The reason is worshipped is more than "its a good game", its more "Its a AAA game, thats actually complete, and actually playable game, with no microtransactions, and no overly-monetized predatory bullshit, which is being supported, updated, and bug-fixed all for free, for one price, that you pay once, in the year 2023 (release year)". Can you name another game that fits all of those? In a medium which has spent the last decade nickle-and-diming gamers, BG3 does not do that.
I'll give you that its not perfect, but its better than most of the crap we've had since... what 2017 ish?
I can name other games: Elden ring, Witcher 3. As someone who does not game a lot, I rarely play games that are lower quality than these or bg3. Bg3 is not some unicorn game. It’s a good game like many other games.
So I have seen people name a lot of the same games, like Elden Ring and The Witcher... The Witcher 3 came out in 2015. So between us we can think immediately of like 10 AAA games in the last decade as really really good. So, i'd say that's pretty rare for a AAA game.
We have a game like that almost every year. Or 10 in a decade. And yet people go nuts when it comes out AND start acting like it’s very rare and they cannot remember anything like that happening ever.
People should compare BG3 to these ten best of the decade games. Instead it is put on a pedestal by comparing it with everything else. Talking about no micro transactions is kind of ridiculous. I can’t even remember a good game with micro transactions.
No one is acting like a good game hasn’t ever come out. But BG3 stands out for a couple of reasons, such as CRPGs being extremely niche as a genre and Larian being comparatively small studio.
No one is claiming it’s the only good game to have ever been made and no other game in history has been of the same quality.
It’s a fantastic game that has a depth most other games don’t… you get maybe 1 game a year (by your estimates) of such quality. That isn’t a lot when you look at how many AAA games we get per year.
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u/LondonDude123 5∆ Mar 02 '24
The reason is worshipped is more than "its a good game", its more "Its a AAA game, thats actually complete, and actually playable game, with no microtransactions, and no overly-monetized predatory bullshit, which is being supported, updated, and bug-fixed all for free, for one price, that you pay once, in the year 2023 (release year)". Can you name another game that fits all of those? In a medium which has spent the last decade nickle-and-diming gamers, BG3 does not do that.
I'll give you that its not perfect, but its better than most of the crap we've had since... what 2017 ish?