Originally Posted by Zress
It has nothing to do with gate keeping IMO. You need to be blind not to see that this game have much more in common with DOS then BG. It's not a criticism, just an observation. Game like Pillars of Eternity have much more in common with BG than BG3, and they don't even share the same rule system.

BG3 is like a combination of DOS and Dragon Age to me. Both great games which I love to death, none of them are Baldur's Gate or even close. From the music to the UI to the NPCs, nothing screams Baldur's Gate to me. I still think that so far the game is really cool and fun. And even if later on we will discover how BG3 is related to 1 and 2, it will still feel to me artificial and forced.

Saying all that I am very glad that there's going to be a good D&D 5e game around for me to play. BG or not.


Again, as someone who has played both DOS 1&2 & BG 1&2, this definitely feels more like BG where it counts the most (the characters & the colour palette), & feels like DOS where it counts the most (turn-based combat being the most obvious). Do I also need to keep reminding people that, as a game that was obviously created from the same engine as DOS, it will almost certainly have more of a DOS feeling during the earliest parts of the Early Access period? Hopefully some of the more obvious placeholders will get replaced over time, but that is not remotely sufficient complaint for me to go off on a toddler-level tantrum & try to get the game refunded. I'll leave that to the OP.

Again, as a fan of both game franchises, I am really quite unsure what people were actually expecting this game to be? Its set 100 years after the previous BG game, so it was never going to be a true sequel.