To the OP. I don't get your comments really. There is an identity to a product, in fact that is why some call this art as much as just functional industry. I sort of think of it like is.
1. The new game has some great things going for it.
2. The game mechanics are ok
3. The art assets are 100% DOS (this pulls you out of BG and back to DOS, how could it not)?
4. The combat animations are 90% DOS (this pulls you out of BG and back to DOS, how could it not)?
5. The lack of verbal spell casting pulls you out of BG
6. The lack of creative spell effects pulls you out of BG (there were more spell effects in a 25 year old game that was BG).
7. The UI is nearly 100% DOS
Does this mean the current game is BAD? NO
Does this mean the people who say this isn't BG are wrong? NO
Does this mean the people who say it IS BG is wrong? NO
Everyone has opinions but they are valid as your own.
I would have to ask. If Kia motors decided one day they were going to manufacture a Lamborghini, and they do, but the dashboard, components, shifters, syles, etc. all looked like a KIA and not a Lambrogini would they be wrong by saying its not really a Lamborghini? After all, it does have the name in it and its new.
I love Larian as a gaming developer, I loved DOS1 and DOS2 and can clearly see this as DOS3 with just the 7 items above. You may not see it that way and you are NOT wrong. But neither am I.
Cheers :P
