Couple hours in the game so far. I'm actually enjoying it. No techincal issues so far on my PC (5600x, 6800xt, 32gb ram)

Disappointed about the lack of da origins and da2 decision imports. In terms of writing it's ok, need to play more. Made one key decision about someone so I'll see how that actually impacts the story (if at all).

Nah, this is way too polished of a AAA game to imply  "lack of talent". For sure it's not A tier but Bioware has never been that on a technical artistry level. IMO it's more a case of direction and writing but I wouldn't put that on the entire team.

This is reality, before Peter Jacksons trilogy every attempt at adaptation was generally deemed bad. And the Hobbit trilogy is also generally marked as mediocre at best. This makes it so much more strange, that so many seem to be willing to defend that train wreck Rings of Power.

As someone who read LotR in early 80s, and only then watched Bakshi's '78 adaptation, I found it to be very good tonal representation of the books, no matter the limited running time and budgetary constrains of it. I actually prefer it to Jackson's, since, from my POV, gets more things right than wrong than Jackson's.

Hobbit being mediocre is an understatement, maybe the first movie and maybe the second because the third one... oh boy There is no story to be told in third movie, just mindless action. Peter Jackson really had no idea of what to do to make a  8-hours trilogy from a book of slightly over 300 pages, can we blame him though? 

I belive if it was not from the same world and director as LOTR it would have the rating of a Transformer movie

For RoP, the first season problem for me was the editing and the screenplay, the story itself was OK (even if boring and with no sense of agency, with Gandalf and Dwarves plot threads advancing... well nothing) but the dialogues were very off because they tried to recapture the high-fantasy language and maneirisms from the books, but it simply didn't work in a 2022 TV show. Rewatching the Peter Jackson trilogy we can see they walked on tinny ice between respecting the high fantasy setting and having a screenplay that directly communicate to modern audiences, and worked surprisingly well, though to some degree it can be a bit cheesy sometimes, it's never jarring or immersion breaking and sometimes that are pretty beautiful and memorable quotes like "May It Be a Light to You in Dark Places, When All Other Lights Go Out" scattered in the movies

Season 2 solved the lack of urgency and actually made the plot advance, but at a very high cost: The story became nonsense at times. I will not expect lore accurate depiction of events that spam over six hundred years worth of war and machinations in a show that will shoehorn all this in maybe 3 or 4 years, but I was expecting them to make changes that at least makes sense in the context of the show. Season 2 sounds like a show that was totally rewritten. I think initially like Rings of Power that was going to be only VERY loosely based in Simarillion (like same characters and same setting but with an original story), but then they decided it was better to actually do the events as Tolkien described, but with all the constants of having to make the forge of all the Rings to happen in just a few months and the result is Season 2...

Sorry I know this has nothing to do with the Dragon Age but it was really something I wanted to take out of my chest lol 

Watching Asmongold play the game, and I'm sitting here thinking "this looks good, I kinda want to play it".

They should just given him a code :P
That was much better marketing than those early review stuff.

Fair point. And I have to say I admire that you stay strongly minority positions (also in the case of Baldur's Gate 3). You don't just have an anti-mainstream position, you also can argue your position. And to be fair: I don't know anything about earlier adaptations, I just got the general impression they are disliked by the majority.

What did you think about Rings of Power?

Yeah, EA cherrypicking with the review codes is for me the biggest problem so far. I am not too excited about some of the things I've seen and heard from reviews, but as I said, I wanna see what reviewers think that only now get their hands on it.

70,000 steam players, lol. IGN thinks it is good.

BG3 875,000.

Cult of the Lamb had like 61,000. 

Bye, bye Bioware, shame really, although the talent left a long time ago.

Yeah, skipped to asmongolds thoughts on the game, he said it's better to play than it looks. He'd give it a 6 or 7 after 5 hours
Bit more than I thought I'd rate it but if it plays better than it looks, eh, It'd still have to be a substantially discounted cause I play games to finish them and from what I've seen this doesn't get better until the last one third of the game or perhaps it'll go on PS catalogue and I'll play try it then.