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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9519446" data-attributes="member: 18">What is though?That's kind of like saying "Yeah he's a good sprinter, but he's no Usain Bolt". True but there probably won't be an RPG better-regarded than or even as well regarded as BG3 for at least a decade. It has a 96% Metacritic. The last story-based RPG or CRPG to score 96% was Skyrim in 2011, or if you don't count that, Mass Effect 2 in 2010. The last CRPG to come close was, hilariously, Baldur's Gate 2 in 2000 (95%), or maybe KotOR in 2003 (94%). I guess it's possible Larian will lap themselves - but they implied their upcoming two games are less ambitious than BG3 (Swen even going out  of his way to correct himself accidentally suggesting otherwise) so I rather doubt it.Personally with DAV, I'd say it's pretty much an 85% kind of game, which is roughly in line with its Metacritic scores. It isn't stunning like BG3, and whilst I liked it better than DAI and DAO (I know, heresy, but I didn't like DAO that much - I felt it was impressive but overrated and it hasn't stood the test of time in the way even older stuff like ME1 or KotOR has), but not as much as DA2, in large part because Hawke had a much more compelling/challenging situation to live through.</blockquote>