abandoning games on GOG
Owlcat made everyone wait for a long time until releasing preorder bonuses as a DLC, but that frigate alone is worth the wait.
Otherwise 5 star, great soundtrack.
Larian tried to take on the legend and didn't delivered. From the moment we start the game we are not met with the invigorating music that welcomes us to embark on a journey, but rather blant and uninspiring sounds that more resambles moaning due to constipation. Combat is the next dissapointment. Instead of well-known real time system, we are thrown a completly boring and unnecessarily long turn based combat that deprives us of any tactical advantage. World presentation in another let down. Despite being quite large it feels rather cramped. Original approach with many smaller areas gives a feeling of a much bigger world and that high fantasy grandeur. World interactivity is also lacking. The "jump" is something we would rather have seen in an anime game. Solasta, a game with a fraction of a budget, gives an immensly more interactive world where we can climb walls, walk on ceiling, attack while climbing and perform a perfectly natural jumps. But the biggest dissapointment is the narrator telling us how you should feel about certain things... Is it a bad game? Not at all, but it's a bad Baldur's Gate game. Instead I would recommend newer games that do far better at capturing the essence of Baldur's Gate: Pillars of Eternity, Tyranny, Pathfinder, Solasta.
For a long time I wondered how to rate this game. The world is fully interactive, you can climb, jump, scale walls, attack while scaling, fly. Crafting mechanics are very good, but the story is somewhat lacking. But comparing to BG3 it gives that high fantasy feeling, openess, grandeur. In my opinion it's much better rpg experience than mentioned above overhyped game. And it's a solid framework for DLCs and mods. Maybe even some classics restoration mods? The only thing I am missing is real time combat, or at least simultaneus turn combat (from Pathfinder). But maybe there will be a mod for that?
