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Something tells me this might not be a good year for games... (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think Baldur's Gate 3 exceeded expectations for many people.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The key word here might be "large-scale" which to me sounds like the production-line games like CoD.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

BG3 is large-scale. It's a AAA game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Larian has 450 employees and studios in 6 different countries.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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.