What do i even say about this ages old game?

It's definitely interesting to see all the Bioware quirks traced back to their roots here, and there's a certain old-school charm to the whole thing, but yeah.. you can feel the age on this one.. and 2nd edition D&D is not helping things. Perhaps i've just been spoiled by modern games, but i found myself getting irritated at all the clunky character management and world interactions - rough edges that have been smoothed out in more recent genre releases

As a side note, i'm quite glad we seem to have moved away from real-time-with-pause, like, as a society. As much as i enjoyed Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny, i'm still so puzzled why that became the digital mode for this genre for so long - table-top RPGs are essentially turn-based already, so i don't know how it took us until Larian arrived to realise that it would be a better fit for the digital versions

I'm probably being unfair though, and i should rather judge the game on it's own merits. I will say, i did enjoy the narrative quite a bit. Also, low-level adventuring is not something you see that often in games (or not like this at least), so i appreciated the stakes starting literally at "kill the rats in the cellar", and only very slowly cranking up from there. Combined with that, the narrative freedom of "go out and forge whatever path", while still leaving a few threads to follow up on is a style that always works well with games

And yeah, as much as i say i didn't enjoy the endless inventory management, eating an edible and zoning out on it (and the story and setting) was quite a good time