I'm still gonna buy and play this, but I gotta say, I've yet to see much to allay my doubts Larian can do this title justice.
I'm seeing good and bad. I'm still remembering the boot throw. But, yeah, the recent comments really demonstrate the problem with only having a handful of NPCs. BG2 had -- what -- 12? 14? meaning you if didn't like someone there was someone else to chose from.
Imagine what people would have thought of BG2 if you could only choose between Cernd, Anomen and Aerie?