablo 4 also got into trouble when the first season of that game win live because the devs on purpose place the button to buy their premium battle pass directly where players access the map with the pass being bought without any confirmation so likely thousands of players of Diablo 4 mistakenly bought the battle pass by accident and no blizzard will not refund those who did it don't you just love these modern gaming companies and the disrespect of modern gaming doesn't even end there since Red Dead Redemption just got an official release on switch and PS4 the game is 50 American at launch and oh by the way this is a re-release that's all it is a re-release this version of Red Dead is the exact same game back on the Xbox 360 and PS3 there's no visual enhancements no 60fps or added bells and whistles Rockstar literally just released the same game as it was over 10 years ago for almost the same price as Baldur's Gate 3 at launch so when I say that these companies and their Studios don't value their customers I truly do mean it they do not care about you at all you are just a consumer born to pay for stuff until you die in their eyes and that is why Baldur's Gate 3 is so hated by these modern game developers because it could have easily been designed to fleece its audience with predatory microtransactions or pay to win nonsense and the user review speak for themselves I mean come on just read any one of these for confirmation this one especially which says larion and from software are the only two Studios that I trust I agree with Raiden here as well there's not many devs I would say I openly trust anymore when it comes to them delivering quality products and the list of Studios gets smaller every year the more predatory and greedy they become so if you're playing Baldur's gay three I hope you enjoy it I hope people continue to reward and play games that actually genuinely are designed to be the best experience possible and if you want another game I think that falls in line with games like Baldur's Gate 3 or Elden ring in terms of quality and content maybe give chained Echoes a look sometime it's cheap and has more content and love put into it than most AAA RPGs I'm not even kidding but these games should not be anomalies but the standard so please keep playing push back and let these Studios know their lazy attempts at normalizing games will not stand fall with your wallet friends that's really all you can do so thank you for watching subscribe for more in the future like the video to help the channel out have a great day enjoy video games and I'll see you in the 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Published: Wed Aug 09 2023