I see that as a failure of the term AAA, but I might just be underestimating the size of Larian’s team. I’ve always understood AAA to mean funded by a publisher.
Larian has a massive team and tons of money for BG3. It’s insulting to indies and to BG3 to pretend BG3 is anything other than the product of hundreds of hardworking team members.
I enjoy many indies more than I’ve enjoyed BG3 so far, but that speaks more to the fact that production scale and enjoyment do not scale linearly. BG3 remains a behemoth of a project, however.
Yeah, I have already been corrected. I think the reason I assumed it had a smaller team was because the team clearly loved the game and you don’t see that often in gaming outside of small-team projects.
You have to wonder if they ever played Cyberpunk 2077 (incl. Phantom Liberty) before they came up with that line. The only AAAA game. Maybe not the best game ever, but it definitely felt like the most expensive game ever.
I played base Cyberpunk and I’d like to refund the 60h I played. Thankfully I pirated it, I would not have payed a dime. However I hear comments like: “Phantom Liberty is what the game should be” I watched no spoilers, is it worth playing for me if I despised the base game?
I don’t know how much I played down to the minute, but that’s a good estimation. The reason is because I really would love to love this game. Everything is just a bit off from being good, after that shitass ending and copy-pasted sidecontent, I got so mad at the little things that the whole domino stack fell.
It’s one of the newest RPGs yet it playes like (or worse tbh) than Skyrim. It rivals for best graphics, yet there is no life anywhere. The story urges you to play thur fast, yet the game wants you to discover every corner, making a huge disconnect between narrative and gameplay. The skill tree is so bad, I don’t even want to talk about it, let’s just act it doesn’t exist. The drip in the game is rarer that in Elden Ring. Weapon modding is discouraged as all mods (at least shat I got) are bad and unremovable. Gun play isn’t that bad, I give you that much. However, the guns that you choose to shoot (mostly the how you choose it) is bad, if higher fps than let’s switch. All cybernetic augments are either skill tree replacements or fucking expensive good for nothings. The “hacking” in the game took everything that was bad from Watch Dogs and watered it down to a soulless version. The NPC’s AI are super fucking dumb. Stealt is literally not an option because of this, it’s a flagship openworld rpg, what you mean I can’t stealth. The origin selection is a scam. They did nothing with braindance, yet it has a whole storyline. They did nothing with Johnny yet it’s the whole fucking game somehow.
I could explain all of these points in a paragraph, however I don’t have the time. I won’t even proof-read, it might have a bunch of errors, it is what it is.
I’m surprised that they even thought that they would come even close to outperforming the AAAA battery and even dared to put themselves on the same level as it.
Curious question: when was the last time a large scale “Triple A” title released and actually met expectations?
I think Baldur’s Gate 3 exceeded expectations for many people.
The key word here might be “large-scale” which to me sounds like the production-line games like CoD.
BG3 is large-scale. It’s a AAA game.
I see that as a failure of the term AAA, but I might just be underestimating the size of Larian’s team. I’ve always understood AAA to mean funded by a publisher.
Larian has 450 employees and studios in 6 different countries.
Larian has a massive team and tons of money for BG3. It’s insulting to indies and to BG3 to pretend BG3 is anything other than the product of hundreds of hardworking team members.
I enjoy many indies more than I’ve enjoyed BG3 so far, but that speaks more to the fact that production scale and enjoyment do not scale linearly. BG3 remains a behemoth of a project, however.
Yeah, I have already been corrected. I think the reason I assumed it had a smaller team was because the team clearly loved the game and you don’t see that often in gaming outside of small-team projects.
I fail to see how that question is relevant since this game is a AAAA game /s
You have to wonder if they ever played Cyberpunk 2077 (incl. Phantom Liberty) before they came up with that line. The only AAAA game. Maybe not the best game ever, but it definitely felt like the most expensive game ever.
To me that’s honestly more RDR2. That games amount of detail is pretty staggering.
I played base Cyberpunk and I’d like to refund the 60h I played. Thankfully I pirated it, I would not have payed a dime. However I hear comments like: “Phantom Liberty is what the game should be” I watched no spoilers, is it worth playing for me if I despised the base game?
If you’ve played a game you despise for 60h then I think your opinion on that game is invalid and your opinion on games in general is suspect.
I don’t know how much I played down to the minute, but that’s a good estimation. The reason is because I really would love to love this game. Everything is just a bit off from being good, after that shitass ending and copy-pasted sidecontent, I got so mad at the little things that the whole domino stack fell.
It’s one of the newest RPGs yet it playes like (or worse tbh) than Skyrim. It rivals for best graphics, yet there is no life anywhere. The story urges you to play thur fast, yet the game wants you to discover every corner, making a huge disconnect between narrative and gameplay. The skill tree is so bad, I don’t even want to talk about it, let’s just act it doesn’t exist. The drip in the game is rarer that in Elden Ring. Weapon modding is discouraged as all mods (at least shat I got) are bad and unremovable. Gun play isn’t that bad, I give you that much. However, the guns that you choose to shoot (mostly the how you choose it) is bad, if higher fps than let’s switch. All cybernetic augments are either skill tree replacements or fucking expensive good for nothings. The “hacking” in the game took everything that was bad from Watch Dogs and watered it down to a soulless version. The NPC’s AI are super fucking dumb. Stealt is literally not an option because of this, it’s a flagship openworld rpg, what you mean I can’t stealth. The origin selection is a scam. They did nothing with braindance, yet it has a whole storyline. They did nothing with Johnny yet it’s the whole fucking game somehow.
I could explain all of these points in a paragraph, however I don’t have the time. I won’t even proof-read, it might have a bunch of errors, it is what it is.
Probably not. There are some games that I really enjoy with some mods loaded that I would never play un-modded, so that may be worth checking.
I’m surprised that they even thought that they would come even close to outperforming the AAAA battery and even dared to put themselves on the same level as it.
You forgot about the 5th A and the 3 Rs
Ra-ra-ra-a-a?
it’s a reference to this article.
Oh, AAAAARRR! Because it’s a pirate game! Duh.
I don’t see than in the article though.
Might have been a comment on the post here. shrugs I’m sick, and tired, so that’s the best I can do.
God of War Ragnarök and Spider-Man 2 were phenomenal.
Correction Ubisoft said this a quadruple A game.