Originally Posted by Fester23
Originally Posted by Jharryl
Bought this expecting BG.


I agree. Calling this game Baldur's Gate" is like calling the next generation of "Ford Mustang" a "pizza". They may both be good, but they have little in common.

I like this game, don't get me wrong. It's a nice D&D turn-based RPG. Very modern. Very good on its own merits.

But for those for those waited for this game for ages, expecting the next installment of BG, they will be very disappointed. As I was. Larian should've used a different name. It's a "bait and switch".





This goes beyond just the combat, too. Absolutely nothing in the aesthetic, tone, story, design, or presentation of the game fits in with the series. When Fallout 3 radically changed the way the game played, it was fine, because it successfully captured the identity of the series when modernizing it. Here, they're literally just making a new DIVOS game using the Forgotten Realms IP.