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Baldur's Gate 3 won so many awards that it started to "affect development", forcing Larian to send "rotating teams" of devs to ceremonies (www.gamesradar.com)

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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 126 points 10 months ago (1 children)

sufferingFromSuccess.jpg

[–] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 10 months ago

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 79 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Okay we can't keep having to go accept these rewards, it's wrecking our production flow. So we hired Larry here to be our official award acceptance guy. Oh and those new shelves have been finished so we'll be getting all the trophies out of the break room by tomorrow.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 63 points 10 months ago

First name: Larry

Last name: Ann

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Larry actually goes to award ceremonies and says "wow guys, we are so thankful for this award but can't accept it. Like, literally can't. There is no more space to store them, Jim had to give up his office and the cleaning crew is complaining too. So yeah, take this back please"

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Could you give us, instead of yet another reward, some competition? Like, any at all? We want to do even better, but have nothing to compete against. Please. We can even pay you (in free trophies, no micro payments needed).

[+] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 72 points 10 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 68 points 10 months ago (2 children)

when has Todd ever listened dude. he's too busy working on a game that takes 1400 hours to fully explore but has 2 voicelines repeated a billion times whenever you walk by an npc.

meanwhile a 25-person studio like supergiant records like 20 different voicelines for when you pause during a certain situation in their early access game.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Oh, he's got access to Miscrosoft's arsenal of AI resources now.

So expect 4000 hours of gameplay (or 2 hours of gameplay repeated 2000 times), and a load of NPCs that all sound like voice assistants.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bethesda is one of the few studios where that would be an upgrade in writing. I'm so sick of their half-assery.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 10 months ago

I enjoyed Skyrim I'll be honest, but that was a long time ago now. In that time we've had The Witcher 3 moving the goalposts and Baldur's Gate 3 putting them on a different planet altogether, and the idea of a sea of badly lip-synced talking heads telling me to try to find their obviously dead relatives who've gone flower picking in Murderfang Cavern just isn't going to cut it in 2027 or whenever Elder Scrolls 6 is supposed to be out.

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[–] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Have you ever been to the -

Quicksave

cloud district?

Voiceline interrupted due to sudden axe-iddent

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I love how to get like 85% of the shit in Morrowind into Morrowind, members of the team would just gaslight Todd with actual shitty shit so when they showed him what they really wanted to do, he was like "yeah ok, just don't do that other shit you showed me."

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago

Where can i find news about this?

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 59 points 10 months ago

This is the industry's plan to finally catch up to Larian. Sadly, they still haven't figured out what they actually need to be doing with all of that free time though.

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 54 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And the best part:
Larian isn't going to get shut down by some shitty vulture capital firm which bought up a ton of studios and then killed them all when times got tough.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 18 points 10 months ago

No you forgot to step or forcing them to develop a crap game with a bunch of micro transactions that no one buys because it's full of micro transactions. Then they shut the studio down for being unproductive, never mind that it was made unproductive by their decisions.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

Videogame Industry First World Problems

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm still having so much fun with this game that the lack of DLC hurts my feelings, lol! I'm just amazed they didn't give Larian a blank check to do anything DLC wise once the awards kept flooding in.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh, they definitely could have done DLC. But they didn't want to. They just didn't feel like it. And I think this shows how great this studio is. Instead of making a shit-ton of money with some mediocre DLC they instead opted to follow their passion.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think any DLC would have been far from mediocre. Given how much post release support they've done, I have no doubt DLC would have been stellar. But that's my point, the passion for the core game is so clear! But I'm excited to see what the mod community can do with good tools.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

Might just be my opinion, but DLC in this game would've had to be what we used to know as an expansion pack. Think Age of Empires games where the expansions added completely standalone campaigns.

[–] OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Im currently on my 3rd playthrough once I found out you can recruit Minthara as good guys:X. I learn alot of new things every playthrough.

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