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I'd add Black Myth: Wukong and Space Marine 2 to that. But the counterpoint is naughty word Black Ops 6 being the most profitable game of 2024 (by dollar amount).

I don't disagree. One of my annoyances with the BitD community is the amount of fans who tell new players - particularly those coming from D&D5e - that they need to "unlearn bad habits". Habits and techniques picked up from running/playing D&D may not necessarily be conducive to running/playing...

PbtA games' GM Principles seem to me to be a explicit codification of what has generally been considered GM best practices. They're like the GMing equivalent of painting by numbers - that's not meant to be disparaging; paint by numbers kits exist for reason. People often think that creative...

I think we're going to need a citation on that one.

Well, this certainly puts a new spin on the class war. Wonder what sort of GM King Charlie would be.

Yeah, I noted that. Main campaign, cast, setting and system are all contributing factors. My musing on hypothetical miniseries was to acquire data on which is/are the more significant.

Yo dawg, I heard you like sandboxes, so I drew boxes in your sand so you can box sand in your sandbox.

You think the Baldur's Gate moniker was a larger draw than the D&D IP? No. The previous instalment was 23 years ago, and 5e was already massive when BG3 went into development. I have no such misunderstandings. I'm well aware that video games absolutely dwarf RPGs. They overtook the movie...

That is a potential contributing factor for why the miniseries don't hit the same numbers as the campaign, but doesn't explain ExU dominating the other miniseries, since it also has partial main cast.

Where are you people finding such stable groups?! Stop hogging them!

BG3 completely outshone both Solasta (as the fellow D&D game) and D:OS 1+2 (as the fellow Larian games), it was clearly the combination of D&D with Larian's efforts and dedication.

While they didn't make up the bulk of the playbase, I'd argue it was absolutely D&D fans that were the catalyst for it's success - they were the ones who bought it in early access and sang it's praises. Pillars of Eternity was made by Obsidian, not Larian. Larian's previous game was Divinity...

I looked into the views for the various CR content a while ago, and there are some conclusions that can drawn based on them, as well as speculation. The main campaign gets the most views by far, naturally. The one-shots all get pretty lacklustre numbers in comparison, including the D&D battle...

I said he's a D&D diehard, not that he's locked into D&D. "Those are not the same thing." I'd argue he has Pathfinder brain, as evidenced by his homebrew.

I mean, in the penultimate episode (or maybe the one before) of Campaign 3, he literally squeaked "I love D&D!" like an excited child. That's after Daggerheart was well into development, after the OGL fiasco. The only thing the man loves more than D&D is the people he plays it with.

Not only that, but they were playing Pathfinder 1e before moving to D&D5e for streaming, Matt was playing 3.x before that, and as we've seen from when he ran Monsterhearts and Candela Obscura, he really doesn't grasp that style of play. Matt is D&D diehard through and through.

Oh, man. That adds a layer of context that's totally missing in the English version. It comes across as Green Destiny just being a fancy sword, so she wants it because why wouldn't she. I'm wondering if this warrants a signature ability to pair with it. But I'm drawing a blank for what, right...

Absolutely. By "worse", I of course mean: I liked less. And it's precisely for the observation you mentioned - straying further from the tactical combat. I do think DA2 gets far more hate than is deserved. I actually welcomed the more personal, smaller scale story because I'm sick of end of the...

That's quite the ordering. Personally, I've thought each game was worse than the one before, regardless of polish.

You are the one conflating things here. Logic - or, more accurately, logical reasoning - is a process of reaching a conclusion based on drawing from inferences and making connections. While it's true that starting from a flawed premise will result in a flawed outcome (garbage in, garbage out)...