Thx you all for your participation,
I did my best to answer to all of you.

Kanisatha
As someone else said, DAO could be consider as one worthy to compete too.
But yeah, pathfinder is the closer to the BG feeling for me.

Argonaut,
I appreciate some interaction with my companion ni deadfire and kingmaker as some quests. I wouldn't be so harsh. ^^

Abits, yep it's really cool to have all this games and I try to appreciate all of them for their qualities. This is why my post is not about which one is the best but which one is the closest to the BG spirit.
I'm waiting a lot from Pahtfinder 2 just like you !

vel,
I'm sorry, I'm french and I can't imagine all the mistakes I did when I wrote.
But to be honest it's already hard and long to write so much I don't have the energy to read and correct myself again. So, excuse my bad grammar, syntax and.... typo laden. I did and I'll do my best and will try to improve.
I just want to share my opinion in the language the dev can "easily" read (despite my mistakes).

Leuenherz,
Yep, I agree. Pathfinder have this same feeling. The wild world, the companions interesting and diversified.
There is ever some way to improve but I think the game was really good which is fun cause it was too a pretty hard game from my point of view.
The biggest fail for me was the management of the realm, really attractive but so hard I had to put the difficult at the lowest after tragically failing.

biomag, I get it but I think you're way to harsh why the game. BG was and is ever pleasnt to play for me. It could be better but it wasn't bad to the point you are saying. For example, saying "the squishiness of the mages" seems a little strange. It was part of the gameplay ! I mean, wow... you would have tank magician ? Ok, why not, but it wont fit in BG1 or 2.
But ok, you didn't like replaying it. I like replaying it so I don't know what to answer to your all-out criticism.
I mean the dialog wasn't THAT bad. Edwin and minsc would have not became memorable if their was this bad. It's a nonsense.
To conclude, you say you don't care which one is "worthy successor", etc.
First, I don't ask for a BG-clone.
Second, I wouldn't care here if the game wasn't called BG3 and proclaimed as a successor.
If Larian said "guys ? We are going to do a game in the forgotten realm and it's gonna be turn-based." I would have said "ok cool ! I'm waiting for it !"
but they didn't say that, they said "we are going BG3 and it's gonna be legend.... wait for it... dary."
So the question "Is BG3 a worthy successor of BG1 and 2 (and ToB) ?" is a legitimate question and more a central question.
No one forced them to do BG3. Absolutely no one.
They decided it and they proclaimed it. They didn't say "it's a game in Faerun.", they didn't say "it's gonna be close to the city of baldur's gate", they said "it's gonna be BG3".
So yeah, "caring to know if it's a worhty successor is what matters here. cause if ti doesn't matter it means it's just about getting a licence, to get the hype and money.


rodeolifant, I was thinking about a fight in BG1 but yeah ID was cool even if it lacks of a strong story.

Orbax
i really did my best to read and understand everything you read but to be honest it's late and I'm french so... sry ! xD
But I think I get it and it was itneresting. Maybe you're right about not talking about the other games but I would try to make people realize BG3 was missing a point.

About the NPCs...
I wouldn't begin a big argue for many reasons : the efforts I have to put to write in english, the difficulty to compare a game to an EA, et caetera ( ;p ).
More I save my opinion for later even if I already point some things I don't appreciate in BG3.
But I would like to talk about it, later, for fun and to exchange our poitn of view. But, in french, it would be much more easy for me ! xD
(But I would say I ever think the romance in BG2 was pretty good, without talking about the NPC mods which came later)

About the ankheg you rushed in a hard zone for a beginner ! It's normal to have been raped by it. xD
Personnaly, the first time I enter the Nashkell's mine I have been killed by kobolds I was traumatized. I did all the other map, thinking Nashkell was the ultimate goal ! I even kill basilics ! Imagine my level when I go back to the mines... ^^

Horrorscope
I have no problem with 3D and cinematics ? è_ê
Maybe I miss the point here, my bad so. ^^" (tired french guy)

Dulany67,
Same here and this is why I hope Larian will think twice reading the forum...
I don't say it's all wrong, I say they're missing something.