It is not just the UI, party management and combat that is better.

The atmosphere, day/night cycle, the combat animations, the colour palette all adds to immersion. Larian should seriously learn from them.

Originally Posted by WumpusRat
Originally Posted by kanisatha

Well we're seeing this in movies and TV shows too, right? It's becoming extremely difficult to come up with a storyline that is original while not being ridiculous and/or cheesy. So I think we have to expect and accept that not all RPGs are going to have some amazing story nobody else had ever done previously. But the standard instead should be has it been done right.


Even BG3's story isn't all that original, honestly. "Player is afflicted by X, which is going to kill them unless they get rid of it, while gaining powers from the affliction". It's a lot like the Curse of the Azure Bonds game, just with a different thing that applied the affliction. smile

Of course, we've only seen act-1 of BG3 yet, so I'm hoping there's a lot of cool stuff to come in acts 2 and 3.


Disagree. The ceromorphosis is superinteresting and quite original theme.