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GamesIndustry.biz - The pressure of expectation adds a sour note to
Starfield’s launch - Opinion.
"One vociferous segment of the internet proceeded to lose what little was left of its collective mind – because it’s not enough for Starfield to be a good game. It’s not enough for it to be a pretty great example of Bethesda’s prowess in open-world RPGs. It’s not enough for it to deeply satisfy a niche audience. This was a game in which people had enmeshed part of their personal identity, and it needed to be world-changing; it needed to be the game which would catapult Xbox’s game portfolio onto an even playing field with PlayStation’s studio output, the game whose very name would be the mic drop that would settle any fanboy argument about which platform had better software."
noman wrote on Sep 8, 2023, 23:50:Not the case with BG3.
This article itself has the same problem it's pointing out. It never once mentioned what type of game Starfield is and the fact that it generally got extremely positive reviews with some outliers, or the fact that it's the most successful Bethesda launch ever. Instead, it's taking the internet arm-chair experts and detractors' voice, making it into the overall market's reaction to the game and then trying to explain it, when there is no mystery around such things. Games get bashed all the time and especially when they are trying a few different and new things, angering the 'why is the game same' and 'why is the game not more different' crowd equally.
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