Voids
Augur
So I've played DoS and found the writing to be laughable. The gameplay also didn't really grab me. I decided to pass on dos 2 which is supposedly the game of the century for some. Should I be worried about Larian handling bg? Why?
So I've played DoS and found the writing to be laughable. The gameplay also didn't really grab me. I decided to pass on dos 2 which is supposedly the game of the century for some. Should I be worried about Larian handling bg? Why?
The ideal situation will be if they give us a RTwP D&D adaptation that is very close, if not identical, to how BG 1&2 played on Infinity Engine. Don't fuck with the art too much and give us something close to the originals (I'm not expecting it to be as beautiful, but no cartoon shit please), and finally, make the game a low level D&D adventure with a reestablished setting (i.e Forgotten Realms). If they do these things, there is a chance it won't be complete shit.
What are the chances they will execute all these elements in an acceptable way? Pretty low....
not enough development time? They have been deciding on what type of combat system to use and working on an alpha story trailer for almost 4 years now (remember they were working on the game for perhaps 2.5 years prior to the announcement they released 1 to 2 years ago now or whenever the fuck that initial public announcement occurred), and have like 650 people working on the game spread across 4 continents, an aircraft carrier group and a nuclear submarine...all that and it won't be out for another 3 years or something. If the game fails it won't be due to lack of resources or development time.BG1 and 2 were never very serious, with BG2 having multiple outright joke characters and shit like random people throwing scimitars at you. If the humor present in DOS2 is what we can expect from BG3 then it will be right around par for BG2. That said, DOS2 was... moderately good at hiding some of the humor. You had to choose Petpal or make joke choices to get joke responses most of the time. The game could be mostly serious if you played it that way. Mostly. There were still snarking skulls on spikes and the like.
My REAL concern is that Larian is not given enough development time, and the ending gets botched like DOS2's Chapter 3 and 4.
Imagine if in BG3 one of the first companion NPC you meet is a dumb guy with a strange pet and scream some joke about his pet multiple time in a fight.I'm worried that we're going to get a heavy dose of Larian's brand of "humor" in BG3 and that alone makes me nervous.
I actually don't have many worries about the technical side of things, because D:OS 2 is damned good-looking and quite stable, and I'm also not particularly worried about D&D implementation because they're not allowed to screw that up.
Will it be "serious" enough? Will it have that authentic FR feel to it? Only time will tell.
BG2 is a decidedly inferior game to BG1. I couldn't even finish BG2, and I've beat the first like four different times.