In addition - I will continue to offer my suggestions and critiques of the game:
1. Still don't dig the Michael Bay like opening sequence of the game. Not my thing, not my form of storytelling and I hope they add something a bit more calm as a prologue before the ship. 2. I think Larian still has work to do with the overall UI. It has improved, but I think they should make this more of a focus, especially in terms of items like books (I think a codex should just be in the game) and crafting materials. 3. While I am not disgruntled about the 'toilet chain' system I do wish they would build on it or improve it. It can be rather clunky at times. 4. The game struggles with verticality at times. It is cool you can explore up and down as much as the game permits you to - it makes certain combat scenarios interesting. But I don't think super shove and 'cheesing' the game in some ways is kind of lame. 5. I do think the story at the beginning of the game does too closely mirror Divinity: Original Sin 2. There are a ton of similar themes that strike me as a mirrored story rather than something entirely original. It feels like they liked that story so much (I did too, I loved DOS2 despite it being kind of dorky and over the top at times) that they wanted to use this IP to retell it to a larger audience.
The thing I get from this is that a big part of your excitement and satisfaction about BG3 is coming from your happiness and enjoyment of D:OS2, and liking that a lot of what made D:OS2 a great game for you is what's being carried over into BG3. But how does that work for someone who did not like the D:OS games? I am someone who's coming to BG3 as a person who is yet to play what I would consider an awesome cRPG from Larian. So for me, the more there is D:OS2 in BG3, the more that makes me dislike BG3.
I would say it is somewhat contrary to that. I did very much like D:OS2, but the things I find most unsettling about Baldur's Gate 3 is that plot/story wise they are too similar to D:OS2. As well as some of the general clunky stuff included in D:OS2 transferring over.
But I would say - Larian makes Larian games. Like Bethesda makes Bethesda games. Like CD Projekt Red makes CD Projekt Red type games. Like FromSoft makes FromSoft games.
I enjoy Larian games - so I suspect I will enjoy Baldur's Gate 3. I mostly like Bethesda games - so I suspect I will like Starfield. I adore CD Projekt Red games - so I imagine I am going to like CP2077: Phantom Liberty. I hate Souls games - so it didn't shock me I hated Elden Ring, won't like the next Death Stranding, won't like Armored Core and won't like whatever is next in the Souls genre.
Which is to say... I think that if you disliked D:OS2, you probably aren't going to like BG3. Game studios tend to have formulas that they follow.
