Originally Posted by Delicieuxz
Originally Posted by Adgaroth
"We were afraid that people would say that it was just Divinity: Original Sin 2 with a skin on top of it. We want no one to think that when they see it,"

https://www.usgamer.net/articles/baldurs-gate-3-preview

Wow. They were conscious of it, and yet that's precisely what happened and everybody is saying it looks like a D:OS2 clone because it really does. Larian's "BG3" even uses the D:OS2 mouse cursors, text font, and goofyish movement animation style, so it looks and feels all the more like playing D:OS2. It really doesn't give an impression that it's a different game.

What's funny, to me, is that I understand reusing these kinds of assets in an engine. They have thousands of hours into creating them, and who knows how much money they can save for other stuff by reusing them. So to me, this starts looking more and more like a "buzz word" than an actual argument. I understand that "buzz word" is the key to arguments these days, but I'm really not into that.