[izacus]

That seems just nostalgia / survival bias. There was plenty of garbage licensed trash through the history and you only remember the good ones.

Same now - we live in the era where games like Witcher 3, Firewatch, Pillars of Eternity, Sunless Sea, Banner Saga, Horizon: ZD, Alien: Isolation, Wolfenstein, Yakuza and many many more exist. Of course you need to actually look beyond the most advertised ones... but then again, you do go looking for the best thought provoking movies in summer blockbuster lists do you?

[haolez]

I strongly agree with you. We had a lot of crap in the past, but there were some gems like Chrono Trigger.

However, I seem to be the only Baldur’s Gate fan that didn’t like Pillars :)

[adwf]

Yeah I couldn't quite get into Pillars in the same way as BG or the other old infinity engine games.

I feel like the writing, quests and general world building was really quite good - but the overall gameplay was a bit of a let down.

They abandoned the traditional d20 system in favour of a custom model which really didn't feel right. For instance, barbarians needing high intelligence because that was the stat that extended area attacks. Or mages being fine with heavy armour and high strength, whilst your fighters were seriously hindered by armour...

Just felt like a really weird system that they never quite worked out. They were trying to be different just for the sake of it IMO.