Losing Gale due to a failed dice roll is nothing like a dlc that's an absurd claim. You can't just reload a save to unlock a dlc. It was that simple for Gale.

Yep, Max is fast enough to be a championship contender in either of the Top 4 teams right now, maybe top 5 considering what Alonso is doing in that Aston.

I also agree that RedBull would be stupid to not choose him over Horner. He absolutely destroyed 4 teammates with this team so far. You know, people that drive the same car, in the same team headed by the same people. The car sure is fast but this combination is all conquering and whatever you say Horner's maybe the fourth person responsible for that right now, and that's conservative.

Is any form of violence or blood a no-no? If you can accept some, Larian (bg3's developper) was already well known for the Divinity series. Many even say that BG3 is kind of Divinity:Original Sin 3 with a DnD license. You'll still be killing some people though. Otherwise, I suggest searching for Turn-Based games which BG3 is. You might like Battletech which is a mech warrior themed game or the X-Com series where there's an alien invasion.

And also, you might have been mislead by the videos. Yes the brain parasite is important but you're really only directly dealing with mind flayers (the tentacle clad monsters) in the very beginning and very end. The rest is just a classic fantasy setting.

Unkillable NPC's, Bethesda style. Yes, yes I would prefer to miss out on content in favour of continuity and immersion.

Bosses that have almost heat seeking effectiveness with their attack. Meaning that no matter how far you go, no matter where you dodge, no matter if you're behind, they are going to hit you if you didn't hit the dodge exactly right to get the invincibility frame. Super huge and slow ass monsters that spin half way through a jump swing to get you behind their back is infuriating.

Menus inside of menus inside of menus inside of pause screens. I have the first Dragon's Dogma as an example. You cannot quit this game without going through three intro screens and their associated music jingle and animation.

Unfortunately, not a lot of people are that involved in the game to care about OGL and its ramifications. Most only want to play what they've seen in Stranger Things or Critical Role, they don't give a fuck about the rent people they watch and like have to pay to WotC. I believe that's what Hasbro is banking on. They will not back out of OGL1.1 as they knew some more hardcore players would criticize them. But the way news and stories are consumed nowadays, they also knew this would quickly get buried by the unending stream of "information" people consume and ultimately be entirely forgotten or ignored. Most people don't care about businesses practices if it doesn't affect them directly. Mix that with the crazy amount of IP crossovers they made in the last couple of years and you start to see how they are setting up a model so basically anyone who's tempted to try table top gaming will most likely be funnelled into their ecosystem.

That's not what I was trying to say though. Not the last part at least.

No, not even remotely. I actually feel worst than ever. But I also feel so paralyzed and hopeless.

What is your question though? Yes online forums exist, yes the information is often unempirical. But what is your question here? What is the "this" you are questionning yourself about? Are you asking why people debate each other? Why people are curious about subjects even though they are wrong? I just don't get what you are trying to say here.

They would because they get paid for it. These people aren't journalists, their job is just to write the favorable articles for the people who paid their boss for it. Whoever gives 10/10 to anything should not be taken seriously.

Yeah tavern brawler STR bonus is just absurdly powerful here, nothing like the tabletop version.

And all of this is because Microsoft execs, or almost any exec, cannot even judge the market they are in properly. They only understand once the money starts coming in, after the selling data is compiled, and then claim it was impossible to predict. They have 0 foresight and imagination. They just cannot fathom a new game can be successful if someone involved hasn't already succeeded to the same level. They don't understand progress and cannot see signs of a good product if you don't tell them how much it sold.

Look at the product, not just the previous financial success. Look at the following (YES kickstarter success IS A GREAT SIGN IT WILL SELL). Look at the actual fucking game they are making since you had three years to check it out before. But they don't because they don't get it, they don't understand their own market. They, like always, based their entire opinion on past financial success and some arbitrary "niche market" they invented anyway. The market is much, MUCH wider that this. Every single gamer in the world plays a wide variety of genres, that is not what makes a game succeed of fail. The quality of them is.

Nobody who looked into BG3 before had doubts about this game's quality. Hell a lot of us are not here because of DnD but because Larian already made extraordinary games in that genre.

Which is a perfect example of the irrelevance of awards, and not just in gaming but pretty much any other subject. The fact I like pizza doesn't influence how much I love cake and people who love soup are also right.