Normally the steam awards winners are real stinkers, but the voters had shockingly good taste this year.

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[+] 17 points 10 months ago (16 children)
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    April had a content patch, 12 new subclasses and it enabled crossplay I believe.

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  • [+] -31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)
  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    No Man's Sky has added thousands of generic resource gathering tasks by now!

    I have tried playing it maybe half a dozen times and come to the same conclusion each time: "This is it?"

    It's a great game for wasting your time in the most banal tasks possible, but not much more.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    How tf does bg3 have Limited replayability? Im on my 9th run! Wtf kind of take is this? Put the meds down pal.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    It's linear in the same way a sony/ubisoft open world is where there is a single main path but there is a massive quanitity of side content as well. The main difference between bg3 and AAA open worlds is that the side content is better than the average ubisoft side content and the main path can take different routes in different playthroughs.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Right... linear... this guy has never played dark urge.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Turning an unplayable ripoff game into something that is maybe worth the steam sale price ten years later isn't a "labor of love" it's mitigating legal risk from it's investors.

    BG3 added a ton of content since release, to the point where they even brought in the entire voice cast to record additional dialogue.

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  • [–] -2 points 10 months ago*

    Unplayable? I bought the game at launch and it played absolutely fine.

    Was it a barren wasteland with fuck all to do? Sure, but it worked perfectly fine, the last decade has seen HG turn NMS into one of if not the most comprehensive space adventure game.

    Since 2016 they have added various additional stuff like VR support, alongside gameplay enhancements (IE: content like building your own fleet, bases, settlements, expeditions, animal taming etc). All for free.

    Conversely, larian has repeatedly stated that they do not want to do additional content for BG3; with every patch release it's "this is it, we're done with this now", and when quizzed on additional content, such as dlc, The studio claims the Devs were elated to cancel BG3 dlc in favour of making a different game entirely.

    Personally, I don't consider the latter to be an indication of a labour of love, but rather an obligation to their fans (because larian are a very good studio, who care for their fans).

    I love both games, but BG3 absolutely did not deserve the labour of love category imo, there are simply far more obvious alternatives.

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    NMS has too many bugs with years of technical debt, incoherent game design choices, broken promises, broken game mechanics, half-baked mechanics, terrible UI, an unrelatable story, and a cardboard universe...

    It just doesn't look like a passion project. HG have made quite a handsome profit from the updates as well.

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