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The camera through the first one feels like a stalker perspective, the new one makes it very gamey

That's cool

They'll be constrained by unfamiliarity instead. Admittedly that's easier to deal with though.

Angry players? 180 less countries buying their games? Padded PSN account numbers?

EAC is a Kernel-level anti cheat

True, true, but often you need to scale everything to cater to the number of players.

Cyberpunk with all the pedestrians and cars, for one, but then you'd have to make them consistent between the players too.

It's a lot of processing, but you're right not literally a second game.

Tell that to everyone playing fortnite or other shooters on their phones.

Looks insane and disgusting to me, but to each their own I guess.

Couch co-op can be difficult, because it often means having to run the game twice on the same machine. The devs of Windrush also found that it made it harder for players to keep track of where they were (with a single player they can fix the center of the screen on the player)

That said, yes, more couch co-op please. I'd settle for cheaper second copies.

Nah, they said sorry, they didn't do anything different. They still restricted the purchase regions of the game to those that can get PSN. I expect a return of the PSN requirement for Helldivers 2 eventually.

That's dumb and makes what they did all the more incredible. They would have done better if they'd done their own thing. Though it definitely wouldn't have been as popular. But people will learn this as WotC goes back to wasting the IP rushing out flops.

Something being popular doesn't mean it's good just as something being unpopular doesn't mean it's bad. I'm not saying it's not better than their other titles, but there's nothing specifically remarkable about the BG IP that made it better than if it were in any other setting.

Bigger budget means more people and more time which let you spend more time on the little details. They were capable of BG3 after D:OS2, whether they did it or not. They're still capable of it. There's nothing special about the BG IP that means they can't make a game of similar quality in any other setting.