The graphic is nice but the Immersion Level is the same as 20 years ago.
I actually disagree, I think the immersion level of BG3 is much worse than that of BG1/2. That being said, my issues with immersiveness of BG3 have nothing to do with the combat system (turn-based vs RtwP etc.) and everything to do with the theme park-like map/level design of the game, missing day/night cycle, character writing ("you have reached a story checkpoint, pick a character to date / sleep with") and similar issues.
It falls short in aspects the previous games were good (if not great) at. Ignoring the graphics and some dated mechanics, games like BG1/2 or Fallout 1/2 managed (for the most part) to convey the experience of being a character in a living world that would continue existing without the player. Playing BG3 feels like being in some kind of LARP where eveything is focused on me as the player character, like Westworld with only one character (party of characters) for the android NPCs to focus at. Pretty sure those androids just turn off to save power when I'm not near...
There is still some (very little) hope that maybe the actual full game's world will be vastly larger / more spread out (in the sense that the druid grove that the goblins couldn't find won't actually be 30 seconds on foot from the goblin camp), but I'm not much of a believer.
I am okay with Larian keeping to their kind of RPGs and don't think they need to "stop" at all, but I would rather they didn't hijack a more famous franchise and make another Divinity game out of them. This could easily be a Forgotten Realms RPG, but it is not a Baldur's Gate game, regardless of name.
EDIT: OMG, UE5! UE5!!! UE5!!!11one The one UE5 game you can actually play rn is Fortnite and it looks like cartoony crap (although it does look better than before).
