this is just my opinion.. larian possibly have the same DOS team working on BG3 especially graphics artists and designers. they are too accustomed to working on DOS. they have been working for both DOS and DOS2 for many years already. maybe they should hire an entire new designers who have NOT worked on DOS2 assets before. if they have done that i'm sure we won't end up having a DOS2 clone.
Do you realize how much money would have to go into hiring a completely new team?
And them working on one thing does not mean they can't branch out. I spent a few years remodeling bathrooms, then I build a 2 story shed. I already knew how to frame & drywall & paint from my bathroom work, and so I had no trouble doing the shed.
My point being that their skill from DOS is WHY Wizards Of The Coast asked them to make BG3; it will take them, if anything, LESS time, and thus less MONEY, to apply those skills to a new game in the same engine.
And that does NOT mean BG3 will HAVE look or feel like DOS when it is done, except in the broad 'both are turn-based' sense.
