Originally Posted by kanisatha
Originally Posted by _Vic_
o.O Summoning in DoS2 sucked?

Honestly, I stopped playing summoners in Dos2 because the Incarnate and skeletal spider at lvl 10 summoning just tear through the enemy lines like they were made of cheese and you could even summon a totem per turn to make it more overboard. I do not know if you had the same problem but I would not say summoning suck. On the contrary, it was too good. It is the only skill school that you do not need anything else, you just go summoning skills all the way.

Originally Posted by kanisatha
Originally Posted by Wiborg Sturmfels
Just posted it in another thread but i guess the name "Baldur´s Gate 3" was an unfortunate decision because the only common ground to the predecessors is the setting in the Forgotten Realms in and around the city of Baldur´s Gate.

No, even this is not accurate. The game is not set in the Forgotten Realms at all. It is set in Rivellon with Forgotten Realms names and terminology just slapped on to it.

Unless you have hidden access to the script of the game that no one else in the forum saw, in the cinematic, I saw Ilithids, a spelljammer, a guy with the uniform of the flaming fist, intellect devourers, githzyankis riding dragons and plenty of other D&D races including vampires, an attempt to a ceremorphosis, several references in the dialogues about D&D themes and several banners of the houses of the sword coast in the ruins.

That does not really look like Rivellon at all.

Yes, key words there being "in the cinematic." Sure. Very nice movie to try and win people over. The in-game look and feel are what truly matter though. And that is totally Rivellon.

If I remember correctly in the dialogues with the NPCs there are several references. Shadowheart fully explains you the ceremorphosis a thing that only exist in D&D, The wizard makes reference to several spells, not to source and sorcerers. You actually fight intellect devourers. The MC is a half-vampire or something like that, and he has some dialogue choices and a strange dream in the camp, and there are no Vampires in any game of Divinity nor in the entire game series (There are weresheeps, tho XD ). There is a source skill called Source vampirism, but it is not the same.
As I said, nothing in that screams Rivellon.

If you say that the graphic design is similar, I agree, both use the same engine. But the little we watched in the gameplay does not use any Rivellon lore reference that I know of and plenty of references to a Sword coast setting.

Last edited by _Vic_; 29/02/20 05:30 PM.