I think it's kinda weird how obsessed the gaming press is with Larian. I get it, they made one of the best games that released last year, but that's not enough to make an article out of everything they say. It has been months of these articles being on my lemmy feed and they have yet to say something interesting.
The thing is: they didn't just make one of the best games released last year, they made one of the best games released in a decade. I, like many people, had given up hope on ever getting a game with this kind of size and quality. It's normal that people look towards the authors of creative works with such an impact.
Nobody was talking about Larian when they released DOS2, and the only big thing BG3 has that DOS2 doesn't is the animated dialogue (and DnD setting).
To be fair, just that system was a lot of work for the devs and it does wonders for the game; but DOS2 is a freaking amazing game too, it just didn't have the publicity.
If people actually wanted a lot of coverage about the individuals behind those generation defining games, I feel like I would have gotten a lot more of "Miyazaki said..." or "Breath of the Wild dev wrote...". The Larian coverage seems more like a lot of cheap and easy articles churn out by those sites because they can throw in keywords about the currently popular thing and because even the intern can write them since they happen to speak English.
On the other hand articles get made about some EA CEO asshole, some Activision CEO Asshole or some other big gaming coorp CEO asshole...
Ngl, i much prefer to read about people that actually deserve respect instead of some greedy CEO that never touched a gamepad in their life but pretends to understand what gamers want.
So, if i can chose between Larian commenting on Palworld, or Activision Blizzard commenting on Palword, i chose Larian every time.
It was just a short reply about the top played games on Steam (by playtime), but of course it has to be expanded to a whole, useless article, along with a clickbait headline.
Without significant updates, that won’t be true in three months, though. I loved my 70 hours in PalWorld but I don’t get much out of continued play or even new games.
BG3 gives me a lot of options and subsequent things to find out if I play again.