Originally Posted by cgexile
I didn't play Solasta (yet) but I watched some streamers. My opinion is just another coin in the jar so what I observed is:

- the 3D overlay map of the zone as well as the world map looks phenomenal; even shows your party moving across the world map with quirky updates of that adventure

- pathing looks precise and smooth; although in what I saw here some say it just looks that way and maybe it's not the case... the streamers didn't complain about it

- spell visuals blow BG3 out of the water. Looking at that they did makes me wonder if Larian fell asleep on that creative front when it comes to spells

- cutscenes look really bad by todays standards, but although BG3 cutscene visuals look great, the animations are bizarre (chars looking who knows where in a convo, over the top gestures/emotions, etc.) A for Effort to Larian for trying to do what they are attempting to do but it's not there yet. The appreciation for superb 3D chars is broken by glitchy or goofy facial gestures and whatever else.

- overall UI is - as some have said - minimalistic and does not match the game at all so Larian has the upper hand there on the artistic front. I doubt Solasta wanted to do it this way and my guess it was probably a budget/scope issue/team size issue.

That's all I got so far until I play the game.




I agreed that Solasta spell animation is really good. Especially magic missiles. The story seems interesting, I finished the EA last night and I still enjoy their COMBAT immensity because it stuck to DnD 5E mechanic and rules (it's not slow or clunky imo). I do like BG3 for what it is (DOS) combat... This is not what I was looking for. DOS should stay in DOS and Baldur gate should stay in DnD 5e like Larian stated "faithful to DnD 5e. Anyways, I can go into all the detail that Solasta did so well combat, resting wise. Solasta is only a team of 17 people and with very small budget, their Kickstarter goal is 250K. While, Larian have millions and 350+ people. I'm amaze what this small indie have accomplished.

Last edited by Madoric; 22/10/20 05:29 PM.