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After $90 million driven by Baldur's Gate 3, Hasbro says games will be "huge" for D&D and Larian's hit RPG is "just the first of several new video games" to come(www.gamesradar.com)

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a “mega hit” that Hasbro expects to pay dividends for years

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dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Didnt they say they were looking to sell D&D like last week?

Stock price manipulation.

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Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
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That turned out to be incorrect. From what I remember:
It was one news outlet in China, unconfirmed by anyone else, and denied by all parties mentioned as involved. It could have been malicious, but it also could have been a misunderstanding / mistranslation.

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massivefailure@lemm.ee
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We need more Eye of the Beholder and classic Bard’s Tale and classic Wizardry, and less fucking Baldur’s Goddamn JRPG Story-Heavy Bullshit Gate. Story-heavy shit has basically killed gaming. Go watch TV for your fucking story, kids, and leave games alone.

“Boo hoo games have changed it’s all different now story is good blah blah”. Bullshit. Do you want to play chess and every other move have to stop and be forced to watch a part of some fucking medieval war movie? No? THEN WHY DO YOU WANT THIS IN VIDEOGAMES?

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tiredofsametab@kbin.run
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I grew up on SSI gold-box games, Eye of the Beholder, and other similar games. I think those games would have had many elements from BG3 were it technically possible, if a bit more wargamey in some respects.

I like both, personally

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dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Yeah, RPGs with stories. Who needs em?

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thepixelfox@kbin.social
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Okay okay. So let me get this straight. Story bad. You realise story has been a centre point of gaming for a long long long time.

Second. As someone who has played games for 25+, there’s plenty of games out there if you just want constant combat. Doom for example. Halo. Overwatch. Apex. Dark souls.
Even combat heavy games have stories though. Overwatch has background lore and in game story now.
Doom gotta save everyone from bad alien dudes.
Halo. Stop the covenant using the rings.
Dark souls… Well dark souls is so lore heavy it’s hard to keep up with the story.

So if you don’t like story in games. Well maybe stick to space invaders and leave the good games to people who actually appreciate good games.

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Diotima@kbin.social
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Story killed gaming? Nah… story-driven games are what took games out of the basement and into the mainstream. One can only make so many “I have a gun / sword and I kill the things” games before it gets repetitive.

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conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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You know the story isn’t between moves in combat (with rare exceptions)?

A lot of video game writing is bad, but computers allow storytelling that isn’t possible through other mediums. BG3 is choose your own adventure but actually good.

Also: read books for your stories. 😉👍

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Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
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i wonder why gamers are having a hard time beating the illiterate numbskull allegations 🤔

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caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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What the fuck

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mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
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Incoming Hasbro enshittifying every DnD game from now on with microtransactions and day 1 dlc.

This is why we can’t have nice things. When they come along, the parent company strangles it for profit.

Every

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Time

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Kimjongtooill@sh.itjust.works
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Failed that roll? Reroll for only 300 Haswidgets.

That’s $5 in USD

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LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world
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Upvoting largely because I love the way fuckdamn rolls off the tongue.

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inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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Sigh…just more MBA assholes that don’t understand squat about the industry they lead.

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Destide@feddit.uk
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Without Larian and without the writers of the core books yeah I’m sure it’ll be great totally won’t do a 4th edition again.

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