Never played solesta because it looks like a festering pile of trash. Graphics are important for the younger audiences such as myself who can no longer tolerate Vega64 graphics. I can tell you with 500% confidence I never would have bought BG3 if not the graphics.
Having good play is good and all. But 95% of players won’t see more then 50% of the game. D&D gameplay can be good even great but if it’s only good at the end- NO ONE WILL PLAY IT. BG3 is consistently good, it may be worse then solesta but being overall more approachable and easier on the eyes is more important for a successful game.
I know I am not the only one. Regardless of how much Larian may claim they do it out of love, they are trying to make MONEY. Hence their approach is better, and hence BG3 is a better game.
Ah, yes, the graphics over gameplay argument. I wondered how long it would take before your kind showed up.
But then again, I guess this also explains a lot of the ire I've observed from the general cRPG fanbase towards Larian fans in general, because of bad takes like this. It almost makes me ashamed to admit that I actually got into cRPGs through DOS2, only to realize over the years just how badly imbalanced the latter half of that game was.
