Nice read.
Heh, I guess I find myself in the "suprised they don't like the new systems" camp.
What I hate about the physical/magical armor is mostly the 100% defenselessness once it's gone. RNG isn't the devil. RNG should not be avoided at all cost. Binary yes/no, now that's something that's rather boring to play. I'm fine with the system if once it breaks, it's not 100%, and there are other skills that may lower your chance to be affected or increase chances enemies are afflicted. This guaranteed CC is just boring IMO.
I can't really see what good there would be with skillabilities since there's literally nothing interesting anymore. I just pump out dual-wield and necromancy on all characters really.
IMO VO is generally a waste of time. Pillars of Eternity used too much too, and it was very bad having to read inbetween descriptions since there was no pause for you to read them so you had to listen, then read again for all the info. Not a pleasant thing, and lack of VO made things better as a result. I can see the same happening here.
I can't say I've grown font of the dialogue system no, it's still as jarring as it was 20 hours ago. Most people seem to believe it's placeholder text and if I tell them it's not, they tell me I'm lying. I don't think it's that well received myself, from my impressions of reading other people's posts.
