Love a lot of what I saw personally, and I think this game show great promise. Though I do agree with some of the disapproving sentiments here. The game does look a little bit *too* Divinity Original Sin-esque at this state, especially the HUD and colourful tone of the graphics. But this is something that can be fixed.
Also, though it might be a premature judgment to pass based on circa half-hour's display of gameplay, there wasn't much shown in the video that I felt was particularly evocative of the Forgotten Realms setting. It is after all a richly detailed universe, and the setting itself has a unique character that I think is important to get through. Fundamentally the point that pretty much every place you walk is steeped with history, tales of triumph, treachery, villainy and tragedy. And often the unsettled matters of the past have a way of affecting the lives of people of the present, especially when you factor in actions of adventurers.
I'm perfectly okay with the Bhaalspawn crisis not being the main storyline (since that matter was pretty resolutely settled in BG1 & 2 in my opinion), but I do hope that they give some light to the past stories and characters of the previous games, so that this game is at least apart of the continuum of the franchise and so there is actually some merit in using the Baldur's Gate title. The Spelljammer (which is sort of a separate setting) Mindflayers being the focal point of the game's storyline is fine, though I hope they will try to represent some of the familiar and classic places, characters and factions that we've seen in the previous games and the books, and their state of being in the new era.
Last edited by deserk; 28/02/20 12:38 AM.
