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Mortmal

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Infinitron you disagree on what? You think avelonne is going to write again?
 

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His work on those games might not amount to much, but that's a different matter. Not too many huge fans of Erritis or Nok-Nok on the Codex.
 

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His work on those games might not amount to much, but that's a different matter. Not too many huge fans of Erritis or Nok-Nok on the Codex.
Im a big Nok-Nok fan, one of the very few companions I liked in Kingmaker, I had no idea Avellone wrote him, now it all makes sense.
 

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You mean he is hired as a name in the credit and to promote those games

If so, that would be a huge waste of money. Chris Avellone fell from grace and his brand became toxic. Granted, he recovered but the name does not have the same level of attraction as before.
'He recovered from his fall from grace' is a nice way of saying "he dragged the lying hags to court and forced them to recant their false accusations".

Of course it won't matter for some studios, especially those striving for a high ESG score, but from the perspective of gamers, especially those that followed the whole case, his name is cleared. Hence it can still be useful in promotion of new rpgs.
 
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ga♥

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Yes, it's a valid criticism. The setting may not be for everyone, and you may prefer something a bit more adult, realistic, and gritty than the Forgotten Realms, something more grimdark like the Dark Company, for example. Ah, it would be good if we had more writers like Avellone writing for CRPGs. But sadly, we will never see Avellone again; he will never write anything anywhere, despite his name being cleared and completely innocent of anything. No one will hire him for fear of controversy. Remember when he was allowed damage and interest, the press article titles were presenting it as if he was the one paying... So it's very difficult to get anything good in this fabulous industry.
If you've tried Kingmaker, there's nothing better in WotR; you already know what to expect, and it's even a bit worse. Sure, you'll hear good things here, but it's fanboyism.

Oh by the way hey ga♥ i said something wrong about wotr and owlcat! Come defend the motherland and defend your honor! You fat fuck unwashed russian lying bag of shit ! Come push your buttons.

It is not the settings, it's the writing which is shit in BG3. You like it because you could not finish Kingmaker, it was too hard so you are butthurt they didn't let you finish on the hardest difficulty without effort like in DOS3.
Glory to Russia forever also Owlcat which is Cypriot!
 

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Yes, it's a valid criticism. The setting may not be for everyone, and you may prefer something a bit more adult, realistic, and gritty than the Forgotten Realms, something more grimdark like the Dark Company, for example. Ah, it would be good if we had more writers like Avellone writing for CRPGs. But sadly, we will never see Avellone again; he will never write anything anywhere, despite his name being cleared and completely innocent of anything. No one will hire him for fear of controversy. Remember when he was allowed damage and interest, the press article titles were presenting it as if he was the one paying... So it's very difficult to get anything good in this fabulous industry.
If you've tried Kingmaker, there's nothing better in WotR; you already know what to expect, and it's even a bit worse. Sure, you'll hear good things here, but it's fanboyism.

Oh by the way hey ga♥ i said something wrong about wotr and owlcat! Come defend the motherland and defend your honor! You fat fuck unwashed russian lying bag of shit ! Come push your buttons.

It is not the settings, it's the writing which is shit in BG3. You like it because you could not finish Kingmaker, it was too hard so you are butthurt they didn't let you finish on the hardest difficulty without effort like in DOS3.
Glory to Russia forever also Owlcat which is Cypriot!
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And given the sad state of the game back then, it was bravery.
 

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Oh crap, my bad. Someone issued a report that they wanted the thread title changed and I forgot about the nature of news posts.

Edit: Actually, it's probably just time to go ahead and make me an administrator.
 

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I'll leave just one fun fact for now: Codex hates Bethesda more than they hate Diablo.

Of course they do, you bloody faggot. Oblivion (2006) and Fallout 3 (2008) were almost single-handedly responsible for the decline of CRPGs. Nothing unusual about that. Fun fact lol. You are a fucking fake aren't you?

Can't you write even a single post where you aren't an absolute cunt?
 

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