I could go on, but for me, No BG3 does not feel like BG1 + BG2. It feels better.
Overall, I'd agree with this. But that doesn't mean it's better in everything. Those aspects of BG3 that make the world feel smaller, for instance. Everything is close together *and* you can fast-travel from anywhere on top of it. You don't have to do it of course, but the fact that you can makes the world feel smaller. And OK, BG1 may had gone a little too far in the other direction, but in BG2's Underdark, for instance, you felt the isolation because the place was big, you didn't know the way out and there was no way to get around the situation except for seeing it through. I wish there was some custom difficulty option where we could switch off fast-travel from anywhere.
Meanwhile, DOS2 switches off fast-travel at one point....right before a rather difficult fight. Which is exactly where I would *not* want it to be switched off. I hope BG3 doesn't follow the same pattern.
