@Athrum Yee, i would even extend it to people not playing any proper RPG with actually good writing. Its not necesseraly derogative term i think, at least not for me.
Imagine if youre a football fan for example and you took me to the worst game in history, I, not even knowing any rules, nor watched any good plays would be entertained just because the ball is moving.
Another good example is the Fallout show, completely crapping on the legacy and story of the old games, but “normies” are entertained just because they show a power armor or a nuka cola.
The BG3 characters are all pretry badly written, albeit covered by stellar voice acting, with exception of maybe Astarion and Laezel(both still subpar tho). All with their millenial jokes and jargon absolutely kill any sense of immersion. It all comes out in act3 where, for some reason, the devs really had to tie it to the old BG games with the dead three making the villains flat as all hell and introducing several plot holes.
I agree with you on Divinity tho, while also pretty subpar writing, it has some interrsting characters and definetly held by combat that is actually optimized for a game instead of tabletop dnd.
While the weebeyness levels of most characters are within tolerable limits, i cant get over the blonde prince dude who looks straight up escaping from Team America.
@graymamba Ofcourse people can prefer other things. Also people prefering exclusives on their platform(what some peiple would call fanboism) isnt necessarily bad thing, nobody said that.
Youre doing the same thing, no need to attack my opinion just because i think Yotei was extremely underwhelming. I dont see where i implied that im an arbiter of anything, what a toxic thing to say. Im just expressing my opinion in an internet forum. Isnt that the point of it?
@Ricksta It gets actually a bit too easy after the opening hours. After you get some perks the “survival” elements become non issue and after you train sword fighting with the gypsy sword master, even full plate armored knight isnt a challenge anymore.
It did take me multiple reloads to defeat even a single bandit in the begining tho, its not just you, henry is super weak by design xD
Definetly looking forward to trying the hardcore mode for the second playthrough.
Does anyone even care at this point? Bethesda has been shoveling cow-***** for ages now. Dont think theres anyone whos left blind to this fact after Starfield.
Im super excited, BG3 was amazing, but the dnd formula put into videogame felt restrictive and while i enjoyed the game when it released it didnt age as well as lets say Witcher 3.
Im glad they chose to go back to divinity as it lends them more creative freedom.
I dont understand the need of some people to spam that theyre NOT buying a product under every article. Its like theyre trying to justify it for themselves.
Ad controllers - i must be doing something wrong, but i went thru 5 of em in 3 years
@Chip-Douglas I cant say i agree with the fine, but employers fire people for racial slurs all the time, even those posted on social media. As they should!
The freedom of speech law isnt even about protecting racists, dont think that anyone would want that. Its just thst its too easy to file anything you dont like under “hatespeech” and silence it.
Id personally rather risk offfending someone than silencing someome for jsut expressiong their opinion.
@SeaDaVie Opening an investigation is opening an investigation, its not “having someone arrested”. Thats not semantics, thats facts.
What do you mean the trump administration threatens to sue people? You talking abkut BBC? That was over fabricating video to fit their agenda, not over speech.
Wealthy demanding reparations for speech? Where did you get that? Do you have an evodence of someone actually arrested for speech in the US? The law applies the same to everyone.
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Re: Opinion: The Euphoric Reaction to PS6's Rumoured Delay Really Confuses Me
Whats so confusing? People are poor, just look at PS5 Pro. You have so many people shouting into the air that they dont need it, its ridiculous.
PS6 being delayed gives those people feeling of having the latest hardware for little bit longer. So ofc its celebrated.
Re: Unsurprisingly, Marathon Will Be Part of the Latest State of Play
Concord 3 looking good!
Re: Most of Highguard's Dev Team Laid Off Just Two Weeks After Live Service Shooter's Launch
Anybody with half a brain couldve predicted this…
Still its hard not to feel bad for the people working hard on this that are now “on the pavement” :/
Cant wait to get thru the same thing with Marathon and the Horizon hunter thingy game.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Story Will Continue in New HBO TV Show
@Athrum Disco Elyssium, Planescape Torment, Witcher 3 are pretty much top of the line in that regard imo.
Also like New Vegas, Mass effect to some extend and BG2.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Story Will Continue in New HBO TV Show
@Athrum Yee, i would even extend it to people not playing any proper RPG with actually good writing. Its not necesseraly derogative term i think, at least not for me.
Imagine if youre a football fan for example and you took me to the worst game in history, I, not even knowing any rules, nor watched any good plays would be entertained just because the ball is moving.
Another good example is the Fallout show, completely crapping on the legacy and story of the old games, but “normies” are entertained just because they show a power armor or a nuka cola.
The BG3 characters are all pretry badly written, albeit covered by stellar voice acting, with exception of maybe Astarion and Laezel(both still subpar tho). All with their millenial jokes and jargon absolutely kill any sense of immersion.
