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'The Game Just Fundamentally Undermines Itself': Game Designer Breaks Down 'Baldur's Gate 3's Most Fatal Flaws (www.themarysue.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ can be a fantastic experience and a bad game at the same time.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly, it's this part that really bothers me:

Take it from Cory Rodis, a professional game developer, designer, and educator with over a decade of experience in the field.

Clearly from Linkedin and Moby Games, this person does not have over a decade of experience in the field. If you count teaching as "in the field" (which to me, in the field means not teaching but actually doing.) then they have 6 years of experience. Not counting that, they have 2 years.

Also, and maybe I am out of the loop but this doesn't seem to be a semi-major internet publication to me. This is my first time hearing of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Abrams#The_Mary_Sue this is the only information I really found on it's popularity and it seems kind of weak. Am I missing something, is it a really popular site for something like anime or comics?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I see the site posted a lot so I assumed it's semi-major but I dunno it's just an internet news site.

Anyway I agree the "in the field" part is weird. Also the fact that the author knew the "expert" that was cited and the info came from a discord post makes it seem like a bit of a puff piece.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that was the first red flag for me too. Even if it's true, that would mean his experience in game dev is not that much longer than the time it took to make BG3.

But even if we assume years in the industry is not a useful metric, the article makes a bunch of other assumptions. Like saying the player is "punished" by the existence of so many dead end dialogue options. I don't consider it a punishment to not see every single dialogue option a game has. I intend to make the choices in the game that I think are my best option, and if that means I miss out on some content, so be it, that's the experience I got.

But to flat out call the game "not good" us laughable. Particularly from someone so green in the industry.