Don’t make this a BG/starfield thing. BG3 blows anything in its class out of the water, especially Diablo. Nothing about it feels dated, it’s leaps and bounds ahead. It didn’t have competitors copping please, before release, for nothing.
I also got love for starfield and feel it was scored too low, and unfairly in some cases. As with most Bethesda games, mods will help it a lot, especially a year for now. It is what it is. Bethesda should definitely perfect their formula with their next flagship release.
I'm not, it's confusing when I see responses like this though.
BG3 isn't something new or fresh. Infact it embraces the very thing you knocking starfield for. The combat and the freedom of how you build your character is stripped back from other games before it (D2)
And to get it out the way, Diablo and BG3 aren't even the same genre nor or they really similar, it's really no reason to compare the two. I bring that up because the game that BG3 is similar to as of recent is Divinity 2.
Starfield is basically all of the best of Bethesda plus new mechanics and features without the dozen and dozen of bugs.
As of now almost every mechanic that Bethesda uses is improved upon.
The main reason I brought up BG3 is to show the hypocrisy, because it's as old school as you can get, tride and true DnD, the graphics aren't mind blowing and the game is known for having a terribly buggy act 3.
And those same people that love it are hating and nitpicking starfield having not even played it for any amount of time.