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i hear talk about call of duty all the time, and especially in its heyday it was talked about pretty much everywhere. meanwhile i only hear BG3 talked about online or from my brother who's currently playing it. so i think you just proved your own self wrong there. CoD and borderlands are 2 game franchises that are already talked about a lot. hell just look at this own post, its about borderlands
People talk about playing CoD. They don't discuss the game really, and also this is being discussed because it's news, and also because they're being greedy and stupid. Again, it isn't the game being discussed.
BG3 people talk about the story, the writing, the gameplay, etc. They talk about how the game is something actually made for players, to be enjoyed, not by business people to make money. They talk about the game.
i dont get it. talking about playing a game isnt talking about the game? what sense does that make
Saying "do you want to play CoD tonight" is different than discussing why the gameplay of CoD is good/new/innovative/whatever.
I actually did see people discuss the campaign of the new CoD (or maybe the one before) because it was actually fairly unique for them. Other than that, the only time I hear about CoD is people talking about how much money it makes, how bad the skins are, or things like that. It holds almost no relevance in game discussion circles because everything they did well has been innovated on since then.
People talked about how smooth and responsive CoD 4 was, because it was innovating. People don't talk about the mechanics of whatever the latest CoD is, because it's not doing anything worth copying.
not talking about "do you want to play cod" but hey at least people talk about it
whos talking about bg3 besides you here? i havent seen them
!baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world
I also see posts about it often on !games@lemmy.world, although admittedly I don't pay attention to the usernames of the people who make those posts, or the usernames of the people commenting. But I'd doubt the comments are all just @Cethin talking to themselves ;)
well you never know with turn based strategy game fan
People eat and talk about McDonalds every day, but that doesn't make it haute cuisine.