I'm so incredibly disappointed. Nothing about this feels like Baldur's Gate to me. Pillars of Eternity is a better and more playable likeness in both tone, writing, and mechanics. This feels like them just making the game they always make and cosmetically slapping the name on.

The corny visual dice rolls are killing me. The turn based combat is slow and has no suspense. I get it...they wanted to make a D&D 5e game, but I didn't buy a computer game to literally roll dice and take turns like I would in paper and pen. I do that every Sunday night with my D&D group, but at least then I have my friends with me and a DM creatively narrating how it goes down rather than seeing the same cheesy animations over and over. It's frustratingly emersion-breaking. BGI and BGII managed to have the mechanics of D&D without making you manually take every single step of a D&D round. That's why it was awesome. You knew all that stuff was going on in the background, but you didn't have to see it. If they at least got rid of the forced turn-based combat I might be able to get through the game.

I just feel like someone ran over my dog, got a different dog, and then tried to pass it off to me like it is the original dog.