Hello, first time poster here. I've been a fan of Baldur's Gate and IE games since the first game, which I bought back when I couldn't really even speak english, hah. I still played it to death and subsequently also the other IE games up until IWD2. I've spent thousands of hours on the series (I consider all of the IE games a single series, a collection of campaigns in 2E D&D) and I cherish those memories. I also bought both NWN and NWN2 on release only to be dissapointed. I wasn't expecting a new Baldur's Gate, in game mechanics or game design but still those games just went in a direction I didn't care for.
That said, I just watched the gameplay video from Rock, Paper, Shotgun and I was blown away. To me it looks a lot like the original games, naturally not 1:1 since the original was hand painted backrounds but I think they've nailed the general aesthetics, something the NWN games really didn't. It really looks like D&D and Forgotten Realms to me, not just some generic fantasy world.
Sorry, but it doesn't look at all like the original games. I dont know which game you saw. It's so far away from the bg2 atmosphere as possible
