Agree, this game is basically reskinned DOS. I won't recommend this game to anyone in its current state. There are just so many things wrong
That's some hot take there.
He's right though. It is a mess. I am finding it more frustrating than fun right now.
And I think part of the problem is the 5e ruleset. Not the ruleset itself per se, but the implementation and information. I have no experience with 5e and lots of experience with 3.5e, so I realise that things are going to be different, but Larian seems to expect us all to be completely familiar with the 5e ruleset. I have no idea what is going on and with no adequate tooltips, I will continue to have no idea. I can't tell if I am seeing bugs or things working as is designed. I am constantly trying to perform an action or cast a spell and finding it does something I didn't expect.
I went away and read up on the basics of 5e, and actually I really appreciate the differences - I think they are all great ideas. But that doesn't make BG3 any more comprehensible. It is quite weird because the game is actually quite easy, but I have to keep reloading in order to learn by trial and error.
I think they started EA too early. They should have polished Act 1 a little, put in tooltips and made things more or less work. A casual first play through reveals tons and tons of bugs that should have been squashed right away. And who in their right mind designs an inventory system without an auto-sort? Surely the algorithm is just a copy-paste from DOS2 (God knows they copy-pasted almost everything else).
