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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)
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[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

It failed because it was boring.

It famously had people saying "once you get past the first 12 hours, it gets good" it had nothing to do with the setting. The sci-fi setting was literally what drew people to play it in the first place....

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