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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9095282" data-attributes="member: 18">The difference is that Larian actually demonstrably is an AAA company. You &quot;not regarding&quot; them as an AAA company just means you are being silly, frankly. They just made an AAA game. It's one of the best-rated games in gaming history. You might have heard of it. They had 400 employees working on it.The only AAA game I'm aware of Paradox ever having even attempted is Vampire Bloodlines 2, which is in some sort of wild development hell from which it might never emerge. Paradox's own view, as expressed in interviews/AMAs is that they are not an AAA company, they're a company which makes a lot of AA games.Comparing them doesn't make much sense because they have totally different histories and ways of working.26 reviews is far more reviews than most games get, and is fairly typical for an AAA. This is easy to see - just click on other recent PC games - SF6 - 30 reviews, Resi 4 remake - 23 reviews, Dead Island 2 - 25 reviews, JA3 - 43 reviews (which is interestingly a bit higher, I think because it came out in a gap in the reviewing schedule), the only major outlier I see on PC is Diablo 4 with 89 reviews. I imagine BG3 will go down in time more like 95-96 as it gets a larger number of reviews but the idea that 26 is &quot;a low number&quot; is obviously wrong.Not sure why you're coming out with this counter-factual stuff. It's not helpful.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9095282, member: 18"] The difference is that Larian actually demonstrably [I]is[/I] an AAA company. You "not regarding" them as an AAA company just means you are being silly, frankly. They just made an AAA game. It's one of the best-rated games in gaming history. You might have heard of it. They had 400 employees working on it. The only AAA game I'm aware of Paradox ever having even attempted is Vampire Bloodlines 2, which is in some sort of wild development hell from which it might never emerge. Paradox's own view, as expressed in interviews/AMAs is that they are not an AAA company, they're a company which makes a lot of AA games. Comparing them doesn't make much sense because they have totally different histories and ways of working. 26 reviews is far more reviews than most games get, and is fairly typical for an AAA. This is easy to see - just click on other recent PC games - SF6 - 30 reviews, Resi 4 remake - 23 reviews, Dead Island 2 - 25 reviews, JA3 - 43 reviews (which is interestingly a bit higher, I think because it came out in a gap in the reviewing schedule), the only major outlier I see on PC is Diablo 4 with 89 reviews. I imagine BG3 will go down in time more like 95-96 as it gets a larger number of reviews but the idea that 26 is "a low number" is obviously wrong. Not sure why you're coming out with this counter-factual stuff. It's not helpful. [/QUOTE]

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