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Rockstar Games' vice president of writing leaves after 16 years (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about Larian?

[–] Polydextrous@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I dunno, I’m not a huge gamer. I’ve had just FIFA and gta v on my console for years happily. Rdr2 is a newer purchase for me and I love it. But I don’t really like fantasy games, so I’m not really larian’s audience.

I like shooting and driving and open worlds. And soccer. I put off getting rdr2 for so long because I couldn’t drive. I regret writing it off because I was definitely wrong about it

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I thought you were saying they had some similar senior staff depart the company after bg3 released

[–] Polydextrous@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was saying I’ve been hearing good things about BG3 and saw they fired a lot of people to “streamline” the company. I was just deriding capitalism for that insane mindset

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't see anything about Larian letting go of people after bg3 release

[–] Polydextrous@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In related news, as part of its recently publicised cutbacks, BioWare has "let go of" Lukas Kristjanson, the lead writer behind Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, and the writer of the first three Dragon Age games, Mary Kirby.

Oh it wasn’t Larian, that name was mentioned to me so I just assumed from the quote above without rereading. I dunno the connection between larian and BioWare, but they’re obviously releasing games together? Or sharing titles?

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gotcha, so Baldurs gate 1 and 2 were released by bioware it 1998 and 2000 respectively, the lead writer for those games was let go by bioware recently, Larian is a completely separate company that got the IP rights to do BG3 👍 I can see where the confusion came in lo Edit: More context in the development section of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate_3

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

You can "drive" a horse in RDR2 lol