I am squarely of the mind that Larian is capable of making a good game, but the game I saw was Divinity, and not Baldur's Gate; frankly, you are experiencing cognitive dissonance if you cannot see the differences. That, coupled with the continued release of interviews where questions about original Baldur's Gate games are deflected with responses like "we love BG, but in DOS we do this", or professing to respect a series of games that your senior combat designer has neither played nor likes ...
I say no. All of these things are nails in Larian's coffin. They are a tool for Wizards now. They are pushing the streamlined PnP game and not a computer game, which is what Baldur's Gate was.
I say no. Larian is now on the list with Bethesda, Ubi, EA, and Blizzard of developers whose products I will never touch again for any reason.
I say no. Gaming is the kernal of every one of my life's intellectual, academic, and personal pursuits. I am done watching the potential of this new medium being exploited by corporations for greed.
No more. This is not BG3. This is DOS3 with 5e rules/setting. I hope Larian learns a very valuable (and I mean that in literal monetary sense) lesson about being disingenuous to hardcore gaming fans.
It's a game, on a computer, using mouse & keyboard. The only difference is that it's not real-time anymore. That's literally it. ..And updated graphics & audio.
You're going to put Larian in the same cam as companies that abuse their workers and activly lie to, and abuse, their playerbase?
Also 'hardcore gamers' ohhh. I lvoe when people allude that liking something they hate means you're not 'hardcore' or a 'real fan'.
People need to get over themselves. The game will be fine. It's not a lie, a cash-in, or whatever other BS people are parroting just because they're unhappy it's not a soulless copy of their childhood that would be fun for maybe 30 minutes.
