devoras: 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.

teceem: 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.

zazak09: 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.

devoras: 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.

StingingVelvet: RtwP can often feel like a total clusterf**k and trash mob combat can be super tedious in turn-based. It really depends on the game and how it's done.

StingingVelvet: Given how successful their recent Divinity games were though, there's about a 1 in a million chance turn-based wasn't the focus for this game.

teceem: So your first response just ignores that this is Larian, a game developer not known for doing what you're describing?

devoras: Too many disappointments, almost nobody gets it right. I don't consider any company infallible anymore; there was a time when I thought any new bioware game was going to be amazing, any company can fall at any time. Also old game ips, movies and tv shows are being destroyed faster than I would have thought possible, to the point where I fully expect any new media based on an old ip is going to be garbage. Every now and then I'm wrong and it's a pleasant surprise, but not often.

Still, this game looks like it has potential, worth keeping an eye on.

Elmofongo: Gameplay now:

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

DadJoke007: One of the few new games in recent years that actually made me wanna play after seeing screenshots. If they can keep the silly humor from Divinity: Original Sin out from the game, it has the potential to be really good.

Not bashing the humor in Divinity, it works there, I just don't think Baldur's Gate would be Baldur's Gate with it.

Elmofongo: What's wrong with the humor in Divinity?