Wow very sobering when I read through the comments like this. So the accusation BG 3 is just a DOS 2 clone hardens. I never played the DOS series (never was a fan of it) and I don't even need to now, because if I ever played BG 3, I played DOS 2 anyway.
However, I do wonder, if BG 3 copies so much of DOS 2, why they take so long to finally finish....
Clone is definitely not a word I would use - there are too many diferences on design, technical, and tone level to make them seperate IP, but yeah, I think it is closer to D:OS2 then BG1&2, and that's where I think a lot of disappointment comes from.
Even if Larian bases a lot of BG3 on D:OS2 it is not a copy-paste job. Perhaps they saved some time on finding new voice and fun, but they are still building a game with more of everything, so the dev time is understandably longer. Also D:OS2 felt rather unfinished in its later staged, so lets keep fingers crossed that BG3 will avoid that fate.
Yes, that's right, I simply based the accusation of cloning on the critical voices from the Internet and their paraphrases based on their own gaming experience with DOS 2 & BG 3. So I also hope fervently that your, in the last sentence of you, described game experience does not come true and I cross my fingers of course for all of us.
Bhaal making an appearance and it being him all along?
Again, nope: I have maintained all along that the absolute is an elder brain. It makes the most sense.
This is the first time I've heard of it, probably because I don't read any of the megathreads here, but I really like this theory.
I for one cant help the feeling that if you will be snaping out details and replace things with pronouns ... sooner or later you find out that all games are more or less the same.
We begin having been captured, now we are traveling on a *cart*.
When we arive to the camp, its under attack!
We use that unexpected confusion to break free and get our bearings.
We play witness to several entities far more powerful than us flexing their powers as we try to escape.
During the escape we are thrown several times against game BBEG, that should have killed us, but we are allways saved by miraclous coincidence.
This is start of Skyrim.
Is that somehow hugely different?
Hah Rag that's kinda true.
Gothic & TESO came instantly to my mind.
