Never played TT; never finished DOS2 - thought it was shite; replayed Solasta - thought it was great.
Way back when BG3 was first announced the question of whether the game would be DOS3 or a DnD game popped up. Well here we are today with a game which my granny would describe as "neither my arse nor watercress".
As has already been mentioned many people made cogent and detailed posts about this or that rule implementation and how they could be improved and were ignored for the most part.
Larian talk a good game with their zillion lines of dialogue; the 17,000 endings; the zillion hours of cutscenes and the rest of it. The reality is 3 hotfixes in a week with almost 500 bugfixes and more to come. But oh look, we can have an owlbear cub for a pet.
True. I think Larian attracted many players by their dialogues, genitals you can maintain, sex scenes (zoophilia) and cute pets. But many player will not finish the game. When i finished the game steam said only 0.1 % finished it (of course the numbers will increase). This is because the fights are sometimes unfair and unbalanced. It could be better if for example the concentration spells would perform better (like they do for the tabletop D&D). People praise very often that the fights in BG3 are very tactical in my opinion thats not true. To have a four fighter party is the way to go and because you can get many spells via items and potions you do not even need a wizard! Remember BG2 where you could not kill a protected enemy wizard without having a wizard with you. So i play fantasy games because of magic and magic sucks in BG3. Only damage spells are working fine (scorching ray, fire ball ...). In PF:WotR enchantment spell for example are extremly powerful and that is what i like. So the encounters in BG 3 are poor for me. Have more fun with Solasta, PF and the old BG games. But as i mentioned above Larian will change nothing because they are sanctified now.
