I'm pretty sick of every single criticism of this game having a legion of obnoxious trolls pouncing on it with stuff like "TROLL!" or "can't tell if serious" etc
There are a lot of legitimate gripes about this game
The awful characters, whimsical writing, lack of BG-esque anything, are all serious concerns that longtime fans of the series have
A bunch of late teens / early 20s diehard DOS fans don't change that.
"LoNg TiMe FaNs Of ThE sErIeS" dude it's a 22 year old game that had a single sequel nearly 20 years ago. If you want YET ANOTHER Infinity Engine clone, there's a shit ton available, go play one of those. That's not what this developer is doing, and you probably wasted your money hoping for one. For every one of you people who want an updated Icewind Dale, there's probably another 10 who like the direction this game is going.
"dUDe iTs a 22 yEaR oLD GaME"
They chose to call it BG3 and try to take on that legacy, only for the team to put zero (0, zilch, nada) effort into making it feel like a baldurs gate game. You'd expect the team to have familiar themes, writing, atmosphere, even UI and music callbacks - newp.
Metroid Prime by Retro Studios did a great job of recapturing the essence of a Metroid game while making it completely new, and different
XCOM: EU (2012) by Firaxis did a great job of recapturing the essence of an XCOM game while making it new and different
Larian hasn't even bothered. I couldn't care less that it's not an IE game. I want a game that feels like a Baldurs Gate game - and this one doesn't.
