Baldur's Gate 3's new release date may be setting us up for another Disco Elysium vs The Outer Worlds situation.
On October 25, 2019, a clever, funny game developed by the veterans behind some of the PC's best-ever RPGs arrived to much anticipation and positive reviews. In most other months or years, we might've been smitten with it. But The Outer Worlds had the bad luck of launching exactly 10 days after Disco Elysium, a game that fundamentally reshaped our expectations for RPGs overnight.
I don't know if there are any alcoholic detectives in Baldur's Gate 3, but I wonder if its new release date—movedto August 3, from its initially planned August 31—might end up giving some players flashbacks to the great Disco coup of 2019. With a full month's lead ahead of Bethesda's Starfield, is there any world, any galaxy, in which Baldur's Gate 3 kinda eats Starfield's lunch? I think there might be.
Starfield's has a similar air of familiarity. Its pitch, as an RPG, is not"doing things you've never done before in a game." The pitch is that you've never done things before on this scale—in an RPG containing.
I know that might sound absurd considering this is a sequel to a 23-year-old game, in an RPG setting that dates back to the 1970s—how could Baldur's Gate 3 possibly feel as revolutionary as Disco Elysium did? Or more gripping than Starfield? With as seriously as Starfield seems to be taking itself, I'm immediately more interested in an epic RPG you can
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