Characters - The vampire is a vampire spawn,and he seem like a slave to his master more than anything,I've never heard of a vampire spawn before (I think?) so I don't really know how that really works. And yes,It feels a bit weird that everybody is oh so special (and some are kind of ''lame'' Will made a pact with a demon (Lohse,Jareth?) The mage has a bomb in his chest (now I can't unsee Ironman) and I also don't like the fact that you know their stories,when you encounter them and they make them all mysterious what's the point? You already know...
But my guess is that they're all special because they're all playable,it's like having 8 potentialy playable Baahlspawns (What I don't really know is if every potential companion in the game will be playable and of course by playable I mean selectable at character screen)
Dialogs - Dialogs and gestures need work but I think at least the gestures are on a good path.
Humor - 100% agree
Gameplay/Animations - I'm afraid the high ground is going to backfire,they added advantage on high ground so you explore the new verticality but advantage is a very powerfull thing (rolling 2 d20 instead of one and taking the better result) my guess is that archers are going to be silly overpowerand if you add the fact that you can add elemental damage for free even at lvl 1? I don't know...feedback will tell. (Also just add fire to the arrow,not the bow,you're not an eldritch archer)
Battle animations are a direct copy/paste from DOS2 (and the sounds effects too) I expect those to go,the opposite would be waaay too cheap. Regarding the jump,dash,push and all those D&D things,they have gone over the top with those ones,D&D is fantasy,sure, but Faerûn has ''physics'' and gravity,there's no reason why a lvl 1 character should be able to make those jumps (it's because of the new verticality ofc) and the effects are also totally unnecesary (For the 3 of them) Also the push skill is way to strong,is on a bonus action and can push enemies kilometers away (making them prone on some cases on top of it,also gravity again) I would understand more if you could push them further depending on your STR for example. (I just remembered they said you were enhanced by the tadpole but...) For me voiced spellcasting is a must,for BG and for D&D both,spells have a vocal component for a reason,same goes for the ''silenced'' status.
General thoughts - Maybe they're planning on making crashes and beaches their standard start (a la star wars with the space and space ship) DOS1 start was also on a beach. I don't even care at this point to be honest,there's a lot of high priority things and you're gonna be there like 2 minutes.
''About the feeling: the content of the origin stories, the animations... it felt too much over the top, which is fitting for DOS but not BG, not forgotten realms nor D&D.'' A lot of things are too over the top,D&D is a fantasy setting but again,the world for a peasant is just like the real world,not everything has to be overly fantastic and flashy.
I also thought the same about the origins regarding my own character,I want my charcter to be MY CHARACTER not copy one of the other fellas (but I admit the option is neat specially for replayability purposes) but as you said,Is my character going to be shallow because he's not one of the Larian premade ones? I feel that's a very important point.
From what I've seen in all the interviews Swen has no intention on getting any closer to the BG series,if you see all his interviews for him the BG series are just D&D and he could't care less about the series itself. I'm ok with prioritizing D&D over BG but not to the point of getting rid of everything resembling the series just for what? Some weird pride? Narcisism? (as in everything mine is better I don't thing anything from old BG) but I fear he wants to override anything from BG1 and 2 in the 3rd installment of the saga. I also don't like one bit what he says in this interview at 3:45,wich is basically we're making BG3 to make more money and fans.
