Originally Posted by WarBaby2
Originally Posted by Gothfather
[quote=WarBaby2]You remind me of people complaining a movie based on a book is faithful to the book and not previous movie adaptations that made wild changes to the source material. You'd be the kind of guy that would complain the up coming Dune film doesn't include weirding modules from David lynch's film and then rage how yet another franchise remake isn't being faithful. lol The irony and hypocrisy is strong with this one. lol


Hey, nothing wrong with weirding modules, they where a cool addition! wink Seriously, though. My statement was a rather broad one, true, but hypocritical? Sorry, that's your own interpretation running wild.. all I was trying to say, was: If you take up the "name" of something with history and meaning to others, and use it for your own creation, you should be careful what people might expect. Whether you go on and make narrative changes, or systemic changes, whatever you do, there will be people critiquing you for it... especially when the changes you make have a very clear origin in something you did before.

Also: Of course, movies are not games, obviously... but the, often forceful dismissal of "old school fan's" concerns that tends to happen these days it usually all the same, no matter the medium, and - honestly - it comes of as... pouty responsibility dodging, to me... if that makes sense?



You can't make this argument about forceful dismissal of "old school fan's" with regards to Baldur's gate 3 without being a hypocrite because the exact thing you are criticizing Larian for is what Bioware and Black Isle did in BG I & II. This argument has no leg to stand on.

Fact: Baldur's gate I & II are not faithful games to their source material
Fact: Baldur's gate III is a more faithful game to it's source material.
Fact: The source material for BG III is NOT BG I & II
Fact: "Old school fans" when BG I & II were released already existed and they were players of D&D, a game over 20 years old when BG I was released. The parallels are striking.

Doesn't this make BG I & II guilty of the very thing you are accusing Larian? Doesn't this mean that fans wanting BG III to be more like BG II just be "pouty" self-entitled jerks, holding a position of Rules for thee, but not for me?

How is your argument not hypocritical?