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hey, now that I think about it, they are basically Bioware fans.

Hey now wink I'm a fan of the romances and early Bioware.

But you are right I've found that a single critical comment on the subreddit will cost about 30 karma points. Trying to start anything like a critical megathread would get you downvoted into oblivion.

I think you can split the game into three parts -- does it capture the feel of BG in terms of quality of story 2) does it faithfully adapt the D&D ruleset to degree that bg2 did 3) does the engine have the same ease of use as the BG2 engine did

For me the game is succeeding on part 1 and that's the bit that reddit focuses on. The romances are fun and the story shows promise. I want to find out what happens next -- who is the absolute? what is Shar's role in all this?

But it's not succeeding on parts 2 and three and if Larian doesn't get that message the game will suffer for it.