Haven't played it, haven't followed news, played the crap out of BG1 / BG2.
When you say Act 2 is not terribly well executed, do you mean plot? Side quests? Amount of content? That is, the mechanics of the game should be pretty consistent between acts right? So what tailed off so dramatically after Act 1?
It’s been a minute since I did the play through, but act 2 was essentially a blighted zone that was written like a modern wow expansion, everything was bland aside from the combat shift, they wasn’t any real character progression, the only bonus was fighting eldritch horrors. The zone could have been immensely more appealing if it didn’t suffer from just god awful writing and a complete lack of feeling any achievement from progressing through the zone.
Haven't played it, haven't followed news, played the crap out of BG1 / BG2.
When you say Act 2 is not terribly well executed, do you mean plot? Side quests? Amount of content? That is, the mechanics of the game should be pretty consistent between acts right? So what tailed off so dramatically after Act 1?
It’s been a minute since I did the play through, but act 2 was essentially a blighted zone that was written like a modern wow expansion, everything was bland aside from the combat shift, they wasn’t any real character progression, the only bonus was fighting eldritch horrors. The zone could have been immensely more appealing if it didn’t suffer from just god awful writing and a complete lack of feeling any achievement from progressing through the zone.