It all comes out in act3 where, for some reason, the devs really had to tie it to the old BG games with the dead three making the villains flat as all hell and introducing several plot holes.
I agree with you on Divinity tho, while also pretty subpar writing, it has some interrsting characters and definetly held by combat that is actually optimized for a game instead of tabletop dnd.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Story Will Continue in New HBO TV Show
@RBMango What are you talking about? The writing was absolutely horrible. Cringey with ton of plotholes.
What “made it tick” is that its somewhat faithful representation of the stupidity that is 5th gen. So normies were all over it.
DEFINETLY not the writing lol.
Re: The Last of Us TV Show Might Be Over After Season 3
Thank god, it was worse than fallout.
The only difference is that TLoU2 is already pretty sh*t, but what they did to New Vegas will be studied for generations.
Re: Beyond Good & Evil 2 Director Passes Comment on Ubisoft's Major Reshuffle
Loved the original game. Have zero hopes for todays ubisoft to not royally F it up.
Re: Highguard (PS5) - Jack of All Trades PS5 Shooter Is Fine
@Nightcrawler71 Half Life 1/2 is still pinnacle when it comes to fps. If you want a console shooter Titanfall2 has a really good campaign.
Re: Larian CEO Swen Vincke Sticks His Foot in It Again, Thinks Game Reviewers Should Also Be Reviewed
Definetly! Most peiple giving BG3 10/10 clearly didnt play act3.
Re: Poll: Are You Playing Highguard?
Hell its boring! Really makes you miss original Overwatch too.
No wonder it already lost half its player base on steam. Why do devs keep shoveling this slop?
Re: Prince of Persia Remake and 5 Other Games Cancelled by Ubisoft
Thats wierd, considering the huuuge success they have with AC:Shadows
Re: Talking Point: Did ANTHEM Deserve the Hate?
@nomither6 oh ye 100%, even ME3 is serviceable, but the cracks definetly began to show.
Re: Talking Point: Did ANTHEM Deserve the Hate?
Bioware has been dead since mass effect 2, idk what yall expected.
Re: Ubisoft, Bandai Namco, More Showing Up for the New Game+ Showcase Today
I kinda like this format for game showcases. It has a potencial, what it desperately needs is better hosts tho.
Re: Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined PS5 Demo Is Available Now
@Troubbble This!
While the weebeyness levels of most characters are within tolerable limits, i cant get over the blonde prince dude who looks straight up escaping from Team America.
Re: Sony Patents AI Assistant That Can Help You Beat Games, or Just Beat Them For You
@somnambulance Judging from how long the “pay to skip content” microtransactions like XP boosters are around, quite a lot of people i guess.
Re: The Witcher 3 Really Could Be Getting a New Expansion on PS5 in 2026
Good contender for best game of all time for me.
Id definetly pay for another expansion.
Re: Game of the Year: Push Square Readers' 20 Most Anticipated PS5 Games of 2026
@Northern_munkey That didnt take long huh?
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Re: Game of the Year: Push Square Readers' Top 20 PS5 Games of 2025
@graymamba Well im running into the same problem as you, if i wrote the word i want to id be banned
Altho dismissing my comments and hiding behind personal insults fits the definition of toxic flawlessly.
Oh…. for those challenged in the wits department … in my opinion!
Have a nice rest of the evening!
Re: Game of the Year: Push Square Readers' Top 20 PS5 Games of 2025
@graymamba Aaand you continue to be toxic….
Do i have to put “in my opinion” after anything i say so “people like you” dont assume im stating a fact instead of an opinion?
Re: Game of the Year: Push Square Readers' Top 20 PS5 Games of 2025
@graymamba
Ofcourse people can prefer other things. Also people prefering exclusives on their platform(what some peiple would call fanboism) isnt necessarily bad thing, nobody said that.
Youre doing the same thing, no need to attack my opinion just because i think Yotei was extremely underwhelming. I dont see where i implied that im an arbiter of anything, what a toxic thing to say. Im just expressing my opinion in an internet forum. Isnt that the point of it?
Re: Game of the Year: Push Square Readers' Top 20 PS5 Games of 2025
@SeaDaVie While i dont disagree with what you said,
I feel like the “its way worse over there” argument doesnt really add anything to the discussion about the phenomenon were experiencinf here.
Re: Game of the Year: Push Square Readers' Top 20 PS5 Games of 2025
@SeaDaVie Two things can be true at the same time no?
Re: Game of the Year: Push Square Readers' Top 20 PS5 Games of 2025
@graymamba To be fair Yotei has no right to be in top3 with likes of KCD2, DS2 and even Silksong releasing this year.
There definetly is fanboyism here, its just E33 is so good even PS fanbois cant deny it.
