• ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    Haven’t watched the video, not even gonna get into the larger argument although I think I disagree

    Starfield shouldn’t even be included here, it’s dogshit in a vacuum, you don’t need something as good as BG3 to compare it to to say it’s bad. In a world where the only video games that exist are Skyrim and Fallout, Starfield is still a dogshit game.

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      11 months ago

      And part of why I think that is BG3 absolutely didn’t ruin Spider-Man 2. Spider-Man 2 was great, I enjoyed every minute I spent playing it. I’m about to 100% it.

      Is it quite the masterpiece BG3 is? No. But that’s fine, it doesn’t need to be. It was still very fun.

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      11 months ago

      you don’t need something as good as BG3 to compare it to to say it’s bad

      But it brings the differences into much sharper relief. I can at least watch a few gameplay trailers and Let’s Play videos, then get hyped enough to go out and by Starfield. But if everyone is fixated laser-like on BG3 because there’s SO MUCH MORE content and gameplay and clever permutations on the current fad to explore… Starfield gives me nothing to work with. I can spend 100 hours churning out BG3 content easy.

      More than the experience of play itself, I think BG3 lends to the streamer demographic and their audience.