scottie said:
Probably going to get a lot of hate for this, but I found it to be a mediocre game so far, certainly below Baldur's Gate.
The problems I found with it.
1) Quests were buggy, half the time they didn't mark themselves on my map.
2) Doesn't explain much very well, I stole a horse, got caught and my options were to bribe the guard, fight or surrender. I chose to bribe him, and then he was like "I'll just reclaim the stolen goods then", without giving me an option to not go with that. Worst bribe ever
3) Horses are buggy. I finally stole a horse, rode it to the next town, dismounted and then it dropped through the map and never returned.
4) Regenerating health makes it stupid. I thought that plague was satisfied with taking the difficulty out of FPS, now it's starting to ruin another genre?
5) The menu is the biggest PoS I have ever seen. You can't click something to select it, you have to scroll down to it using wasd and THEN click? Honestly, couldn't they spend 10 minutes changing the controls for the PC version? Additionally, why is there not autoloot of gold? And why, when there are 4 coins sitting on the ground, can I not pick all 4 up with 1 button.
6) I got mugged in broad daylight, in view of two guards, I ran to them and hid behind them but they did nothing. Worst guards ever?
From what I saw, the game has potential, the levelling system looks nice. But they released a beta, and I shall not play it. I will come back to the game in 6 months when they have finished it and patched in the improvements.
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Points 4 and 5; oh lord, I cannot tell you how much I agree. The interface is horrible, they've managed to make the menu systems more cumbersome with each installment, especially for the PC. The "quick" select is an atrocity that should never have gone past the drawing board for the PC version. The fact that the 360 controller is set as the default control option on PC says a lot about Bethesda's priorities though... This is, like most other games series, becoming a console experience for those who want more action than substance.
Baldur's Gate, eh? Both titles are in my top 5 of all time, glad to see that some people still know a real RPG when they see one. 
