Passerby, if you see this, please delete some of your PMs. There is something I'd like to discuss with you privately.
Back on topic, I think the cinematics actually were one of the most common criticisms of Solasta during the entire EA phase. Though by that point, it was likely far too late to scrap things and redo everything given the limited budget they had. It has all the signs of being the one thing that they overstepped on that may have forced them to scale everything else back, kind of like what fully voiced dialogue and ship combat may have done to Pillars of Eternity 2. (I am also of the opinion that BG3's origin system may result in this exact thing happening here as well.)
I think the big focus in people wanting Solasta to succeed is to encourage a better direction for the next game. And/or get WotC to hook them up with a bigger budget and bring them on board to adapting tabletop modules to cRPG format or something. A Waterdeep series of games would be nice. (After all, DOS1 and Kingmaker were not really masterpieces either and were also deeply flawed in their own ways, but DOS2 had an overall improved direction from 1 even if I highly disagree with the overall exploration factor being scaled back, and WotR is set to follow the pattern of being better than Kingmaker in just about every way.)
We also all know that once Larian is done with BG3, there is nothing tying them to continuing with DnD-style games either, when they have their own fanbase that is expecting them to return to their own Divinity series eventually, judging from the amount of complaints in the opposite direction of BG3 not being Divinity enough. And each time they do that, it means 3-4 years that they aren't working on something DnD related. I think a part of the clamor is that the DnD franchise has not had anything resembling actual stability in terms of quality among its video games for a very long time.
On a meta commentary level in regards to these forums though, at least we are largely being civil about things. At least we aren't RPGCodex who basically spent the entire past three days arguing about SJW/Anti-SJW garbage across their Solasta, BG3, AND Wrath of the Righteous threads, purely due to Solasta adding one option at the end of character creation. It shows that there are worse things we can do to pass the time waiting for the next patch.
