Originally Posted by Saito Hikari
...You weren't kidding. I legit had not run into ANYONE defending DOS2's itemization until today.
That makes two of us.

In the years I’ve discussed these games since they came out, with friends or on communities like RPG Codex, RPG Watch, etc. I struggle to remember people who were even just neutral about the system.

Most thought it was bad, many thought it was downright awful and for few people I know it was downright a deal breaker, enough to put them off from playing the game despise any recommendations that “It does even some things well”.
Sometimes without even enough insight to be able to point what didn’t work exactly. They knew only that dealing with loot in the game was tiring busywork and it didn’t feet right.

People who LIKED the system and would argue with a straight face that it is just as good as BG2?
Basically unicorns.

Party control in Baldur's Gate 3 is a complete mess that begs to be addressed. SAY NO TO THE TOILET CHAIN