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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7685732" data-attributes="member: 37579">That's really getting nit-picky. The bar isn't 100% fidelity or nothing. Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale were certainly closer to adhering to the 2nd Edition ruleset that, well, many of the actual games of 2e I played with friends. And much, much closer than SCL.They listed three games as examples: Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and Neverwinter. Those three out of the dozens of D&D video games. (Almost 100 all told). They didn't go with Iron & Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft or Tower of Doom or Eye of the Beholder or even Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. They went with three games that were really, really close ports of the D&D ruleset. That gave a false impression. To say nothing of the "gameplay and sensibilities" or "stayed true to the D&D ruleset" lines. It's pretty far away. There's a lot of cosmetic application of the rules, things with a similar name, but how much the actual ruleset is applied is small. It takes more than just using familiar terms to make things into a D&D game. Like having classes actually mean something.They've totally been deceptive. They promised something they didn't deliver. Whether they did so intentionally or just through ignorance is another matter, but the fact remains people were led to believe they were anticipating and buying a game that was a modern take on Baldur's Gate. And, frankly, that likely hurt the game because they weren't marketing the game to people who might be interested and weren't focusing on that style of play. Had they been honest from the start they would have gotten less attention, but they wouldn't have upset as many people dragging down their rating.So, you like the game. Okay, that's fair. No one is saying you're not allowed to find the game fun. But you don't need to defend the developers. Their degree of honesty has no bearing on your enjoyment of the game.</blockquote>

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