How did Baldur's Gate 3 sell 20 million copies?

How did Baldur's Gate 3 sell 20 million copies?

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normalfags bought it because it's basically a soap opera

There was a game drought at the time, and it had bro-op support.

This type of kissing gets me harder than full on penis in vagine porn. So hot. Only if its girls though

anyone who likes this animation should be killed

Heigh production value

Accessible

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Perfect for shortfrom content

legendary IP

legendary franchise of this IP

mass effect cutscenes

mass word of mouth marketing

eventually turned into mass marketing by journos

literally no games at the time

truly a mystery

Legendary IP that took over twenty years to get a sequel to, which is usually a red fucking flag. Also that most gamers nowadays would have never played.

Larian are the only people making RPG's that are approchable and easy to play while approaching the depth and complexity of Nethack or similar traditional roguelikes. Other CRPG's are barren in comparison.

the game featured elaborate features

Legendary animation AND artist

it became popular enough that normies bought it

yes, revival of a legendary franchise are perfect to reel in all the normies because they can pretend they played the originals and such

who does this appeal to?

to the 3% of people who would play as a frog i guess

3rd game in an established series built off of an established tabletop franchise

More people are getting into DnD than ever before so that destroys your argument

all woke game flops
BG3 didn't succeed because of woke shit,
it succeeded in spite of it

woke shit

>legendary IP

There is no bigger meme than trying to pretend most of the people that played BG3 also played the originals, at best they just know they're those supposdly famous boomer games they have no intention of playing

took over twenty years to get a sequel

People love that shit, its why so many movies are getting remade / sequels after 20 years.

Hyper polished act one that everyone can play through and enjoy, tap out there, and then never realize that the remaining two third of the game are awful.

give it to me straight, bros
is baldur's gate 3 worth it if you haven't played any of the previous games in the series?
also, what is the modding scene like?

My next playthrough will be as Will because i want to be evil but also do his questline.
But since he is black i will not be doing any romance because that would be white genocide

IP is dungeon and dragons, the most normie IP nowadays, franchise is baldurs gate where everyone and their mother knows minsc and know they are good by osmosis

Side note:

Remember when Palworld was the most played gane on steam?
Today no one is talking about it, like everyone forgot it existed

Same thing with BG3, why is almost no one talking about it today despite selling 20 million?

I've seen more people talk about Mario and TF2 than those two, why is that?

I didnt play 1 or 2 and loved 3. I would say you should play Divinity Original Sin 2 before playing bg3 though, its harder to go backwards after being able to jump around in the overworld of bg3 because its convenient

legendary IP

Wouldn't be surprised if the game would have sold better as "random D&D thing". Normalfags fear numbers bigger than 1.

yes its ok
modding is huge

maybe because you don't leave your bubble

why is almost no one talking about it today despite selling 20 million?

Because you live in denial

Normalfags fear numbers bigger than 1.

Explain Witcher 3 and Fallout 3 then, dumbass.

No one is talking about how 50% of the Steam userbase is now Chinese.

Palworld is still doing alright and there are still people people talking (and seething) about it.

Same thing with BG3

BG3 had some incredible longevity to it. You are retarded.

every single one of my friends can't stop talking about starcraft, does that make starcraft popular? no. It will depend on where you go for discussions

What's funny is that even if he never left Anon Babble he would still be wrong, there's always at least one BG3 thread per day, even if all of them are filled with a certain schizo obsessed with china

let me put your concerns to rest a bit
when a video game is talked about the same shit and in a repeated fashion every single day for years it gets booted from Anon Babble to Anon Babble and the mods seem to prune extra threads. they still get posted daily but at a much lower rate.

does that help?

