Looks like a generic CRPG.
Which isn't bad, but I guess it's just a different time. BG had it's own look.

On this subject, if anyone is interested and has the time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjWWuUDtSaE

It's the best analysis of the Baldur's Gate franchise I know of, and a fantastic look at the zeitgeist that made it possible, and why a game just like it can't happen in this day and age. Like I said, I'm not a fan of Baldur, but this video still gavem e a new appreciation of those games regardless of my own experience with them.

I don't know, Breja. I simply disagree.

Maybe because I only played the BG2, but I never got that "it's tabletop" experience feeling. I haven't played any tabletop and I still love BG2.

Looks good to me so far, and I love all those UI elements and the screenspace.

Any good? or they fcked it up?

nah, just some prejudice toward elves
now bring some dwarves to the game

Yes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJhawYZwvPI

Gameplay footage in 5 hours from now.

No one's going to put 350 developers on a project to look like a 20 year old game. Expecting that was always ridiculous. This looks like the Divinity: OS guys were told to make a BG game, and that's exactly what actually happened.

I wasn't expecting a carbon copy of the originals, but I hoped there would at least be some resemblance. Based on these screenshots, this is Original Sin 3 with a different coat of paint.

Well, here's the entire batch of screenshots. I'm surprised noone has bothered linking to that yet.

I have no real attachment to the Baldur's Gate games so any dramatic differences is not going to upset me one way or the other. From what I've read so far, Larien will mainly use the world setting rather than the actual gameplay mechanics of old, which is fine by me.

Seeing as Larien is very much using an iterarion of their DOS engine I'm hoping for turn-based combat (which would actually more closely adhere to a real tabletop setting as is). I never quite understood people's love(?) of real-time-with-pause combat. In theory it sounds workable, but in practice it always ends up being a total clusterfuck when the action does get going. I'll take the ability to make deliberate and precise strikes over the former any day of the week.

https://i.imgur.com/jqjj8Lq.jpg

That one does for me :)

The game strangely reminds me of Neverwinter Nights 2, especially the conversations part. I have good feelings about this one.

I understand that you have your preference. Me, I like both TB & RTwP - they're just different "flavors" to me.
But saying "more closely adhere to a real tabletop setting" just sounds like a poor excuse to say that your preference is somehow superior.
How about making BG3 multiplayer only? Doesn't that also adhere more closely to a real tabletop setting? So do you think that that's a good idea? (I don't, FYI)
Would (some) tabletop games be played RTwP if that was possible? We'll never know.

Hmm.. I'm actually cautiously optimistic now. Maybe I'm just getting old, but my first response to a company taking a good older game and slapping an extra number on it is to assume they're doing that just to take advantage of the name and aren't going to make a good game. But.. if they do a good job on the story, there's an awful lot of interesting things they can do, in the screenshots they mention illithids and githyanki so they might be taking the lore and world seriously.

I like how it looks, but I would want it to have d&d combat mechanics if it's going to call itself a baldur's gate game. It's probably asking too much, but I would much prefer the more in depth 3.5 edition rules instead of the blander 5th edition ones too. The divinity games were really good, so even though it's possible that this is actually divinity sin 3 in all but name instead of a baldur's gate game, I would still be interested in it.