Has Baldur's Gate 3 RUINED Gaming?

[Music] balers Skate 3 ruined gaming this is a sentiment that I keep seeing all across the gaming landscape there's this idea growing that balers Skate 3 has somehow singlehandedly changed gaming forever perhaps even for the worse one recent thread over on the balers Skate 3 subreddit with almost 8,000 upvotes reads as follows I think this game just straight up ruined gaming for me nearing 300 hours and two complete runs I want to take a break from this game and just let it breathe for a second but what the hell am I supposed to go back to everything else that I even think about as an option seems so much more inferior my best bet at the moment will just probably be taking a break from gaming all together and returning to this when the time is right F you larion with love but why is that how did this happen and why do so many gamers all over the world feel this way well let's just take a look at what balers Skate 3 is at its core and here many would just describe it as a turn-based crpg and it is but that's not the main reason bg3 has seen such success which there are several reasons for by the way but the core sitting at the heart of laran Epic is that of choice you see balers Skate 3 is essentially built on top of the foundation are pillars of what an actual roleplaying game should be the first and most basic manner of choice is your choice of what your hero will look like what class You'll Play and even what race this hero belongs to secondly your choice of items to equip what weapons to use and what clothes or armor to wear which is just another core gameplay aspect nowadays and third your choice of what your character is going to say in dialogue scenes now this is where we start getting into the real core of what makes bg3 so fulfilling because unlike some other RPGs released these past few years Baler skate 3's dialog system is built around the idea that what you say actually matters and things can change drastically depending on how you go about expressing yourself and to make the game feel even more immersive and Alive laran went so far as to map most of the dialogue scenes in the game which brings just yet another layer of depth to an already advanced system couple this with voice actors like that of Neil newon Jennifer English and other equally skilled actors and you have yourself dialogue scenes that Rivals even that of Oscar winning film Productions in terms of memorability this unsurprisingly turns an already immersive gaming session into the most impactful and engaging experience since well forever and you can't really find this type of complexity in any game released in recent memory and I think in my humble opinion that this is the main reason why balers Gate 3 resonates so well with so many people no matter if you a crpg veteran or if this is the first game game you've ever played of this genre it's simply so engaging that it's almost impossible to put the game down even for a moment the game is so filled to the brim with so many details that you just have to check out on the masterfully crafted maps and even here larion doesn't force you to take one path to reach your objective but instead they usually provide you with different options on how to get somewhere which again cements the idea of player choice that actually matters the players themselves and this my ladies and gentlemen is really the meat and potatoes of this issue an engaging World impactful dialogue scenes excellently written and acted characters meaningful player choice but Mr hon not every game can have meaningful choices and dialogue scenes that Rivals that of the Silver Screen I hear you say and you're absolutely right not every game will or even can have these kinds of things because not every game is an RPG even less a true RPG as I mentioned before balers Skate 3 was built upon the principles of making the best roleplaying game possible and in that category larion has succeeded to an astronomical degree take a game like Marvel Spider-Man 2 for example which I'm currently playing through Spider-Man 2 is a tremendously fun game because yes you guessed that you get to play as Spider-Man there's no other game that provides the experience of swinging through New York City at break neck speeds and saving people left and right while looking incredibly stylish doing so the Legend of Zelda tears the kingdom provides you with a massive game world where you're allowed to experiment and find your own solutions to incredibly wellth thought out problems like completing a certain puzzle or getting from point A to B Star Wars Jedi Survivor despite its technical issues at launch guides you through detailed semi-open World sections where you slice up Storm Troopers and other hostiles with your own customized lightsaber in one of the best written Star Wars stories period no kidding the Jedi games has cemented Cal as one of my favorite Star Wars characters ever now that's saying something cyberp Punk 2077 takes you on an excellent story set in a very dark future where everything is cyber and artificial in some capacity and while night City might have been artificial and surface level on release cdpr has made an experience unlike any other especially with a Rel of phantom Liberty and Patch 2.0 which in my opinion turned cyberpunk 2077 into what it should have been at launch there's just nothing like driving through the streets of night City while listening to some good synth wve music and I'm pretty sure cdpr had that in mind while making this game genin impact lets you explore a vast Game World for free and provides you the option to pay your monthly rent for some sweet sweet Primo gems because man you really really need that Raiden in your team huh H please oh god of the titty sword please so please just drop seriously though genin impact is really just the ultimate gacha game and it really does scratch that itch of obtaining characters and other Collectibles and no other game really comes close to scratching that itch what I'm trying to say here is that balers Gate 3 fulfills a certain Niche that none of these other games do which again comes down to Ultimate player choice in its purest form yes the game ST mentioned all have some form of player choice but not to the ludicrous degree that balers Skate 3 has and saying that balers Gate 3 as much as it is an incredible game obviously doesn't let you do the things as mentioned from the other games bg3 doesn't let you swing a lightsaber it doesn't let you swing through New York as Spider-Man so with all this said one could say that no balers Gate 3 has not ruined gaming not by a long shot because me and you who may think this way and millions of other players can still find enjoyment and fulfillment from other games and of course the previously mentioned games but what balers Gate 3 has done is that it has irrevocably upped people's expectations for RPGs and the most recent example here is obviously Starfield which came out hot off the heels of bg3 just a month later and to say that Starfield was divisive is an understatement as no matter where you looked there have been equally as many people loving it as there have been people disliking it or downright despising bethesda's latest heavy hitter now as much as Starfield is an enjoyable game in its own right it just feels vastly outdated compared to balers Gate 3 which my buddy big Dan gaming provided excellent examples of in his own critique video and the main reason for this isn't the constant loading screens the hilarious and frequent bugs the cookie cutter weapons and shallow com combat mechanics or the barren and procedurally generated worlds but from my point of view it boils down to a mostly uninteresting cast of characters and just downright boring and unengaging dialogue scenes I'll tell you this much if the roles were reversed and Starfield came out a month before balers Skate 3 I might have been more lenient but because I'd already played through bg3 twice by the time Starfield came out I just couldn't help but feel incredibly uninterested in most conversations in Starfield and I think this is where the main problem lies and why so many people compare these two games cuz you see both games are RPGs both games have a lot of choices both games have a lot of dialogue scenes and starfields release proved at least from what I've seen frequently posted on different websites and from my own feelings that balers Skate 3 has really set a new bar for True role-playing games going forward but to be completely Fair here I didn't want to make this video to just completely dump on Starfield because as I mentioned earlier I don't actually think that it's a bad game but in comparison to something like Baler Skate 3 it just didn't measure up which is insane because that is a thought that I wouldn't even have entertained a year ago but as time goes on as more and more AAA RPGs comes out I'm certain that I and many others will still feel this way that these games simply won't scratch that itch that balers Gate 3 left us with and it's a big itch [ __ ] you larion with love all I can hope for is that Bower gets their pants in order and delivers us something extraordinary with the next Dragon Age game and the next Mass Effect game because those games are really the only ones playing in the same ballpark when it comes to cinematic story driven character-driven RPGs and if they don't scratch that itch what if any other RPG arrives in the future future that just can't measure up well then at least we still have the originals and balers Skate 3 of course

Channel: MrHulthen

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Length: 10min 8sec (608 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 21 2023