Comment on The Divinity: Original Sin board game took 6 years to make because Larian was determined to do right by the series

TheControlled@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Their future mistakes notwithstanding, I can still appreciate the good work they’re doing now.

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is true if you ignore that their history starts in the 90s with some pretty average games, not in 2017…

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  • TheControlled@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re thinking too literally.

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• aStonedSanta@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thankfully I’ve loved them for like a decade now so. It’s okay if they topple I saw them rise 😆

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I‘m starting to get the impression people build them up precisely to watch them fall and kick them down. It‘s in our DNA, I‘m afraid. I mean the praise they get for the most mundane claims (and often they are just that) is ridiculous to the point they‘re becoming the developer version of the life of Brian. And deep down we‘re already anticipating to watch them bleed out at a cross.

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Except the Witcher games consistently failed to live up to expectations

  I think they are the next cdpr in the sense that they are AA

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  • UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In what bizzaro world did the witcher series fail to live up to expectations? The first one was a masterclass of atmosphere and had zero expectations, the second were just fine and the third one still is the gold standard for quest design in open world games.

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Third had a pretty buggy launch

      1-2 were just buggy and full of jank

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      • UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Buggy like most ambitious open world games, but still perfectly playable. It certainly lived up to expectations, it was one of the most praised games of its time, more than what I’ve seen about BG3. Granted I don’t follow the industry as closely as I did back then.

        Just because you didn’t like 1 and 2 doesn’t mean they didn’t live up to expectations. CDPR was nobody before witcher 1 and a small studio before 2, so I really don’t get how they didn’t live up to expectations for those two games.

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• toxicbubble@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  same with naughty dog 😂 I’m waiting for Insomniac to screw up next (hopefully not)

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• Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “by making a mistake”

  Is a bit of a understatement I’d say.

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• p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not a good precedent.

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