Anon01/19/26, 01:43No.3911992
Absolutely. Popularity is responsible for the insertion of contemporary social issues, responsible for dialogues being more modern and full of silly quips (which often breaks setting immersion) and it´s responsible for the simplification of game mechanics.Popularity is also responsible for unfocused development and allocation of resources. They are literally focusing on customizing genital size when that time and money could go to creating additional classes, races, spell animations, crafting systems, adding companions, maps, adding a dungeon master mode... i mean there are so many things more important. The sex scenes are not even explicit for fucks sake, heck, some RPGs give you insane customization options only to then become first person experiences.Sadly if the games were not popular presentation suffers considerably. Take CRPGs for example, the pathfinder games have the more complex builds and better mechanics but are less popular than BG3 or DoS so when it comes to other RPG aspects like solving things through dialogues or coming up with the kind of ideas that would work on PnP like using environmental assets they just fall short.I guess that it all comes down to a game offering acceptable tradeoffs.