It's funny, the more things change, more they stay the same. How many of the topics on Baldur's Gate 3 here, come up in criticisms of BG:II, like fidelity to the ruleset, voiced dialogue, the writing of companions, the "evil" choices, and adding romance.
I pointed out in the past how hilariously enough when the first game was confirmed to be RTWP at the time (or "basically an RT" as some people used to put it back then, since the concept of RTWP wasn't so well known) a lot of D&D fans were bitter as fuck about the fact.
And funnily enough the choice apparently wasn't even dictated by some specific "creative vision" but by a combination of two main factors:
1) the assumption made by many publishers that turn-based games were basically becoming unappealing for the market
2) the attempt to chase the popularity of the RTS genre, which was peaking at the time.
He goes a little to far into what is only his own personal preferences in some places, but's still a pretty fun vid.
Well, I don't see why he shouldn't. It's HIS retrospective after all, and I'd say he always made clear when he was talking about his personal opinions or about straight facts.
In fact in some cases he even voiced complaints about the game that he didn't necessarily share.
