On this forum, people are very critical about game, I have never seen more criticism than here.
I strongly believe (with no way to actually prove that) that people here on Larian forums will generally have MUCH more hours played on average than your average Steam/YouTube/Reddit/Twitch reviewer/streamer. Just consider all those "Joined: Oct-Dec 2020" people (like you or me), creating an account just to provide feedback on this one specific game.
And that's the thing, lots of the issues and problems (that are not obvious bugs/glitches) start bothering people AFTER their first playthrough. Especially the combat system starts showing in its naked half-baked abusable glory only once you figure out most of its ins and outs - I kinda enjoyed it for the bigger part of my 1st EA playthrough. But if the whole game were like that, I would probably start suffering in Act II and probably set game to easy/story mode in Act III to skip combat parts as quickly as possible... Same goes for camera, interface (+inventory management) and party controls. It's OK for the first ~20 hours of the game (especially considering EA), but it gets tedious quickly and once you realize the game might take 100 hours+ and that Larian has given us no indication (in a community post OR actual patch - save for the companions jumping that got fixed in patch 3) that they are going to improve these things...
And this is a criticism of the level "this game is not like BG2".
Now you're just trolling...
It's just ridiculous, this is what I actually saw on forum, not trolling.
The point is that I don't understand where is that "99% of the Internet".
Yes, some of these people spent about 20 hours on EA, left a good review and forgot about it before release. So what difference if it make them satisfied? I mean this dude write like on this forum we're too kind for this game, but it's not true. That what I mean.
I'm not saying that this "99% of the Internet is right", many things that are discussed here are correct. I'm just saying that many outside of this forum, just happy with game.
None of my friends or colleagues have ever played DnD. We've all heard of this game, but we've never played it. Please, your experience is not universal. This is also affected by the country in which you were born. So yea, rly.
