Mm, is that why Silent Hill 2 sits on ‘Overmevmingly positive’ while still plagued by serious performance issues?

The statement is simply not true; gamers are willing to swallow just about anything if sold correctly.

A) Article isn’t available

B) Before the garbage article was taken down, all it did was source an eurogamer article from 2012 when the law changes first where made

C) y’all wasting your time

I think this is more likely some bizarre attempt at making the AI anti-racist.

I would consider The Witcher 3 a masterpiece as well, far from a linear experience. And I love Fallout, so I know what a good turn based compat rpg is like. And few games have had me so on the edge of my seat as Xcom 2, so I know what an excellent turn based combat system is supposed to be.

BG3 just doesn’t live up to that. The polish fails it, and the combat is just not very fun. The role playing is excellent as long as the other things don’t get in the way, which it does.

I’m aware, but no, it’s not a pause since it can not be used to pause the game, for example, when in dialogue.

Most of the time, it’s not even turn based. You run around in real time, or did you forget that?

I’ve missed dialoge since I can not pause a conversation in a single player game ffs.

I’m trying to get a refund from GOG, after spending nearly a month truly working my most to love the game, to understand what makes people say Baldur’s Gate 3 is a masterpiece.

People said Read Dead Redemption 2 was a masterpiece, and I found myself in agreement. Same with Half-life 1, 2 and 3 (Alyx).

But the almost overwhelming attention to every detail and aspect of those games I cannot see in BG3. Everything from janky animations, buggy combat pathing, awful tutorials, visual glitches, the worst journal I’ve seen since Morrowind, and no pause button in 2023!!

Ironically, nothing of which this article brings up since it seems to shit on save scumming which I don’t care about, all power to the player.

You cannot argue this game is ‘bad’; the story and characters along with competently designed game play would prove that. But it’s no masterpiece to me, and I feel I fell for the the overhype from the fans who just love the franchise.

No game should be buggy, of course, but since I have access to the devkit and console, whatever breaks in game, I can fix.

Compare that to Cybepunk 2077, which is still a buggy pile of garbage, and that game I can not fix since there are no distro of tools to do so.

It’s not optimal either way, but the former I can work with and the latter I can not.

It probably will be just like every big bethesda launch title and you bet it’s going to be buggy too, but guess what, I don’t mind because I’m going to mod that sucker until it’s good enough for me.

That’s the beauty of Bethesda titles.

Capitalism sucks.

All the greatest games ever made were created in capitalistic economies so i cannot see how that is a determining factor. I don’t know what games your thinking of. Tetris?