If you don't know what you're doing and have the right tools, you will break your shit.
And no, I won't tell you what they are, because if you can't figure it out it's a really bad idea (and also because I have no fucking clue, but no one need to know that part).
I'm sure it is. People have done it with graphics cards. You basically drop 2GB modules in place of 1GB (or 4 instead of 2 or whatever).
A lot of the storytelling is through 2D scenes giving the illusion of being animated by moving pieces around (which does the job perfectly fine), and a lot of the side quest stuff is just plopping one character without any impressive animation in one spot just dropped in the world.
In BG3, there are a bunch of minor side quests where there are several characters interacting with each other in the 3D world, and your decision making branches branch harder. Just the sheer number of otherwise "minor" interactions with fully animated, voiced, and narrated actions is crazy.
Frankly I think that's laughable. The Witcher 3 is fine production quality wise, but it's not even sort of competitive with BG3. The main quest line vs BG3 side quests, maybe, but there's a huge step down to the animation quality of anything else.
Only shot for shot.
Those studios with those budgets couldn't do meaningfully better with hundreds of hours of scenes to shoot.
It doesn't have the gross monetization games are trending to, but it's most definitely a AAA game.
You can't match the scope and production quality at a AA budget.
There are also abundant choices leaning on your specific class/background/traits woven through everything.
Only if you dramatically lower your standards for what backwards compatibility means. PS3 emulators might be progressing, but they're far from the native hardware in actual functionality, especially with games that actually used the features of the hardware that made the PS3 a powerhouse.
Emulators can wave that away as "it is what it is". Sony advertising backwards compatibility couldn't.
I'm skeptical of any article like this on its face. The whole beauty of a well done RPG, especially a CRPG, is that you get choices on how to build your character and how you handle encounters and can be successful with many of them.
If bard is the most fun for you, awesome. If it's "objectively better", the game is flawed.
There's a lot of layers of equipment and software that all have to support it, and some companies just aren't willing to replace it all. I'm sure it's exacerbated by how much harder some old code is to work with, because we didn't have the same body of documentation and design concepts that we have today (yes, companies still skimp now, but a lot has changed.
At this point those are all excuses, though. You should have migrated by now.
The first amendment only applies to the government. Any person telling you that it can under any circumstance be applied to the relationship between an employer and employee is a piece of shit lying to you. It's not in any way ambiguous.
The government regulating employment law is not connected to the first amendment in any way.
It does run on steam deck (though at lower settings with FSR to get 40 mostly stable).
Open world games with some complexity generally take a decent amount of power. You have to load a good number of surrounding objects at any given time, with a pretty wide view on the zoomed out view. There are also other characters/animals doing stuff, environmental effects, and a healthy dose of passive checks on the environment against various traits of your party to see if your character identifies any of the secrets all over the world.