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For me it's the emotional feel of it. With a VTT, it felt wrong (not that it itself is wrong, merely it didn't feel right). Not being in the same space, seeing the dice roll, flip through the books...it just doesn't feel at all "right" to me being over a VTT. I'd rather not play at all to be...

That sounds like where I sit. If I'm going to play TT D&D, it's in person and analog. If I can't play with everyone in the same room, around the same table, then I don't play and will do something else, or play a video game instead (a single-player game, I don't play multiplayer video...

To those who want a hybridization, I wish them luck in such an endeavor, but it's one I will never touch, support or buy into (I doubt I'm alone in such a sentiment, but I speak only for myself). With a video game, I want a video game. With a TTRPG, I want a TTRPG with no technology getting in...

Many did, though they were claiming to be pulling off what no one had (really) pulled off successfully at that time....a full single-player RPG + DM client + multiplayer element + toolset + scheduling with print publishing (Rage of Demons storyline). All that from a studio who, pretty much...

I'm sure they want to be more careful with the brand in the video game world, that's for sure. Sword Coast Legends left a pretty big stain on it (and killed a studio in the process). Hopefully Larian can knock Baldur's Gate 3 out of the park.

It's my hope they do, and I have little reason to doubt them at this point (my doubts lie not in the technical areas, but that they won't make this as goofy as D:OS). I'd need to see the game and how the mechanics work, but I really do want this game to succeed as a welcome addition to the...

To each their own. How you deal with confusion is just as valid as how I do, and your thoughts and opinions are just as relevant/irrelevant as the ones I hold. I offer my thoughts and personal definitions for what they're worth. They are not gospel. They are not the only way. They're just...

Frankly I've always categorized ARPG's as ones that rely almost completely on your personal reflexes ("twitch skills" I call them) to play when it comes to character control/combat and whatever stats exist typically increase damage/health/carry weights, etc...stats that do what they say they do...

Fine colours, all. Even the fourth, which finally answered the question of "What colour is giving the finger?" :p It's just a tiny bit of a disappointment that they'd go with that tagline, even this early on, given the volume of creative talent doubtless available to them. Perhaps it's...

"...will send players on a story-driven epic where choices they make will have real consequences on how their story unfolds." Yep, sounds like an RPG, just like every other RPG in the last 25 years that used that very tagline. :p

It's an excellent adaptation of Pathfinder RPG. A game I was chomping at the bit for but came too late. I lost interest in Pathfinder (and the 3.x rules system) about a year(ish) before 5e released. I like customization and options...but Pathfinder degenerated into number porn and "builds"...

Well as I said earlier, I'm not looking for a 1:1 translation. Examples of what I've found as good translations of the D&D rules to video games would be (knowing these are entirely subjective to my own tastes): Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 for 2e (and small bits of 3e in BG2), Icewind Dale for 2e...

All good. I had read that interview, and while I find most such things interesting, I'm also skeptical of just talk without anything to show (for most things, but especially so for a product I'm being asked to buy...not personally asked mind you, just as a consumer). Really, the "meat" of what...

SCL started as a generic RPG, using a ruleset inspired by Dragon Age Origins (Dan Tudge was Director/Producer on DAO and was heading SCL design at nSpace...and the rules implemented in SCL were clearly more Dragon Age than D&D). The D&D skin was slapped on it later on (dunno the specifics of...

Again I need show from them, not tell. Mearls said the same of Sword Coast Legends.

I don't doubt Larian's technical skills. I have complete confidence that they can design and build a solid adaptation of 5e rules with beautiful, interactive environments. I do hope they go for adapting 5e and not being "inspired" by 5e as with the disastrously awful Sword Coast Legends did...

I can't speak to why others may feel this way, but I can to why I do...because given their body of work, I see no compelling evidence that suggests they can achieve this. Technical design, yes. Narrative design, no. That's not to say they won't. BG3 could very well be the first, but I will...

While I expect it to not suck from a technical perspective, I'm not so sure when it comes to the writing and actual narrative. The Divinity games are very self-aware and self-effacing and really exude a feel of not taking themselves particularly seriously. All well and good of course, but not...

Methinks this is going to be more Sword Coast Legends than Baldur's Gate. You would expect at least SOME mention that existing studio employees were avid D&D tabletop gamers...or even D&D video gamers. Nothing. Yeah, this gives me a Sword Coast Legends vibe all over the place.

Certainly a possibility. That would indeed be quite boring.