So I'm going to play BG to Nashkell, and then write a review about how "incomplete" it feels. Maybe I should stop at the Friendly Arm Inn?
Please do. There are many, myself included, that would be more than happy to tear this apart at the seams and bury it permanently.
What does "feel like FR" mean? Let's be clear here, I played all of BG, all of IWD, all of NWN, and all of NWN 2. I played the Neverwinter MMO. I also played DDO, but initially it had no FR content, that didn't come until much later. So when I sit down for a session here, what is it that I'm supposed to believe makes it FR?
I suggest you start here :
https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Ca...mp;qid=1603203613&s=books&sr=1-2What we do have is an extraplanar creature using us as a means of reproduction. Hi tadpole. How similar is this to being the bhaalspawn? Ok, so the perceived end result is that we won't become a God. However, that doesn't remove the connotation that a creature from another plane of existence is using us to reproduce. The end result of Bhaal's plan was to be reborn, after all. I wonder how many table top sessions around the world have wound up with wilder story lines than even what we're going to get here? So what I see are a lot of subjective judgements based on one act of a game that's not even in true beta yet. This is about as close to alpha as you can get, and still release something. How much of what we're playing now is going to change once we get out of EA?
Become a God? How about not the spawn of a god, not involved in a 4d chess conspiracy by a God, not having people hunt you down to take your god powers for themselves, having your entire life and home destroyed by these said people. Why don't you talk about how the tadpoles are not working the way they are, the nautiloids are not working the way they are, the illithid are not working the way they are, the ullitharid are not working the way they are or the incredible suspension of disbelief you have to make for the excuse presented for this, or how the tadpoles are manifesting powers they shouldn't have, or how you should never have been able to survive this experience, or how the universe ignores the fact that you have a living tadpole in your brain that isn't killing you which would be the subject of instant desire for many major players including figures such as Vlaakith CLVII or the entirety of Thay?
Why don't we talk about Gale who is in love with Mystra or how any magician would be aware that in FR any mortal that Mystra considers worth trusting would be a Chosen of Mystra and that despite his obsession with her he is content to travel with an open Sharite(shadowheart) so shortly after the spellplague? I can go on if you want.
Some obvious things that have already been pointed out:
How much reading are people doing? There's a lot of lore presented in books, and I have a backpack that is absolutely full of them. Some are just love letters, or other types of correspondence, but there are a lot of books that aren't story flagged, but do contain lore about both the current situation in the Realm, and FR in general. I'm starting to get a ME Andromeda pre-release vibe here, where "it's not Shepard, so it's not ME" was the prevalent argument. The old BSN had "Warden Wednesday" for both Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition, and those games were "not Dragon Age, because Warden". I have to wonder if "it's not FR, because no Bhaalspawn"?
I'm not entirely sure what you are asking here or how it's relevant so I'd like to ask you to rephrase it more eloquently.
