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Best RPG Disco Elysium Final Fantasy XIV Kingdom Hearts III Monster Hunter World: Iceborne The Outer Worlds It's not been a good year has it... I've never even looked at or cared about these sort of awards. All awards in general are nonsense and populaity contest really. But just looking at all the nominees... Yeeeeeeeeesh. I'm trying to think what else came out this year, looking down the wikipedia list and it looks like most of the releases were remakes/reboots/remasters/etc.

A big flaw of BG2 for me is that there is just so much stuff to do straight away (After initial dungeon). I think some of that content should have been gated behind other quests. And some of the harder ones should have been available after Spellhold. Breath of the Wild is probably the best example of an open world game... it uses it all to its advantage and doesn't just make it open world for the sake of it because that's what is popular. I think Deadfire would have benefitted from a lot more linearity. I feel like they make some of these games 'open world' just to put that on the features on the advert.

WoW Classic is the best game of the year... and it came out 15 years ago.

So is this basically Honey I Shrunk The Kids the game?

I mean I was sort of half joking, but I genuinely think it would have done better with that sort of advertising.

Actually... after thinking about it some more. I think it's because they didn't have any women in boob plate armour on the front. The sales probably would have shot up if they had a few barely clothed elves on the adverts and posters and what not.

Still havent completed poe1 and I bought poe2 and all expansions. Still havent completed poe2 or entered any expansion. I rarely complete game now tbh. But still play a lot of it. I mean to complete them one day at least. Anyways, I didnt find out about poe2 til I just happened across the fig searching for something else. I think the kickstarter for poe1 has a massive effect. Right place righttime type of thing.

Marketing.... or lack of it. Not sure how big the market is for this type of game anyway. Don't compare to DOS2 as it's completely different.

Shoot them in the face.

Let's have something new, put this series on the back burner. HARD SCI FI RPG! Just keep dropping it in hopefully someone will read it and get inspired.

That is a lot of text... will read it next week. I'm curious what people consider 'good writing' in games. I think BG1/2 have really good writing, it suits the game and Forgotten Realms. It's funny and interesting, it's not a shining example of fine writing but it works for the game. Does every game need to strive to be War and Peace or whatever? As long as the writing works for the game, isn't that good enough? I think 'The Beach' is a fine piece of literature, my favourite book i re-read every year or so... because it serves the story and characters well not because it's something that needs to be studied in literature at university. I still Like 1984 and Brave New World but I won't re read them anytime soon. The Sopranos has fantastic writing, it's funny and keeps you engaged. But it's mainly swearing and talking about food!

I wasnt entirely enamoured with the first game. Deadfire is a massive improvement... for me.

Maybe they can't be bothered anymore, I can't be bothered either.

Did people complain about Dorian in DA:I? He is my favourite character, i don't think him being gay is shoved in your face at all.

I prefer not having a voice, similar to Dragon Age/KOTOR/BG etc. Feels more personal to me. I never felt like Shepard/Hawke/Inquisitor was MY character. Edit: That being said, I still like Shepard as a character and think it worked in those games having more of a defined character. I guess it depends on the game.

TOW's combat is better than Fallout 3/NV/4 IMO. Not that it's saying much as the combat in those games were pretty awful.

There you go, apparently if you make anything a first person shooter it will be successful.

Have you got a degree in finance or marketing?!? If not I dont think they care about what you have to say.

Like Chemist from FF Tactics or something? Or Orator... i forget the rest.

Hmm... how do you get the motivation to immediately replay a game you rushed through in a week? Takes me years to muster the will to replay games i've completed.

I thought all the Grieving mother stuff was boring, pretentious twaddle.

Why would you reply with a logical and thoughtful answer and not an inane rant?

'Woke', 'boomer'... my god. This forum is really going down the toilet.

Ya know I was against all this SJW crap but i've been thinking.. who cares? As long as the game is fun does it really matter?

Okay after reading all this feedback and finally playing myself... I felt completely overwhelmed by the amount of options and whatnot within minutes, so not really sure where the criticism for lack of options is coming from. Graphics look fine, plenty of choices SO FAR. ONLY played for 30 mins yeah. I changed the FOV a bit and don't feel too bad but still a bit wishy washy. The game seems alright so far anyway.