Originally Posted by The Red Queen
Originally Posted by fallenj
When EA first launched there were a lot of hard core Baldur's gate fans on the forums. If you are one of those then no, you will not like this game. Just like most of the hard core Baldur's gate fans that were here.

Truthfully you probably are the only one can answer this question since its about you.

It's true that there were a number of fans of the first two games active on the forums in early access who decided that BG3 wasn't for them, and therefore understandably moved on. But there are also plenty of fans of the old games, myself included, who did enjoy BG3 and so stuck around. Whether the OP would turn out to be one of the fans of the old games who doesn't like BG3, or one who does, as you say only they can tell, and possibly only if they play the game.

I do think there's an extent to which we should trust our instincts, though, and if the game isn't grabbing someone after they've watched streaming and they've not enjoyed playing games with similar mechanics before, there's unfortunately a decent possibility that they won't get along with BG3. Given a love of the old games, if I were them I'd probably still buy the game on sale and give it a go to see if it could win them over. But then I was blown away by the first look at the game and bought it on the first day of early access, so I'm clearly not in the same position smile

It has been a while, it's just what I remember the forums being, pretty toxic and a lot of hate towards the direction at that time. Well that and the dead silence from devs, if I remember correctly they did the first patch after Christmas or new years and EA launched roughly around Sept-oct...something like that.

That's fair and yeah, hitting a sale is always nice. Same, bought the game and been on the forums off and on for a while. Never played bg series though it was DOS and NwNs series for me : /

Personally I've never posted a, should I buy this game? question on any forums before. I've always stuck to my own opinion based on gameplay trailers and such if I wanted to pick the game up or not. I've had some hits and misses, but there mine to make. Threads like this are nice for convos but truthfully like i said on the second line. He's the only one that can answer that question, we already did a long time ago.