Originally Posted by Wormerine
Originally Posted by mr_planescapist
Dunno about solasta, but anything else than what we have now will do. The spellbook UI, or the lack of, in BG3 is atrocious. No personality and style. COMPLETELY functional 2020 console aesthetics = Boring as hell. I just dont want to open my spellbook it looks so bad. lol.

BG2 is just timeless.

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Art style and “immersion wise” I agree (overall, I believe BGs aged very gracefully - there is definitely space for update and improvement, but for 20 years old games they present and play beautifully).

I wouldn’t overlook practical advantages of this BG3 skills screen - all party is displayed in one place, all of their active skills are visible in one screen (be it wizard/cleric spells, and actions). It is especially crucial with Larian’s high maintenance hot bar style (which I didn’t like in D:OS2). As nice as BG2 screens look like, scrolling through different screens of spell levels and switching between wizard and cleric spells ain’t great. What I see here from BG3 should allow for pretty easy party and level wide overview of our teams arsenal.

Still, the same could probably be achieved with a more evocative menu. I did greatly enjoy Pillars and Kingmakers homage to IE’s skeuomorphic UI.


Don't forget this screenshot of BG3 is a screen of level 3 or 4 characters that know nothing..
You'll have to scroll when you'll have more spells and more spells level because everything won't fit a single window.

The best should probably to have less screen but specific screen per characters...

One window/character with
- a better character sheet (1/4 left)
- equipment (1/4 middle left)
- skills/spellbook (1/4 middle right)
- why not, something to manage your hotbar and/or character's inventory (1/4 right)

It should be way better than what we actually have.
That way you have everything on one screen for every character because that's what we need to manage.... characters...

What's the point of seing everyone's spellbook or equipment on the same screen ?



Last edited by Maximuuus; 01/12/20 09:20 PM.
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