Originally Posted by Etruscan
1. Nobody is asking for 2nd Edition, don't be facetious. Sure, it feels like D&D; a Larian rendition of D&D liberally smothered with their idiosyncratic, 'hilarious' style and Superhero companions. It bears little resemblance to a BG game, which is the point many people are making. It is a marked departure from the original games.

There's nothing facetious about it. DnD changed editions, and those changes have impacted the way DnD feels. Period. It's a fact.

Again, I point to the original post, talking about how elves were this unique race. Well, now there are tieflings and dragonborn and and and and and... The races have changed, the classes have changed, the spells have changed, there's more, always more.

Of course those things *feel* different.

Additionally, computer graphics have changed. It's dramatically different now. So of course that's also going to *feel* different.

But the more things change, the more they stay the same, as the saying goes. It's still a setting with basic character classes, there are still spells, and clerics and wizards.

As for plot, the plot of this story is that there's something special about you. Just like there was something special about you in BG. In this story, you have a tadpole in your head. The action of the plot pushes you forward to find a cure; in other words, it gives you a goal to pursue. And in your pursuit, you find mysteries that need to be solved.

So goes the adventure.

Originally Posted by Etruscan
2. That's your own perception of the feedback provided and is absolutely not the intention. There is little palpable sense of achievement when you level up constantly and are inundated in magical (and non magical) loot from the very beginning. In essence, it gets boring very quickly and starts to feel like a MMORPG.

We're in Early Access. Do you actually think the leveling is going to be the same on full release? Do you really think the pacing of leveling will be just like this?

I don't even understand why an argument like this is being made. On full release, the game isn't going to rush you to 4th level and leave you there forever.

Originally Posted by Etruscan
People aren't piling on hate, they're giving valid feedback...consider that perhaps it is because they care?

I'm sure some people are trying to be constructive. And I'm sure some people care.

But when I see a bunch of buzz words about the "lousy writing" and such, I begin to wonder. For instance, saying a game needs a day/night cycle has nothing to do with whether or not it's filled with terrible writing, but it gets lumped together in the oddest ways in some comments. It's to the point where *it feels to me as if* there are attacks that don't make any sense, as if they're thrown against the wall in a wild effort to see what sticks.