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complimentary shaders is what you want. they are lovely and they even come with potato PC options.
they also do reimagined (which is like normal minecraft but better) and they do Unbound which is updated water animations and smoother sky textures, etc.
they run great. i run them on my steam deck and they look beautiful.
eww. paywall. gross. here:
Baldur’s Gate 3 has been a huge success since it was launched last year
John Mulligan
The holding company for Belgian-controlled games studio Larian, which runs its revenue through its Dublin arm, posted a €249m pre-tax profit last year as the major success of its Baldur’s Gate 3 title supercharged its sales.
The company, which was founded by chief executive Swen Vincke in 1996, operates studios in cities including Dublin, Ghent, Warsaw and Quebec.
Mr Vincke owns virtually all of the ordinary shares in the holding company, but a unit of Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent – which owns major stakes in Fortnite owner Epic Games and other gaming ventures – also has a large chunk of preference shares in the firm.
The Tencent division, Tencent Cloud Europe, has been an investor in Larian for a number of years.
Accounts just filed for Larian Group Holdings in Ireland show that its revenue soared to €427m last year, from €22.7m in 2022.
The bumper profit it recorded last year compared with a €214,000 loss the holding company made the year before.
Its turnover and profits fluctuate over the lifetime of its games titles and their development.
Badur’s Gate 3, based on Dungeons and Dragons, has been the most successful of the company’s titles to date, selling around 15 million copies. It gave the holding company the financial muscle to pay a €28m dividend this year.
Launched last year, the title wasn’t initially expected to achieve the level of sales that it did.
The game had been in development for years and came to the market in August last year. It won numerous industry awards.
“We’re in the luxurious position now that we can pick our own destiny and our own path, which is really cool,” Mr Vincke told video game website IGN in September.
“So I hope we can sustain that,” he said, adding that he has two main goals for the studio. “Being able to make things we like to make and making sure that it’s sustainable so we can continue doing so.”
Swen Vincke (centre with arm raised) and the Larian Studio team with the Best Game Award for Baldur’s Gate 3 at the BAFTA Games Awards 2024 in London last April. Photo: Getty
The intellectual property for Baldur’s Gate is owned by a company called Wizards of the Coast, which itself is owned by games company Hasbro.
Releasing full-year results for 2023 earlier this year, Hasbro said revenue at Wizards of the Coast rose 10pc in the year, driven by increased licensed digital gaming revenue from Baldur’s Gate 3 and another title by a different studio.
Baldur’s Gate 3 contributed $90m in revenue to the Hasbro unit for the year.
But Mr Vincke said last March that Larian would be ending its partnership with Wizards of the Coast, meaning that no new Baldur’s Gate game is in development, although the studio is working on other projects.
The success of Baldur’s Gate 3 has continued, however, meaning that Larian’s financial performance this year is also likely to be strong.
Larian’s publishing director, Michael Douse, said this week that the performance of the game this year has exceeded that of 2023. It has 20pc more active daily users this year than last, he said in a post on X.
“I am also happy to announce we have achieved one more sale in the Holy See, the Vatican, itself,” he added.
she is canonically one of the most bratty, self serving characters in the series.
she acts like she’s hot shit until her plans go wrong, then she cowers and freaks out. she’s absolutely obsessed with getting her way. she tries to play like emotions are weakness, then instantly caves to her own because if its her emotions its different somehow. “Oh no the consequences of my actions?!”
Morrigan isn’t even as cool as Flemeth was. She’s a shitty power-grabbing dick who stomps her feet when she doesn’t get what she wants and behaves like everyone should worship the ground she walks on.
how tf is she the greatest RPG companion of all time, exactly? she’s not even a great companion in Origins.
i am also having a blast. i was afraid when I heard some things like exploration got streamlined, but after playing I relaxed. they nailed it.
I’m so glad that EA took the shackles off and let Bioware cook. cause I’m already planning another playthrough after the first one.
i agree with judging it on its own. it has some strengths from other games in the series and improves on so many areas. even little improvements to things most people don’t even notice.
its great and I’m having fun.
the thing about terraria is that the devs love to play as much as the players. so they love the game and are always interested in making the experience better. not just for the players but them too.
they’re also not a massive corporate run, shareholder-pleasing company either. so they actually listen to suggestions from fans. it’s the best.
…I am one of the rare souls that loves Andromeda. 😅 I literally play it more than the trilogy. its less depression inducing and the combat is actually fun.
Also i really hope they’re not going to make me kill Solas. It took me a long time to warm up to him and I would prefer to not kill my friend. =( even if he is a jerk. he’s like our jerk.
there is a very weird and toxic mindset with some dragon age fans. they say Origins is the only good game in the franchise and will fight or otherwise shit talk anyone who enjoys the other two games. it seems to go beyond fandom and even past obsession.
BG3 is such a massive experience that many have been insisting that BG3 is what dragon age sequels “should have been”.
i have loved all three games in the series and I have never seen the point of the toxic obsession with Origins.
Origins is excellent. but all of them are in different ways.
this author appears to be of the obsessive Origins camp. which usually turns me off to whoever starts ranting about it.
i like totk more, myself. but I get you.