At times we have a massive/unrealistic expectation we've cooked up in our heads. So it won't matter how good the game is or isn't it's not going to compare with our expectations. Especially not when it comes out in EA, expecting it to be true to everything that was BG 1 & 2 is unrealistic because it's not the same devs doing it. Even the devs that did it back when BG first came out would do it different because they learned things in that 20 year time span, tech changed, company changed, people got hired and fired, etc. This is an unreal expectation, to keep holding onto.
Expecting it to be 85% or more 5e rule is still unrealistic because it's in EA and it's not done by WoTC, Larian has their own way of doing things, thats unique to them.
Expecting there to be nothing in it like DoS is also unrealistic because Larian has again their own way of doing things, thats unique to them. Is all the barrels annoying, all the surface things annoying, jumping, shoving etc annoying or game breaking (depends on who you ask) imo yes.
Expecting those things like shove, jumping, barrels, etc to not be in the game is again unrealistic. It's Larian it's their mindset, they like those things. It's like me expecting my DM to be able to pronounce every name, and everything in the game perfectly, it's unrealistic because he honestly can't, he tries, he just can't. And everyone finds it humerous when a wolf becomes a woof.
Should we lower our standards and expectations to 0 no, but we need to find that middle ground on which to stand. Then work from there.
In my view alot of the shove, barrel, surface, yada, yada, yoooodaaaaa makes some sense in the game. Larian placed it there and many other things to test. In my experience though limited it is easier to adjust code, then completely rewrite code, or write new code. My expectations for the future a month or two down the road is this. To see Larian slowly removing things, adjusting things, tweaking things. To remove things that are just to far gone for a brief time, then after a while of in housing placing it back in for us to test.
Going into an EA by a completely new dev on a game we love and expecting it to be that game, be it 100% 5e rules, or another BG game is sheer stupidity on our part. Now we know how foolish we were, how our expectations were, it's time to find the middle ground. A base with which to work from and slowly raise our expectations, both in a realistic albiet slow way, to keep ourselves in check, and ease off some of the massive pressure on Larian, and our Blood pressures.
lets back off the idoicy that is D&D DoS, the 100% 5e, the BG 1&2 and put our expectations to a realistic level.
Warning: The following is not sugar coated at all, is my op, nor is it meant to be cute and fluffy. It is straight talk so put on your big boy pants if your going to read it.
If Larian wanted to make DoS 3 they would be making it period end of discussion, if you feel other wise again your a moron who's not using the one thing that seperates us from animals. A working thinking rational brain. DoS series has great sales, has a great following, that probably rivals BG 1 & 2 currently. Plus BG players are getting old, some have already died. Larian wanted to make another BG, WoTC agreed with what their pitch was and so BG3 began to form. On the other side if they wanted to make DoS 3 they wouldn't of pitched shit to WoTC, and made DoS without having to jump through WoTC hoops. I know this won't change minds of the DoS fools, cause you can't fix stupid, and thats what it is is stupid.
