Well, it's an excellent made game. It's entertaining, complex and challenging.
At the same time, it's very hollow in its content/message.
Since I've put into this game 100+ hours, my partner asked - "do you think it's the best game of all time? Do you think it deserves last year's GOTY status?"
I answered yes, to the latter question. And to the former - I came up with this analogy: Is Lord of the Rings - Return of the King the best movie ever? Remind you - it got all the main Oscars when it was released. Well, I'd say no. It's very entertaining and I love to rewatch the Director's Cut once every 2-3 years, but at the same time - it doesn't change me, or add or subtract anything from my personality/worldview or pardon me - my soul.
I felt the same here - I'd love to play it again in a year or two, but would I call - it the best game ever made? I'm not sure.
Now, when I finished it, I'm thinking - is it worth GOTY status, if I finished the game last year? Actually - I'm not sure either.
Again, it's a great Game, it's very entertaining and I loved my time with it, but I can't feel that it changed something in me like a great piece of art usually does.
Not all games indeed have to have some sort of message (emotional, political, social, personal etc), but for some reason, its absence here was the most evident. Its silence was loud.
People steal, kill, fuck, and lie in real life and dressing them as elves, giths, gnomes, dwarfs or illithids doesn't make it more transcendental, otherworldly or magic. It's like a kinky dress, that the game likes to drop at you, so when you have a sex scene, your character looks "as an object of lust and coolness", at least in the way how Larian imagines it.
The thing is, I don't need my partner to wear lingerie - so I have a boner.
At the same time, it's very hollow in its content/message.
Since I've put into this game 100+ hours, my partner asked - "do you think it's the best game of all time? Do you think it deserves last year's GOTY status?"
I answered yes, to the latter question. And to the former - I came up with this analogy: Is Lord of the Rings - Return of the King the best movie ever? Remind you - it got all the main Oscars when it was released. Well, I'd say no. It's very entertaining and I love to rewatch the Director's Cut once every 2-3 years, but at the same time - it doesn't change me, or add or subtract anything from my personality/worldview or pardon me - my soul.
I felt the same here - I'd love to play it again in a year or two, but would I call - it the best game ever made? I'm not sure.
Now, when I finished it, I'm thinking - is it worth GOTY status, if I finished the game last year? Actually - I'm not sure either.
Again, it's a great Game, it's very entertaining and I loved my time with it, but I can't feel that it changed something in me like a great piece of art usually does.
Not all games indeed have to have some sort of message (emotional, political, social, personal etc), but for some reason, its absence here was the most evident. Its silence was loud.
People steal, kill, fuck, and lie in real life and dressing them as elves, giths, gnomes, dwarfs or illithids doesn't make it more transcendental, otherworldly or magic. It's like a kinky dress, that the game likes to drop at you, so when you have a sex scene, your character looks "as an object of lust and coolness", at least in the way how Larian imagines it.
The thing is, I don't need my partner to wear lingerie - so I have a boner.
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@PapaJaeger
Return of the king is a great movie. What makes it stand aside is the mood. Uplifting, full of vigour. So despite the film doesn't convey any specific message or idea I still can recall the feeling of it. After I finished Bg3 I can't say that I can recall any feeling from it. So even this analogy pays more tribute to the analogy itself
Return of the king is a great movie. What makes it stand aside is the mood. Uplifting, full of vigour. So despite the film doesn't convey any specific message or idea I still can recall the feeling of it. After I finished Bg3 I can't say that I can recall any feeling from it. So even this analogy pays more tribute to the analogy itself
PapaJaeger
2 months ago