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Elder Scrolls creator Ted Peterson is “glad that people are wanting to break away from” watered-down RPGs as he works on an epic Daggerfall successor (www.videogamer.com)
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With the success of massive RPGs like Baldur’s Gate 3 that actually offer player choice again, Peterson is excited to release his game to an audience that does want more again. After a rough period of RPGs where player choice and ingenuity were watered down, there’s now a hunger for more branching paths and player freedom.

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[–] addie@feddit.uk 5 points 22 hours ago

I think even when the companies have a bit of money, they tend to go overboard. I think eg. Baldur's Gate 3 is actually so long that it's problematic, I would have been quite happy with it at 2/3rds the length it is. Even worse would be something like Pillars of Eternity 2 - it's great, but it goes on forever and didn't make any money. There's too much of it.

Give us more games like Disco Elysium. Not that long, tonnes of replayability, and more importantly, it's different. Really different. And the "moral choices" actually mean something.