Its hard to even recognize the relation to 5e at this point,
I've seen this s few times and cannot understand how people draw this conclusion. The game is quite clearly using D&D5, with a few modifications it is true. The races, classes, leveling, spells, attributes, skills, feats/class abilities, monsters, combat system, action/turn system.... and so many more fundamental parts of the game are D&D5. Not only is easy to recognise the relation to 5e, it is hard to miss it!
Originally Posted by CrestOfArtorias
its probably even worse for some of the old school BG players cause they hoped the game would be 2nd Edition.
I'm an old-school BG player, and also and old-school PnP AD&D player. Larian stated from the outset that the game would be using D&D 5e. The continued to reiterate this throughout the development process. The BG3 Steam page states that it is 'based on the D&D 5e ruleset'. At this point, anyone expecting the game to use an outdated rule edition that hasn't seen light of day for 20 years is seriously lacking somewhere. Buying a game at EA without reading any of the accompanying information? You get what you deserve.
"I once bought a FIFA football game and was appalled to see that it didn't feature golf but instead some strange game of kicking a ball."
Eh yeah I agree its supposed to be 5e. I haven't stated otherwise. I was pointing out that there are two factions in the forums who have a similar argument, the difference being which edition they are focused on.
I won't gatekeep or downplay your experience, but not only do I think so, literally everyone in my 5e sessions, said essentially the same, some have already refunded the game and some hope it changes. We could argue what makes the game more like 5e or less like 5e, we might just have different understandings of what "being 5e" means.
