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[โ€“] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

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?

Of all the callow villainry, I wish a comparison to Baldur's Gate 3 was the worst I've heard. I have seen such articles talk about Avowed in terms of Skyrim, which was released closer to Banjo Kazooie than Avowed. No irrelevant remark is beyond them, no matter how patently inane.

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