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"

• M137@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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      • Elevator7009@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Eh, I wouldn’t say even mindless fun is easy, from what I hear game dev is hard and a lot of effort and hard work can still end up in something unfun. Probably not your intention but I don’t want to devalue the efforts of people who probably want to make something to help other people enjoy a bit, that I probably don’t have the skill to make myself.

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      • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        i hear talk about call of duty all the time, and especially in its heyday it was talked about pretty much everywhere. meanwhile i only hear BG3 talked about online or from my brother who’s currently playing it. so i think you just proved your own self wrong there. CoD and borderlands are 2 game franchises that are already talked about a lot. hell just look at this own post, its about borderlands

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    • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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• desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  lol

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah and they didn’t cost $80.

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  • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    didnt cost 70 either, like bg3

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