Re: Game of the Year: #1 - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Damn i stand corrected
Re: Game of the Year: Best PS5 RPG of 2025
@Fritz167 KCD2 is like Witcher 3 and RDR2 combined. Insane immersion with amazing storytelling.
If i had to chose one i would probably go with witcher, but it would be a tough choice.
Re: We Wish You a Very Merry Christmas
Merry christmas everyone! 🎄
Re: Game of the Year: Best PS5 Open World Game of 2025
@Ricksta It gets actually a bit too easy after the opening hours. After you get some perks the “survival” elements become non issue and after you train sword fighting with the gypsy sword master, even full plate armored knight isnt a challenge anymore.
It did take me multiple reloads to defeat even a single bandit in the begining tho, its not just you, henry is super weak by design xD
Definetly looking forward to trying the hardcore mode for the second playthrough.
Re: Game of the Year: #8 - Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
@DennisReynolds Agreed, game has special place in my heart as i grew up near Kutna Hora.
While having a bit of a slow start its definetly one of the most immersive rpgs of all time.
Re: Game of the Year: #8 - Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
Uff that is super low, cant wait to see 5 weeb games nobody ever heard of above KCD2 as per usual with pushsquare :/
Re: Game of the Year: #9 - The Alters
Just bought it yesterday before the sale ended!
Huge fan of This War of Mine, so if this is at least half as good ill be happy!
Re: Vince Zampella, Call of Duty Co-Creator and Respawn Boss, Tragically Dies Aged 55
This is so sad, big loss for the gaming industry, what a legend. Absolutely horrible news
Rest in peace.
Re: Now It's Battlefield 6's Turn to Face Accusations of Generative AI Usage
RIP Vince Zampella. What a sad day
Re: Site News: Our Annual Game of the Year Bonanza Starts Now
@get2sammyb 10 seconds too late
Re: Ghost of Yotei Wins Big in PS Blog's Game of the Year Awards
Might be beating a dead horse here, but not as surprising as spider man winning over BG3
Re: 'I Don't Think Prompting Is Art': The Last of Us Co-Creator Isn't a Fan of Generative AI
In the unrelated news… Horsea the horse isnt a fan of the automotive industry.
Re: Talking Point: With Expedition 33 Winning Best Indie Game, What Does 'Indie' Mean to You?
Im more interested in what does “RPG” mean to VGA.
Re: 'The Majority of the Studio's on It': Bethesda Gives an Update on The Elder Scrolls 6
Does anyone even care at this point? Bethesda has been shoveling cow-***** for ages now.
Dont think theres anyone whos left blind to this fact after Starfield.
Re: 'This Is Going to Be Us Unleashed': Divinity Is Baldur's Gate 3 Dev at Its 'Next Level'
Im super excited, BG3 was amazing, but the dnd formula put into videogame felt restrictive and while i enjoyed the game when it released it didnt age as well as lets say Witcher 3.
Im glad they chose to go back to divinity as it lends them more creative freedom.
Re: 'This Is Going to Be Us Unleashed': Divinity Is Baldur's Gate 3 Dev at Its 'Next Level'
@Shinnok789 Astrobot wasnt turned based.
Re: Poll: Vote for Your PS5 Game of the Year 2025
@CrispyMango92 Why vote for game of the year if you only played one game?
Re: Poll: Vote for Your PS5 Game of the Year 2025
I voted for spider man.
Re: The Game Awards 2025 Predictions: PS5 Games, the Muppets, and Geoff Keighley's Shoes
I wish KCD2 won something, at least RPG of the year. But ye otherwise it will be a clean sweep for E33.
Re: 'It's a Huge Upgrade': PS5 Pro Poised to Improve Massively in 2026
I dont understand the need of some people to spam that theyre NOT buying a product under every article. Its like theyre trying to justify it for themselves.
Ad controllers - i must be doing something wrong, but i went thru 5 of em in 3 years
Re: Sounds Like Saudi Arabia Will Own Almost All of EA After Buyout
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Re: Sounds Like Saudi Arabia Will Own Almost All of EA After Buyout
@Chip-Douglas I cant say i agree with the fine, but employers fire people for racial slurs all the time, even those posted on social media. As they should!
The freedom of speech law isnt even about protecting racists, dont think that anyone would want that. Its just thst its too easy to file anything you dont like under “hatespeech” and silence it.
Id personally rather risk offfending someone than silencing someome for jsut expressiong their opinion.
Re: Sounds Like Saudi Arabia Will Own Almost All of EA After Buyout
@SeaDaVie Opening an investigation is opening an investigation, its not “having someone arrested”. Thats not semantics, thats facts.
What do you mean the trump administration threatens to sue people? You talking abkut BBC? That was over fabricating video to fit their agenda, not over speech.
Wealthy demanding reparations for speech? Where did you get that? Do you have an evodence of someone actually arrested for speech in the US? The law applies the same to everyone.