Who would prefer to explore a Baldur's Gate (and I mean the actual city now) frozen in eternal midday, without the joy to experience the dusk coming it, the city getting darker, the street lamps turning on etc, etc... just to avoid a trivial, negligible incongruence with the consistency of the clock?
No one in their right mind, that's who.
Absolutely nobody who has ever played a D&D Title.
Role play is about experiencing the world your in. I feel bad for the fire that Larian takes sometimes, but they stepped into the arena. If their philosophy is to not implement a feature unless they can do it right, then they should not try to make a D&D title unless they can do it right, let alone Baulder's Gate.
DOS is a dungeon crawler with RPG elements. D&D is first and foremost an RPG game.
The combat is not balanced, but the rules are accepted and we all love getting that extra mile out of a class and finding wining combinations.
D&D fans love to experience a authentic feeling representation of the world they have come to love gaming in.
Faerun is one of, if not the most iconic game setting ever created.
Trying to re-envision it to take cost cutting shortcuts will get a a harsh reaction (homebrew in teaspoons only).
Larian and EA should have been asked by WOTC if they understood what they were getting into. D&D doesn't need to "Get with the times", it needs to catch up in technology only.
It has a specific mindset that either needs to be understood or quickly learned.
Larian has made beautiful world and and an OK game, thanks to mods to be honest. If they want to make great a game then they have to stop cutting corners on the essentials..."essentials" being all of the time proven elements that, if done right, make a world feel alive. They show time and again that they don't truly understand the finer details of the genre.
Lastly, Larian has a lot to offer and have shown me some absolutely amazing work! The city that I can't feather fall to in the Underdark is intriguing and that whole area is just mind blowing. I just hope they figure out how to bring all these beautiful locations to life.
