Originally Posted by Stonechat
Originally Posted by JDCrenton
Originally Posted by Count Turnipsome
You can bet your steam account that we would not have all these same high ratings if it weren't for the cinematic dialogues, romances/sex/bears. It's overshadowing anything D&D or gameplay related...for now. Because without these people start being more critical on the actual gameplay system and world immersion.

The game could of been 100% DOS game system, it would of had the same ratings. Maybe even better.
That Larian understood that from the get go makes it an incredible bitter sweet success story (for D&D and Baldur's Gate fans).

What is extremely sad to me right now is we actually have MORE mods that makes the game like DOS2 (stuff like regain magic after combat, unlimited this and that, more spell slots, more feats, more attribute points, increased carry weight, more items ...) rather than like D&D.

Truest Words haven't been spoken before. And it is still Unfinished and Unpolished. The more you advance the more you notice the butchering ( Cut Content ), unbalance and bugs due to Release Rush.

Give it time.

When Outer Worlds came out, it was the greatest game ever made because people were mad at Bethesda for making Fallout 76. A few years later, people are way more critical and the game seemingly gets panned a lot.

Reviews of most games shouldn't be relied on for the first year or even two IMO.

Seems the critics never reached act III. This act is terrible and feels unfinished.