this game and games like the elder scrolls and dragon age series are simply in different boats
That's kind of my point. Those games are very immersive.
And what's so strange about cutscenes? The best rpgs have excellent cutscenes instead of a narrator telling me to imagine stuff all the time. It's something I would expect from any modern game.
In the graphics department, if you look at a game like Kingdom Come Deliverance that's coming out soon, you'll see what modern games are capable of. The level of detail is amazing there. Granted, that's a RT-RPG like Skyrim or Witcher, but it just shows you what's possible. I don't expect the same level of granular character models in DOS, but I do expect the models and animations in DOS2 to be far superior than DOS 1, which they are not. When I zoom in close to my characters, I don't see living creatures, I see clay figurines.
For a game that's full-priced I expect more.
