>>712911498
The Witcher 3 had a heavier narrative focus and the addition of the Witcher senses(taken from Batman) have shown up in a lot of games since then. I just played through Ys9 and it has Witcher senses and the BotW glider, it was honestly depressing because you can see Falcom trend chasing with it.

But yeah, Witcher 3 is being THE video game until Elden Ring came out is why everyone started copying what it did. The reality is that we're probably going to see some high profile CRPG releases in the next 5 years from companies chasing after BG3.

>>712911854
A lot of people didn't play Gothic 4 or Two Worlds 2 though and a game like Witcher 3 had insane production values which brought in a lot of normalfags and it was their first exposure. It's like how BG3 didn't really do much to set itself apart from other CRPGs other than having stupidly good production values but that was enough to make it be babby's first CRPG. BG3 was novel to a lot of players, to CRPGfags it was just DoS2.5 with worse combat.