What do you mean? A lot of people do still talk about BG3. I am more skeptical of horizon zero dawn since that game has 25+ million sales but there is rarely people who talk about it

I argue the contrary, normalfags love numbered sequels of famous IPs, that way they can pretend to know the franchise

I would say you should play Divinity Original Sin 2 before

wew, i'm not a huge gamer and i don't have a massive amount of time these days so i'm gonna have to pass on that but ty for the advice my frens

tfw I will never be forcefully French kissed like this by Mizora

it's a pain I've grown to live with

you're probably one of those retards who goes into threads and calls everyone a shill for talking about a game when it's relevant
now you're here complaining nobody talks about the game

Lightning in a bottle moment where everyone subconsciously just wanted a high budget classic fantasy game. We had two year cycles where everything was a zombie game, everything was a space game, everything was a ninja game. 0 fantasy outside of nomura or nintendo shit. It's the same reason cyberpunk sold so much, there were very few games that just gave you a game from a genre without doing something weird that ruins it.

I'm signing her contract rn so she can do that to me and own me

extremely successful marketing campaign. the game sat in beta with the entire best part of the game (act 1) playable for like a year and only the standard small cRPG audience gave a shit. as soon as the bear sex stuff and articles saying shit like

this game is IMPOSSIBLY GOOD, it can't be the standard going forward!!

it went viral and exploded with normalfags. the post chapter 2 completion rates are dismal for a reason: most of the people that bought this game were FOMO purchases. not that that's strictly a bad thing, i played and completed it and thought it was pretty good, but that's the explanation for how it was such an explosive success.

Got lucky with normalniggers deciding shortly before that D&D is fun after calling it gay and retarded since its inception

Guys did you ever notice less people talk about games 2 years after release than right when they come out.

Wow anon, great observation.

is this actually a thing in game

Was there a "game drought" in the years leading up to its release during which its early access was incredibly popular, too?
Were the Divinity Games, which were also hugely popular, all released during game droughts?

Ignoring the fact that Larian is outstanding is stupid. There's more hype now for Divinity 3, which hasn't even been announced, than for anything down the road for BG3, including BG4, which has been announced.

I think Anon Babble just can't comprehend that one of the best devs in the world right now is also "woke" without having a meltdown.

Palworld has 30.000~ daily players a year after release.
Why are you embarrassing yourself like this?

>legendary IP

>legendary franchise of this IP

By being an amazing game that everyone loves.

BG3 still gets talked about regularly all over the damn place.

Playstation bundles bayber

saying larian was famous is stupid anon, just look at original sin 2 sales

starcraft is still popular, just not on Anon Babble, but even Anon Babble still gets the occasional korea time threads

>legendary IP

>legendary franchise of this IP

BG3 has NOTHING in common with the original infinity engine games and dont try to pretend otherwise because they brought back sarevok for the memeberries. The real Baldurs gate continuation got canned a long time ago

no I'm doing it in real life you fool
oh FUCK THERES A PORTA--A-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

just look at original sin 2 sales

THe most sold CRPG before BG3

grifter...

the only ones making smut with these higher quality models are futa faggots

everything else are lazily animated fortnite and overwatch clips

Only if its girls though

What if it was Griffith or even a self-insert?

I do wonder how many of those 20 million were from the almost three year long early access

holy fucking shit... i never knew girls can kiss like that

no they dont you disingenuous faggot

this means nothing when the genre itself is niche, it's like saying koikatsu party is the most sold h-game

people would rather play it then go here and talk to you abt it

BRAND RECOGNITION!
Baldur's Gate is a recognized brand, a very legendary RPG, so making a game that's based upon it will surely result in success, and oh will you look at that, it did!
Shit like BG3 is why game series get resurrected in the first place, all to capitalize on that sweet sweeeeet brand recognition!

so porn spam rule isn't enforced if it's shit jannies like huh?

You are very retarded if you think people didn't heard about Baldur's Gate before

what about sovl?

Genuine cope, no normalfag that played BG3 has ever touched BG1 or 2

Because it's a great game. Next question

game was casual enough for norms to latch on

???
Are you retarded?
Are you about to sit there and pretend that if it didn't compete with shit like COD, FIFA, and Minecraft it doesn't count as being "popular"?

tfw noone will ever kiss my waifu like this

they *heard* about it, they don't know anymore than that. thats why they don't complain about how out of line larain game is with the orignals, because they've never touched them

anon... do you think people that know pikachu ever played red and blue?

it was a good game

99% of people that played BG3 never heard of divinity no matter how much you cope

Sovl don't pay the bills.
Ahh! But that's the beauty of brand recognition, it doesn't matter if they did or didn't, as long as they recognize that the brand is good, therefore the sequel must be good too!
Yes, people are that retarded.

