As he does every year, Scott B @fkasocks treats us to another series of anxious ramblings masquerading as a game of the year list. #1 on this list is going to be Baldur's Gate 3. There's no way around it. All he can do is stall until the inevitable happens.
I like how Vinny’s idea of a fix-it AU for Game of Thrones in his most recent Tears of the Kingdom stream was to just turn it into the plot of Xenoblade 1 and 3 FR, and everyone in chat including me immediately called him out for it.
The developers of the new Gollum game, Daedalic Entertainment, were previously known for mostly creating modern 2D point-and-click adventure games like Deponia, The Whispered World, and Anna’s Quest, which probably explains the occasional obtuse puzzles and pixel-hunting that apparently goes on in Gollum, and all you have to do is look at screenshots or gameplay footage of any of those to see that this is a textbook case of devs biting off more than they can chew.
Even their works with more detailed graphics are still harkening back to very old adventure game conventions and seem to be just above indie in terms of budget and scale, so I can’t imagine that the vast majority of them were the ones to decide they should take a left turn and tackle something way bigger, that being a fully 3-D platformer with elements of stealth based on the most famous fantasy franchise of all time.
Whose idea was it, anyway, their French owners, a company called Nacon? Why not just make a game more in-line with what Daedelic were used to making, something smaller-scale that doesn’t charge 60 dollars to get all the lore compendiums and emotes and shit? They were being set up for failure, and I hope they take the lessons learned and move on.
I havent even played Lord of the Rings: Gollum but I have seen that the devs have issued an APOLOGY for the game being so bad. Like how bad is the game? the screenshots seem terrifying ngl
So... the new LotR game, Lord of the Rings: Gollum is um, not so good. I hope Daedalic releases some patches because I really want to roam around Mirkwood. 😥
Well, it's finally over. The end of Game Of The Year 2023. Don't cry because it ended, smile because you read and listened to a whole bunch of opinions on video games. Our final day is all about the writing: Best Narrative and Best Character. Au revoir...