For me everything looked rather awful. Yes the environmental artwork was awfull, such as the rocks and trees and buildings. Games like Solasta, Realms Beyond, and P:WotR which are far from AAA and have a fraction of this game's budget look so much better. But ultimately none of these things matter that much because the main problem is the combat, which was horrendous and gawdawful. As much as I found D:OS combat to be awful, this game's combat may actually be even worse than D:OS. It was painful just to watch someone else play through combat, I can't imagine having even the tiniest bit of fun playing through this game's combat myself.
I understand that you dont like combat. I myself prefer rtwp as well but calling the visuals of BG 3 awful is a little bit too much. And saying that Solasta has better art and visuals is even worse. I dont have anything against Solasta, but it is far from BG 3's visuals and, by just looking at it,you can tell that, as you said, it has fraction of BG 3's budget. BG 3 looks absolutely incredible. Its probably one of the most pretty crpg ever. But graphics are not important. Main thing in this franchise is story and characters and also choises and consequences and in these regards BG 3 is really something special. At least it seems that way from gameplay demos. There are tons of little choises and even from these small demos you can tell that there are a lot of consequences ))) Cinematic dialoges and the number and diversity of dialoge choises are absolutely incredible. Characters seem interesting and the story looks very promising. The only thing I wish for is more potential companions, at least 10.