It gave people the RPG experience they wanted

Don't move the goalposts, shitstain. Back up what you said. Justify your retarded take. Or explain to the class why you didn't spend 30 seconds googling the claim you were about to make to see if it was even correct before you vomited it up.

schizos are incapable of seeing normies buying things just because they heard about it

lmao, you guys need to go out more. Do you think people who knows superman ever read a single comic? BG3 sold millions by brand recognition alone just like every other shitty sequel we get. Hell, just look at the fallout series, the amount of people who played 1 and 2 are probably on the 1% of those who know fallout now especially with the amazon show

Lots of different playstyles, classes (subclasses) , difficulties.

I'm doing honor mode for the first time and really planning out my fights. You can use Astarion to assassinate the whole goblin fort which takes a little finesse, but is fun.

The only woke shit that is "forced" is the lesbian romance between Nightsong and Isobel, but even then you can just kill them. You can literally kill all the gays and blacks if you want.

Out of all of these replies only 2 actually answered my question

sauce

you are very incapable of thinking outside your own world. Do you really think the normie who read about baldurs gate 3 and knew by passing baldurs gate franchise knew divinity existed? of couse not, this is the whole argument, but you clearly can't read

Again, why are you embarrassing yourself?

I wanted to play bg3 but i hate dicerolls so i just went back to madness project nexus instead

Normies fucking love games they've never played.

Normalfags fear numbers bigger than 1.

by now persona already proved this wrong

You first.
Because I know OPs.
not that its hard to find.

Embarasarme myself? Why do you say that?

Larian was never "great"

i llke kissing girls like this...

true

Nyl fell off. He barely releases anything these days.

Its nyl2
please tell me what your gif is from. :(
He does a lot of hyper/extreme sized futa shit though.

divinity what?

Answer the fucking question: In what world is one of the top games released in its year, with a million sales in the first weeks of launch, not "popular"?

You keep having to make up arbitrary tests that fall apart if you think about them for more than a few seconds. Are you going to sit and claim that the NBA2K games aren't popular because most gamers, including most sports game players, don't ever think about basketball because it's mostly an American thing?
Do you realize how fucking stupid you look if we just include China alone in your retarded little tests? China's the biggest gaming market, so why shouldn't we decide if a game is "popular" based on how it sells in China?
There are a million different ways we can apply your smoothbrain logic to adjacent topics and immediately watch it fall apart. So why the fuck are you so stupid and so lazy that you can't even do that?
And you have the nerve to accuse me of being "incapable of thinking outside of my own world"? When you're rigidly stuck in a tiny little box and can't think of even the most basic of external examples?
I challenged you immediately to justify holding every game to the standards of slop like League and CoD and FIFA and you fucking can't. You can't answer anything I'm laying out in front of you while I'm effortlessly shooting everything you say down and spoonfeeding you proof to back it up. At what point will it click that if you were right YOU WOULD BE THE ONE DOING THAT?

Tell that to their awards and sales.

nigga post a metacritic score as a proof divinity is famous

the absolute state

what percentage of people that played divinity also played BG3 in your opinion?

100%

bro wtf is that animation

couldn't stand more than 20 minutes of maldur's gape but I've been playing a DnD campaign IRL and it's better in every way

bg3 threads have actually weakened in the last few months finally, the autist who tried to chain post threads 24/7 finally got tired after a few years.

and what percentage of people who played BG3 played divinity or whichever from the franchise?

I don't like frog lady, she's cringe.

nobody has made a good BioWare-like in like 20 years. it was a goddamn thermonuclear level happening up for grabs. and Larian claimed the bounty.

I hate that you're right

I don't know much about DnD but I hate that the level cap is only 12.
This doesn't feel epic at all desu.

the pacing is good. You hit 12 around the second half of the third act.