Still on the fence, so I've decided to check some gameplay footage to at least have a taste of the writing and the gameplay.
Turns out I am still as allergic to artificially-sweeted cardboard as I was when I had stoically suffered through Dragon Age: Inquisition for some reason. It's that flavor of tryhard, but with the over-verbose and clearly originally Russian (the punctuation and the sentence structure betray it all) text on top of it all. Guess there's no accounting for taste. So, a big nope there.
And the gameplay is just Kingmaker, but... worse? In a way that instead of getting more concise and to the point, it's mechanically even more redundant with even more subclasses that nobody cared to balance. What's the point of hundreds of features if many of them either don't work because of bugs or don't work because they don't function within the game's difficulty and encounter design? Another big nope.
Guess NWN2 remains the 3.5 fix for me still.
The fence you say? Suuure. Consider me suprised...not.
At least you didn´t have to actually play the game to feed your confirmation bias. That´s some bucks you saved.
We just have to wait for the new and refreshing "reasons" (again) about why you are not going to buy (again) a game that you were never meant to play nor buy in the first place. You surely spend a lot of time finding reasons to dislike more a game you already loathed in the first place, without even playing it. TBH I do not really care if you like or if you buy the game, I just find it puzzling.
