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This was the huge challenge 4E faced and why I think that, despite liking 4E a lot, it was the wrong game to release in 2008. 3E wasn't even a decade old, and 3E had exploded with huge 3PP support. So many people were "waist-deep" in 3E at that time. And 4E comes along and say "Nah throw that...

It didn't actually. Not compared to the other games you named. Pathfinder: Kingmaker sold 2m copies in 6.5 years. Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous sold 1m copies in 1.5 years. There are no more up-to-date records I can find so I presume it may not have crossed 2m copies sold yet. Divinity...

... exactly my point... why are you arguing with me as if this wasn't what I'm saying? My point is that you literally could not have made 5E in 1984, because people didn't have the ideas and reactions and concepts that they do now (or did in 2014 rather). You couldn't have made 4E in 1984...

We have more choices though, so we can achieve more specific effects. That doesn't make it inherently "better", but it does make us able to do things that Renaissance artists could not. We have choices they didn't. And games are not pure art. Suggesting they are is beyond reductive, so is not a...

Oh yeah I remember it verrrrry well. I didn't buy BG3 in EA because I was bitter about how... er... bitter-flavoured DOS2 was, but my brother bought it for me, and I what was I going to do, be an ungrateful churl and not play it? And like a couple of hours later I was on the Larian forums (or...

No I know you didn't, but if you want to talk about clunky arguments, the chess one is way clunkier is my point, and they're both being deployed here. I think you'd probably enjoy a newly-designed simulationist game too, rather than trying to argue against the very concept lol.

What the hell are you talking about: https://www.metacritic.com/game/divinity-original-sin-ii/ https://www.pcgamer.com/game-of-the-year-2017-divinity-original-sin-2/ https://www.pcgamer.com/divinity-original-sin-2-has-sold-one-million-copies/ I could go on. Sorry, but when you're making...

Compared to the constant CHESS CHESS CHESS nah? I'm sorry but D&D (let alone Rolemaster, bless its heart) ain't the chess of RPGs. Nothing will be the "chess of RPGs" for like, 500 years. Chess is only chess because it survived. It's remarkable that it did. We barely know about the bazillions of...

Spoken like someone who isn't thinking hard about how art actually works, frankly. Artistic techniques don't all magically exist forever. They have to be developed. You have to know they're possible. You have to have the tools and paints and so on to make them work. In the modern era, we have...

Why speculate lol? Why not stop, do some research, and find out facts? There's some much unnecessary guessing and leaping to conclusions with your posts on this lol. What's going on? Is there some kind of time pressure? Tencent have an MO - they cruise around looking for Western game studios...

You can keep saying this but it's going to keep being either: A) Wrong. or B) "No true Scotsman". DOS2 was what "set them up". It made incredible amounts of money. It transformed them from a company who were doing pretty good (as they were with DOS1) to a company who were incredibly...

Yes it is, for designing new games. And you haven't actually argued otherwise, you've just made an insulting comparison and an appeal to traditionalism. Monopoly was intentionally designed to be a horrible game, and that mission was achieved, so you might want to pick a different example. We...

I am skeptical that you believe this comparison. As @Umbran says, this is about understanding and conceptualizing mechanics and achieving goals using mechanics, and we are unquestionably better at that now than 20-40 years ago. (Also, as a classically trained artist, you are a being a silly...

Yeah I feel like by making mental stats, especially INT (which was the biggest problem for race/species, too!) just part of your upbringing or somehow worse, occupational background with 5E 2024's Backgrounds (again, I can reiterate this enough, something nobody asked for, and that wasn't...

Yeah it's also possible that "looking like an eye" is only one trick it can pull. That thing scares me a lot. More than the vampire shrimp-spiders, kinda more than an adult drone Xenomorph (which in adult form is really not that different fundamentally from a very smart and aggressive big cat or...

Older design was often or even typically not well-informed by actual understandings of how to design things to meet specific goals. It often didn't think about what actually worked or how it worked and frequently just indulged a creator's whims mechanically, or arbitrarily did things a certain...

It mean, I don't think it would, personally. The Empire has existed at the point A New Hope happens for what, 19 years? It surely wouldn't make much Watsonian sense for an accent to be specific to "Imperials" at that point? Doylistly you could use to "mark out" Imperials but I think you're...

What that makes me think of is that I'd really like to see a simulationist RPG like Rolemaster (in conceptual thesis), but built from "first principles", without assumptions, without "Well this is how Rolemaster did it so...", and with modern design knowledge, modern design standards (which are...

I don't see it as "tonal whiplash" because fascist dictators are often insane clowns (not the good posse kind). Just look at Hitler. An absolutely weird freak. Even if we ignore all propaganda and only look at we know as facts, what he said himself, what people very close to him said, he was...