Since I deleted Starfield (maybe I’ll redownload it one day) from Steam I’m thinking of getting Baldurs Gate 3. I hear it can be fun if you ignore the gay stuff. Are 1 and 2 worth it? Also gonna look for some older RPGs on Steam or hack and slash
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To be fair to AnotherSchwarzesMark, he is the "next generation" of gamer I've been talking about being the target for ESG.
He did not grow up playing the old games from the 80s/90s so he has no frame of reference of what was good and what was lost with BG3 (or maybe he just wasn't into those games at the time).
This is what the ESG scheme is all about: targeting people without a frame of reference.
It's hard for people to think something is bad when they can't compare it to something of an equal nature that is good. There will be an entire generation growing up thinking BG3 is "awesome" and "cool", and there will be more products made in line that continue to push the globohomo agenda. They will juxtapose their experiences to actual terrible games like Forspoken or Immortals of Aveum and accept globohomo messaging in games like BG3 because by comparison it is better than those other two.
That's how the ESG racket will slowly but surely warp the minds of the next generation.
I didn't play most games on PC at the time, was too young to own a good pc. First good PC game was Morrowind way after the game got released(think all the expansions were out too at the time). I playedmmore N64 and PS1 growing up, Bajoo Kazooie, Mario 64, FF9, Tomb Raider etc.
That's why I am trying to school up on the older ones on PC in the not too distant future. I did play some classics already but not nearly enough. I was there for Mass Effect and Kotor though.
Ah okay, so you were coming up during the time as gaming was going through its cultural shift in the aughts. Makes sense.
The only thing I've found, is that trying to go back and play older PC games now is a bit of a chore because a lot of the PC games just don't hold up. Games that were groundbreaking at the time, like King's Quest VIII, Redline or The Devil Inside, are extremely dated.
There may still be some fun to be had with them but they were more like foundational games for what was to come; learning lessons, some might say. When that was all you had they were super cool, but these days it's tough to appreciate what they were trying to do at the time because of how clunky they feel and how crusty the graphics are, if that makes sense.
You are 100% correct, in a way BG3 was the most culturally damaging game produced in the past many years. I honestly think that if it wasn't for BG3 the pendulum would start swinging back on gaming.