Originally Posted by Warlocke
We are all entitled to your opinions



Darned straight!

Kidding aside, the opening cinematic and dungeon are fine. Not more of a departure from 2 than 2 is from 1. It leaves a good first impression.

Unfortunately, after that, you wake up in a DIVOS game. The loading screens, character creation menu, UI design, and in-game menus are all cribbed straight out of DIVOS with nearly no changes, the Bhaal symbols and 'natural material' motifs that were everywhere in the old game menus are nowhere to be seen, and all of the characters we've met so far are edgy dorks that would be much more at home in Fort Joy (which the starting zone happens to extremely closely resemble...) than in even Jon Irenicus's dungeon. Baldur's Gate had a solid mix of serious and goofy, and I'm not really seeing any of the quirky random encounters or warm (or at least charismatically and enthusiastically evil) characters or strong personalities that defined the previous games here.

Last edited by Deemer; 08/10/20 09:51 PM.