Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day"

NotForYourStereo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  he did though? borderlands 1, 2, pre sequel, and 3

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  • M137@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m a Borderlands fan, but it absolutely isn’t even in the same universe of quality as BG3. Borderlands is dumb, pretty shitty and lost quality with each game. It’s mindless fun, like B movie popcorn flicks.

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    • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      mindless fun is the best quality a video game can ever have

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      • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I would absolutely disagree. Fun, maybe. Mindless fun? No. I’m fine with games that are mindless fun, but it isn’t what all games should strive for. I personally much prefer games that require your focus and consideration.

        Mindless fun is cheap and easy. Making a game that sits in people minds for years is difficult and takes effort, but is much more rewarding. BG3, for example, is anything but mindless, which is why it’s been able to still be in conversations for so long after it released. How much do people talk about Call of Duty, even though it sells like crazy?

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      • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        But that type of fun is something I can get from many other games, making borderlands way less desirable if it’s $80. On the other hand if larian says that their next game is $80, I already know that I won’t find that type of experience anywhere else and I might just splurge.

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      • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        This is as wrong as Ebert saying games can’t be “art”.

        I love silly, junk-good sitcoms. But I would never say they are the best quality.

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  • NotForYourStereo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Damn, I’m sorry.

    Hope you get to play something that isn’t pure dogshit one of these days.

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    • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      what game would you consider “not pure dogshit”? seriously, what games? give me a list, because if an acclaimed franchise that was widely praised and birthed a literal genre is considered dogshit, then what isnt dogshit?

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      • omarfw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        borderlands wasn’t the first looter shooter. that was hellgate london.

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  • desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    lol

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah and they didn’t cost $80.

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    • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      didnt cost 70 either, like bg3

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