The main complaint about Baldur's Gate 3 is that the game has absolutely nothing to do with the old games (at the moment).
I guess no reasonable old fan waited from Larian a game as close as the old BG than P:K and PoE are.
Those games are successors... Larian has to create a rebirth.
BG video games are not only a matter of the city, of the rules, of RTWP, of Bhaal, of isometric 2D,...
It's also a party of 6, more than 15 companions to recruit, all of them are memorable and have an incredible presence during the whole game.
It's also an epic journey in which you travel accross many locations, villages and dungeons on a worldmap, in which time matter and in which nights are dark... in wich you can die at every corner because of an unexpected encounter and in which death is more meaningfull than 200 gold coins.
It's also a control mechanic, an ambiant, a setting in which inn, trading and church are important and in which you have to manage (a bit too much) an inventory.
It's a story you could read in a book in which everything looks realistic according to the reality of the world (except the pause for convenience).
But maybe you read it... Because it became a book.
Baldur's Gate 3 could have... And probably should have taken a few of those things and improved them for a new game. I hope it's not too late.
A few things in the old games could have lead to something enjoyable for everyone in a modern game... Even with TB, even with verticality, even with surfaces, even with Larian's strange sense of humor and vision of "romance".
And many of those "trolls" wouldn't have the feeling that Larian is erasing all they loved for decades...
Because nearly no fans only loved BG1/2 because of Bhaal, of the city, of Minsc or of D&D.
These are just a small part of the games and the history shows us that even with this, you can have two games that have nothing to do with each other.
Anyway BG3 is on the road and it's anyone's choice to continue or not.
Last edited by Maximuuus; 12/01/21 12:42 AM.
