It's not just that... on top of the tadpole twist allowing him to disregard his vampirism... kinda lame. Theirs not even a day / night cycle in this game, LOL! The blew money trying to create a big budget movie. All I wanted was a solid modern D&D game.
1. All of the flashy cut scenes and animated dialog is just flash, waste of money. I see it once, after that it's an inconvenience /skip. I would have kept the camera top down and spent the money elsewhere, like solid voice acting and the best D&D writers I could afford. An array of simple model emotes could have told the player everything they need to know during dialog.
2. Interface and Menus don't even try to replicate a BG layout. I should feel back at home when I sit down to play this game.
3. Relationships are written horribly, characters throw themselves at you for no reason, it's just weird.
4. Give me Core Rules Mode / Iron Man mode and I can possibly look past everything else and enjoy this game, probably.
Mostly agreed on the criticisms, though I still haven't given up hope. Time will tell if it's reasonable or naive of me.
That said, may I recommend Solasta (currently also in EA)? Haven't played it yet myself, but from what I can see it looks like a great 5e game. Not very similar to BG, I think it's closer to IWD with faithful 5e mechanics. It's small-scope and not very "shiny", but seems to do a great job of keeping the "spirit" of D&D.
