I get your point, I just don't think it's such a big deal that it's something I should care about and then listed the things I care about more.
BG3 is being made from the same engine of DOS2 and is being heavily modified for BG3. Until all the kinks are worked out it makes sense that a lot of the animations, assets and other things will be similar or the same as DOS2.
I'm just not judging those things until we get closer to final release. DOS2 looked VERY different going into EA than it does now, after it left it.
Agreed 100% on all of this, its far more about the gameplay/D&D system and story than anything else. Additionally as it relates to DOS2 similarities, Dave Walgrave, Larian's exec producer, said in an interview anyway that they started out working to expand and add things to the engine that existed in DOS2, and: "There’s about 20-30% of the Original Sin engine left and we rewrote so many systems and so many things." (this was from an article back on February on geek.com).
The other significant point besides your underscoring of before/after EA changes and further development is that, even with what exists as-of-today, people are placing so much judgement on what little they've shown us thus far....which by all accounts is just the smallest slice possible of what's there to experience even in just Act one. Which, sure, I get that we can only judge on what we're given, but there's also a great deal we simply haven't been exposed to yet.
As far as art style goes, I don't really follow kanisatha's line of thought there....what I've seen of the revealed gameplay thus far seems fine to me. And while I know he stressed his perspective isn't based off a BG1/2 comparative, I can say for myself that I've seen nothing that troubles me about BG3's artstyle as someone who has played thorugh all of the original BG games multiple times and loves them. I'd be curious to see examples of what artstyle he's thinking of or would expect to be used for it to supposedly be. Otherwise, if he's just saying "I'd want this to look 100% different from anything in DOS2 just for the sake of being different", that's just more than a bit nitpicky at that point to me.
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”---Dale Carnegie.
