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.
+1 from a cranky old xenial who played the damn games when they were fresh. This game is fine.
There's enough Get Of My Lawn flavoured nostalgia being thrown around this week to drown in ten times over. It's never going to be a BG2 clone because we *spoiler alert* Don't play games of floppy disks and use dial up anymore. We're playing PC games in the TWENTY FIRST CENTURY! Almost the end of the first quarter of the century. Why would any company worth their salt go back to counting individual pixels and out of date D&D rule systems?
And if people are using "talking to animals is for fairytales" as an argument.... take it up with Arwen, there was plenty of communing with bunnies and horses in LOTR and no one had issues with her doing it.
I swear, this is why the human race can't have nice things.
*** Edit: Yes yes, metaphorical bunnies, I know Arwen didn't actually commune with thumper or whatever...
