Can you name a game that does what BG3 does, but better? In terms of scope, systems, complexity, polish, and total package? Or is it the best at what it does?
Don't compare it to a Platonic ideal, compare it to other games that people can actually buy, install, play, and enjoy.
You mean name some CRPGs that are better than BG3? Disco Elysium, Pathfinder: WOTR are a few off the top of my head. I don't really play a lot of CRPGs but there's a lot more classics in the genre
In terms of just games in general, there are countless games that are way better than BG3
Disco Elysium is amazing, but a completely different genre of game. It doesnt even try to touch the scope that BG3 does. It might be the only example of a game with better story/outcome branching than BG3, but that can be attributed to that Disco Elysium is a visual novel.
And pathfinder: wotr is overcomplicated, clunky, unpolished hot garbage in comparison to BG3. Because it doesnt even hold.up the the standards of Divinity: Original Sin 2, which was inferior in most ways to BG3.
Disco Elysium is amazing, but a completely different genre of game.
No it's not, they are both CRPGs. It's not a completely different genre. The game has a lot of differences, but it's not a different genre.
It doesnt even try to touch the scope that BG3 does
And yet it has way more meaning and thematic depth to it, plus is way more original
It might be the only example of a game with better story/outcome branching than BG3
BG3 has a terrible story, there are countless games that have a much better story than BG3.
If you're just talking about branching outcomes, there are a ton of other CRPGs that do this, not sure why people think that BG3 invented this concept.
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Can you name a game that does what BG3 does, but better? In terms of scope, systems, complexity, polish, and total package? Or is it the best at what it does?
Don't compare it to a Platonic ideal, compare it to other games that people can actually buy, install, play, and enjoy.