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Krow_Incarnate posted...

I had to watch @ParanoidObsessive repeatedly and erroneously call thos game DOS3 when it's clearly not, either in world feel or mechanics.

It's absolutely a DOS2-style game reimagined with D&D mechanics.

The map design is similar. How they handle inventory is similar. Graphic design is similar outside of cutscenes/dialogue scenes. Their entire narrative design and character philosophy is exactly the same (right down to having the "origin characters" for players to choose as the main character). The overall tone of the games is very much the same vein.

It has far more in common with D:OS and D:OS2 in all of those (and some other) respects than it has with Baldur's Gate I and II. Even if you didn't know it was made by Larian, it's very obvious it's made by the same people who made D:OS2.

Yes, it has 5e D&D mechanics, and yes it's set in Faerun. Yes, it has strong ties to the "Dead Three" elements of the original games. But that doesn't really distance it from D:OS2 (or somehow make it the perfect successor to the original BG games).

None of which is saying it's a bad game. But you can definitely see where it's coming from.