They beat the crap out of PoE in two areas. UI and music.
Obsidian. step up your game, ffs. To have inXile of all people make a better UI than you is humiliating.
But to be fair, both W2 and PoE were looking good when they were only trailers. But i'm starting to have more hope in inXile, because they seem to have their priorities straight. They know what the backers want, and stay as close to the original's design as possible, trying to improve the areas that objectively sucked.( i.e. combat, redusing it on top of theoreticaly improving it, so even if they fuck it up, it will still be better than the original because there will be less)
Instead Obsidian gave the game to Sawyer, who is much more ambitious. Instead of making a BG2-PS:T hybrid which is the direction all the backers would have liked, he tries to do his own thing, something that half the backers will love and half will hate. Some of them hating already.
Normaly i have nothing against ambition, even with design goals i don't agree with. But to have design goals i don't agree with, in a game i bought as a spiritual successor to games i loved and hadn't those design goals, leaves me sceptical.
I would had liked a BG2-PST hybrid as the IE successor game, and then, as their second kickstarter they could go as wild as they wanted, selling it as it's own thing.
Plus, i find funny that Obsidian tried the most safe , risk free approach posible with the "generic high fantasy", "D&D but not quite" etc., and then as far as gameplay goes, they chose to experiment and gave as a controversial system that alienates many people way more than a strange setting would ever do.
