Really hard to say "better or worse" considering that we are 20 years later and that BG3 has taken a very different direction.
But in my opinion the best strenght of BG2 is the worst thing in BG3 : immersion in the world and the story.
There are a lot too much fancy things in BG3 for me to be correctly immersed.
The map is very small, the visual effects and the animations are often over the top, a lot of mechanics are inappropriate even for such a world (dipping, jumping, surfaces,...), the time is frozen and so is the life, the party members never talk together, instant teleportation is suggested at every corner, we are sleeping nowhere on the map,...
If there is a slider between immersion and gameplay, I'd say that Larian has gone a lot too far in the gameplay side for my taste without compromises that tends towards immersion / coherence.
I have no doubt : BG3 will be an awesome game and Larian has done an incredible job on many points. But I'm mostly sure I won't remember BG3 as I remember BG1 and BG2.
And it makes me really sad !
Last edited by Maximuuus; 02/03/23 08:31 AM.
