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"

• BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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      • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m a hobbyist game dev, and I have friends in the industry, and yeah it hard to make anything at all. I meant more that it’s easy to conceptualize mindless fun. Implementing either is just as hard really.

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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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      • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        People talk about playing CoD. They don’t discuss the game really, and also this is being discussed because it’s news, and also because they’re being greedy and stupid. Again, it isn’t the game being discussed.

        BG3 people talk about the story, the writing, the gameplay, etc. They talk about how the game is something actually made for players, to be enjoyed, not by business people to make money. They talk about the game.

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      • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        People eat and talk about McDonalds every day, but that doesn’t make it haute cuisine.

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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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