#i will give bioware shit all day but a major component of my bitterness is that i know they can do great shit when they're allowed to

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We Need To Talk About Baldur's Gate 3 Being The New Industry Standard (T...

#love u steph #i certainly won't claim that the ''this shouldn't be the new standard'' rhetoric didn't both me #it did #but i think the core if it is not expecting other studios to be able to compete sans similar resources #but rather making it glaringly obvious that aaa studios backed by major corporations just ARE NOT able to create similar games #and let's be frank that SUCKS #i will give bioware shit all day but a major component of my bitterness is that i know they can do great shit when they're allowed to #and the chokehold on single player story focused rpgs rn is just wild #big studios like bioware arent allowed to make games like this anymore #and i think that reality is made extremely stark in this context bc bioware made bg 1&2 #the studio that laid the groundwork for so much of this stuff has been gutted #and there are few examples of how wrong things have gone more obvious than anthem #ugh idk im just whinging and i don't really have a thesis here but #something is WRONG #something is rotten in denmark