RPG developer Josh Sawyer says Obsidian Entertainment is not against romance systems like the ones in Baldur’s Gate 3. He explained that these features take a huge amount of time, money, and work to create properly. “It’s not like an opposition to their existence,” Sawyer said. “It’s just that I don’t know if we’re going to be able to do it.” Sawyer said romance systems need a lot of extra writing, voice acting, cutscenes, and character reactions. Because of this, Obsidian would rather focus on other parts of a game instead of adding romances that feel incomplete or low quality. He also said players now expect romance content to be as detailed as Baldur’s Gate 3, which raised the standard for RPG games. Sawyer added that Obsidian still cares about emotional stories and character relationships.

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Witcher 3 director recently discussed RPG games and said two new titles stand out because they feel fresh and different and take him back to RPG golden era: Crimson Desert and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. He said “I think that this [idea] is growing these days, because when you look at Clair Obscur, or Crimson Desert right now, those games are different. They are not a copy of other AAA games, but delivering something quite fresh. And I’m really glad of it because I’m starting to feel like I did in the 1990s when I played games on my 286 PC, or even on the Atari where every game was a different game. Every game was some unknown.” He said that most games now only focus in make money and are not original, he wants more devs take risks like expedition 33 and games feel new again

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Taskbar Hero is a free-to-play idle RPG that just dropped on Steam, where little pixel-art heroes fight monsters automatically on your desktop taskbar The game blew up faster than expected, hitting more than 20,000 peak concurrent players on Steam. Once the player count exploded, some players began abusing Steam Marketplace features through cheating and real-money trading (RMT). The devs reacted quickly, issuing permanent bans and pushing hotfixes to stop the exploits, protect the in-game economy, and keep things fair for everyone.

Ironmouse has dropped her sponsorship of the open-world gacha RPG Neverness to Everness (NTE). On stream, she explained that her ad agency had been assured by the developers that the game contained no generative AI. She stated that they told her team, “We do not have AI in anything. There is no AI anywhere.” After seeing evidence of AI-generated assets, including atmospheric renders and promotional shorts, she got mad: “Why are you fucking lying bro?” and confirmed she will not play or promote the game.