| To be honest I have yet to hear a good reason why people want to stay with 2D.
The two main arguments seem to be:
1. NWN, TOEE were bad and they were in 3D thus 3D must be bad.
2. If it ain't broke don't fix it argument.
Now my opinions on those are:
1. As Fable and a few other pointed out, it's not the 3D graphics that made the game bad, it's the fact that no effort was put into making any kind of deep story telling. Well incase of NWN some attempt was made but it didn't get very far. But you can't blame the graphics for that, blame the development team.
2. If we were to follow that guideline we would never have had BG1 & 2, we would still be playing text based games. Not that those were bad, but you have to admitt BG1 & 2 were pretty damn good as well.
Stop this silly arguments please. How about starting a petition asking Atari to put some effort into having a good story line with plenty of great dialogue, unique missions, and tactical combat system.
The great thing about progress is that if done right you can build on previous failures and come out with something great. Who ever Atari chooses to make this game for them should take a look at why games like NWN & TOEE failed and try to avoid making the same mistakes. But at the same time they have to take a look at what was good about those games(like TOEE combat system) and try to incorporate that into BG3.  |