Originally Posted by Niara
Originally Posted by Tarorn
…anyone who says this game isn’t d&d hasn’t played d&d

I play a lot of D&D; I've played a lot of D&D video games too. BG3 does not feel like playing a D&D game to me, at the moment, especially not a 5e D&d game, which, considering they advertised themselves as wanting to be the definitive game representing 5e in video games... is a rather shockingly abject failure so far. A game company with far less money to throw at their game has already made a game that captures that feeling infinitely better. Larian should be beating them in the story-telling and characterisation front, since that other games falls down there... and yet, the forced-characterisation that they plaster over your character at every turn, taking the roleplay out of your hands and not giving you the freedom to define yourself, because they've *Already Decided* what sort of character "you" are, and make your character act that way on the regular... no, they've failed, as it stands, and failed badly, unless it changes.
I regret to inform you this "shockingly abject failure" will likely not get better for you in those few last months of development. You may as well switch your interest to another game now.