Hello, usually I am lurker on this forums. But I feel like I need to add my support here for Day/Night cycle aswell.
My hope and expectation is really low at this point but I do hope, they still re-considering overhauling whole camp system and include day/night cycle. Even if they need to delay game 2 more years for it!
I played and finished older Baldur's Gate multiple times in span of these 20 something years (only game i keep actually returning to) and I wonder why they dumb franchise in this way...
Why take things out and not just build on top of stuff from older games? Why even call it Baldur's Gate 3!? -_-"
People on this boards keep mentioning that having d/n is troublesome because of the multiplayer...but older Bgs have multiplayer aswell(???) with d/n cylce
I finished whole Bg1 multiplayer once with a friend and except fighting around pause/unpause button in combats, I never noticed that having day and night in there was in any way problematic?
(i played mp of Bg2 in 2001 something called tru gamespy? but never finished, then 5 years ago or so i finished BG1 EE mp with friend)...but am telling you, i never seen a problem. So what did i miss? or my memory is bad?? Why is this a problem in this modern times at all?
For me d/n cycle is important. It sets mood, it immerses me, it pokes my imagination how i wanna roleplay various scenarios put in a game. D/n in any game always makes me to have unique experiences and immersions when i wanna replay the game...
The best where i experienced this nowadays was in Pathfinder Kingmaker;..you exploring maps, you fight some enemies, night starts to fall down, music changes slowly, you decide for your party to rest, you put your fancy camp tent anywhere on that map and then you decide to leave the map on first rays of sun. Party members having their little convos during the camping...Sometimes would happen aswell that you get attacked while u trying to sleep (just like in older BG games, right?!). (there are so many spots in BG3 where i wished that i put my own camppp and spend the night! ANd not get tped into some random place! SO WHY I GET THIS IN PATHFINDER GAME AND I CANT GET IT IN BG3? AND OLDER BGs had it?!
d/n music in older Bgs was different too (on same location) and it was great! :") very ambient..am missing some good ambient music...
Anyway to say my final words: As a customer and long time fan of Baldurs Gate; Anyway sorry for sounding so harsh and entitled -_- but... I don't care what is your excuse for dumbing down the franchise. And yes i will call it dumbing it down, despite your fancy stuffs you put in there, because you taking good stuff out from older games (there was nothing ever wrong in D/N) instead building on top of it and having some lame excuses which I have hard time even believing! Dumbing down franchise is never good. Why even tackle this Baldur's gate beast? If you cant do everything?
Am afraid you are mishandling this franchise and missing the whole point which could cost you reputation in the end. I expect better from you Larian -_- stop goofing around and spending sources on silly stuffs (you are all over the place with this game, and you have ALREADY DONE homework for you,OVER 20 years ago, and if you only take a look at older games,and only what you need to is include it,improve on it,not cut it off(except if its some 5th edition stuff i guess)!and put abit of larian modern sprinkle on it) and make good modern roleplaying game, which we will all remember, like we remember and being fond of older BG games after so many years...and many of these memories of mine are connected being immersed with d/n cycles in these games, it left long lasting memory...
disclaimer: I have bought BG3 on steam which i keep testing after every patch and finished it only once, and then feeling depressed still afterwards from lack of day and night cycle, decent camping system, no custom journal,was there even calendar or hours??i don't even remember , no coloring the clothes,no party of 6 (this could be 5th edition problem idk)...meh...NO SLIDERS FOR FACES??? Booo...fr... -_- LARIAAAAAAN!!!! (ps. divinity games were ok and it was yours..but come on this is BALDURS GATEEEE!ARGHH)
