Breaking News: RPG does what all RPGs do but we will compare it to only what one well know RPG does instead of simply saying it's an RPG that does RPG things.

They could have said any other recent RPG game and it would have applied. Using Baldurs Gate 3 is probably just because Avowed is in the Pillars of Eternity world which was another isometric game, but still it's just an RPG. It could just be channeling Pillars of Eternity instead of Baldurs Gate 3. Why do we have to use Baldurs Gate 3 for every comparison out there?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Personally, I find it frustrating to see the buzz Baldur's Gate 3 gets because I remember a time when games like BG3 weren't a rare sight. I mean, shit, BG3 is just a logical evolution from BG1 and 2. It's got modern graphics, modern UI, modern controls... Same basic gameplay, same kind of choice that can lead to many replays because there are so many ways to do any given quest, etc.

It isn't that BG3 isn't deserving of praise; it definitely is. But the fact it is like a breath of fresh air shows just how awful the industry itself is. They didn't do anything that hadn't been done before, and instead went back to old-school roots and fucking dominated the scene by simply not making their game watered down garbage with a lack of agency.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

I hadn't really thought of it that way, but you're right. I think it happened around the time every action genre starting introducing "RPG éléments" to the point that they became de rigueur.

It was only natural that RPGs themselves would borrow back from the action genres that were borrowing from them.

Anyway yeah, it's nice to see a big RPG bring just an RPG.

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