Some of the people on here are extremely rude and extremely entitled.
People this, the people that, some people thiselse, most people thatelse. Quantifiers are important.
If you're saying "The people on this forum really need to communicate less aggressively", I'd say, well, no, not everyone, and I feel it's fine overall. If you're saying "Some of the people on here are extremely rude and extremely entitled", I'd say yes. Some people are so rude they get banned. This happens from time to time.
1. They never promised they will try to replicate 5e as closely as they can, not even in the slightest. If you actually look at the interviews, when asked about the level of faithfulness they always said that they are using the 5e ruleset as the basis but changing it to fit the new medium better (this doesn't mean only changing stuff that can't be done on a computer, but also to make it more mechanically engaging since you aren't just describing what you are doing)
Well, I made a whole
post investigating this question. My take-away was :
- When asked about the rules, their position was "If we can stick to the rules then we stick to the rules, but if we need to modify them to make them more fun, or if they don’t work in a video game setting, then we’ll adapt them". Everybody can judge whether the changes are tweaks, or more significant than that. Solasta proves that 5E-in-video-game "works" and that Larian's changes are not necessary
to make things work.
- In places, they would say "Well we’re basically trying to make the game that we’d like to play". But when you also say "While there will be a few tweaks here and there, gameplay will feel very true to 5th Edition", go figure why some people remember that it was supposed to be true to 5E. This isn't sending the clearest message.
- They mostly shied away from saying "
we like X,
we want BG3 to have more Y than 5E". They painted their changes as being a
necessity, either for things to work, or to make it "more fun". But they were
a choice, and they didn't elaborate too much on what
they, as creators, find fun.
To be clear, none of the above implies that the current gameplay is good or bad, that 5E is "better", that
I would prefer more faithfulness to 5E, or that Larian should follow 5E more. I'm just saying the communication wasn't exactly great.
It's hard to convey tone in the forums. Very few, if any are losing their minds over this game.
100% yes. Well, I don't have any poll data for the second claim, but I think that many of the most critical voices are not losing their mind. Just being critical.
