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Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Ashtear@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

CP2077's story is nice but short (for an RPG these days) but the meat is in the world and side missions.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

As I've grown older and busier, I now prefer shorter games. Even when I intentionally try to play games, I may get 2-3 hours a week most weeks. A 100-hour campaign takes me a year to play through.

[-] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Is it one of those "play the whole main story and then focus on the side content" situations or "Save the final mission for later because its a proper ending" situations?

[-] pyrha 7 points 2 months ago

the latter, the main story's final quest lets you know before you start it that's it's a point of no return (though you can also just reload a save from before you do it)

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Doesn't "nice but short but the meat is in the world and side missions" describe most RPGs nowadays?

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Western-style ones, yeah. High-effort side content is CD Projekt's specialty at this point.

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I rarely play any new ones to be honest so I'm not sure. CP2077 just feels for me like they didn't stretch out the main story longer than necessary and put a lot of effort into the world and what's in it.