D&D 5E (2024) Wizards of the Coast promises to release more “CRPGs that are going to be as serious as BG3” without Larian

[Morrus]

It probably doesn't bother you if non-white people are portrayed as inferior to white men, innately-evil savages, or mooches and criminals who get slaughtered for your edgelord boner. Or if women in any position of power or authority aren't constantly portrayed as evil, stupid bitches. Or if an entire storyline is about writing queer men as predators, groomers, and rapists. These sorts of tropes probably don't bother you, but you don't care about anyone at the table other than people like yourself anyway.

Anyway, Baldur's Gate 3 is a game that was as serious about its own plot and premise as its white-male CEO was when he said that Karlach would be given a satisfying ending to her storyline. But again, that's what "serious" is in the world of video games: treating people who aren't written as straight white men like Gale and Halsin like total naughty word.

This is your second warning for general namecalling and insulting others. Knock it off, or leave. Up to you, but one of those two options will be happening.

Narrator: Minutes later, one of those two things happened.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Well, @Ruin Explorer already hit the nail on the head in post #35. One circle of that venn diagram is white dudes who like fantasy, action, and boobies. The other circle is women and queer folk who like fantasy, romance, and boobies. The overlap includes people who like fantasy, and people who like boobies. Also, there’s a not insignificant portion of folks like me who started out in one of those circles and moved to the other.

And talking of the dating/sim RPG crossover, one of the most fun games for me, for like a month, at least, maybe two was The Sims Medieval, which was very much "What if the Sims 3 was fused with Quest For Glory" (i.e. not quite a proper RPG, but on the way there). It was a very far from perfect game, but it's funny, I feel like if they made basically the same game now, and just marketed it better (it was astonishingly badly marketed), it would have done big, big numbers.

 

[Parmandur]

Moat extreme example of yhat I can think of is Fire Emblem: a straight up miniatures wargame, not even an RPG really, but with dating Sim elements and permanent for the characters you are trying to get together. A heady combination.

 

[wicked cool]

If not them then who? Seriously there isn’t much competition out there

Pathfinder-nope not enough in budget
Solasta 2- looks good but they even admit just not enough resources

It’s funny how people rant about big companies but yet this stuff is expensive!!

 

[AlViking]

If not them then who? Seriously there isn’t much competition out there

Pathfinder-nope not enough in budget
Solasta 2- looks good but they even admit just not enough resources

It’s funny how people rant about big companies but yet this stuff is expensive!!

Depends on the level of polish you want. I enjoyed Solasta even if it is primarily a dungeon crawl with bad voice acting. But I agree, you need deep pockets to fund AAA games nowadays.

 

[Zardnaar]

Depends on the level of polish you want. I enjoyed Solasta even if it is primarily a dungeon crawl with bad voice acting. But I agree, you need deep pockets to fund AAA games nowadays.

Apparently Claire Obscur expedition 33 was reasonably cheap.

Still tens of million though.

 

[TwoSix]

Depends on the level of polish you want. I enjoyed Solasta even if it is primarily a dungeon crawl with bad voice acting. But I agree, you need deep pockets to fund AAA games nowadays.

If I need a high level of Polish, I play the Witcher games.