Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day"
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How do you know for certain without seeing gameplay or trying it? No one knows what's in the game except the devs.
What if it's OG borderlands and there's no battle pass or microtransactions.
This is more of a don't pre order type thing.
wrote on 23 May 2025, 12:13 last edited byIMO If they made a game exactly like BL1/2 with better graphics and updated gameplay, it still wouldn't be worth $80.
BL just isn't all that great, but fortunately the price of their games falls to what they're worth pretty quickly.
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mindless fun is the best quality a video game can ever have
wrote on 23 May 2025, 12:19 last edited by empricorn@feddit.nlThis is as wrong as Ebert saying games can't be "art".
I love silly, junk-food sitcoms. But I would never say they are the best quality.
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mindless fun is the best quality a video game can ever have
wrote on 23 May 2025, 12:19 last edited byBut that type of fun is something I can get from many other games, making borderlands way less desirable if itโs $80. On the other hand if larian says that their next game is $80, I already know that I wonโt find that type of experience anywhere else and I might just splurge.
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Saying "do you want to play CoD tonight" is different than discussing why the gameplay of CoD is good/new/innovative/whatever.
I actually did see people discuss the campaign of the new CoD (or maybe the one before) because it was actually fairly unique for them. Other than that, the only time I hear about CoD is people talking about how much money it makes, how bad the skins are, or things like that. It holds almost no relevance in game discussion circles because everything they did well has been innovated on since then.
People talked about how smooth and responsive CoD 4 was, because it was innovating. People don't talk about the mechanics of whatever the latest CoD is, because it's not doing anything worth copying.
wrote on 23 May 2025, 16:28 last edited bynot talking about "do you want to play cod" but hey at least people talk about it
whos talking about bg3 besides you here? i havent seen them
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This post did not contain any content.wrote on 23 May 2025, 16:29 last edited by
Guess I will wait for Dale then. I didn't even finish the last borderlands
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Damn. I honestly had no interest in Borderlands anymore, but this has inspired me to pirate Borderlands 4 just as a fuck you.
wrote on 23 May 2025, 16:43 last edited byBorderlands 3 was fun but like a final piece to this genre. Many guns, amusing storyline, corny humor and great world design.
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This post did not contain any content.wrote on 23 May 2025, 17:53 last edited by pyre@lemmy.world
it's incredible that pitchford is still allowed to talk. there should be a bot that auto-responds "shut the fuck up" to everything he says, tweets, or even thinks.
hey I'll let you price this 80 bucks if you fully refund me for the scam that was borderlands 1. fucking unfinished piece of shit, i can't believe i played that game for multiple hours hoping it would improve beyond the first.
and later i learned that i was completely right to quit that shit because the bullshit throwaway story of this "rpg" doesn't even conclude properly. it literally ends like Geraldo Rivera's fucking Al Capone vault.
fuck you pitchford. shut the fuck up and go back to "storing porn for the purposes of researching magic tricks" or whatever. literally never speak again.
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I would absolutely disagree. Fun, maybe. Mindless fun? No. I'm fine with games that are mindless fun, but it isn't what all games should strive for. I personally much prefer games that require your focus and consideration.
Mindless fun is cheap and easy. Making a game that sits in people minds for years is difficult and takes effort, but is much more rewarding. BG3, for example, is anything but mindless, which is why it's been able to still be in conversations for so long after it released. How much do people talk about Call of Duty, even though it sells like crazy?
wrote on 24 May 2025, 01:13 last edited byEh, I wouldn't say even mindless fun is easy, from what I hear game dev is hard and a lot of effort and hard work can still end up in something unfun. Probably not your intention but I don't want to devalue the efforts of people who probably want to make something to help other people enjoy a bit, that I probably don't have the skill to make myself.
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not talking about "do you want to play cod" but hey at least people talk about it
whos talking about bg3 besides you here? i havent seen them
wrote on 24 May 2025, 01:14 last edited by!baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world
I also see posts about it often on !games@lemmy.world, although admittedly I don't pay attention to the usernames of the people who make those posts, or the usernames of the people commenting. But I'd doubt the comments are all just @Cethin talking to themselves
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Eh, I wouldn't say even mindless fun is easy, from what I hear game dev is hard and a lot of effort and hard work can still end up in something unfun. Probably not your intention but I don't want to devalue the efforts of people who probably want to make something to help other people enjoy a bit, that I probably don't have the skill to make myself.
wrote on 24 May 2025, 01:22 last edited byI'm a hobbyist game dev, and I have friends in the industry, and yeah it hard to make anything at all. I meant more that it's easy to conceptualize mindless fun. Implementing either is just as hard really.
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!baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world
I also see posts about it often on !games@lemmy.world, although admittedly I don't pay attention to the usernames of the people who make those posts, or the usernames of the people commenting. But I'd doubt the comments are all just @Cethin talking to themselves
wrote on 24 May 2025, 06:25 last edited bywell you never know with turn based strategy game fan