While I'm glad to see an rpg similar in vein to the BG series, I'm afraid there are too many new school ideas for me to ever purchase this game. I'll enumerate them below.
Never missing is just plain dumb. If I want to slay a dragon, I can just sit on my couch at home and swing my sword until he dies since I can never miss. I wouldn't mind glancing blows doing less damage, but there should be the possibility of a miss.
Cooldowns. I hate them. Give me a vancian system, or a spell point system, or something, hell, ANYTHING besides cooldowns. I hate them in mmos, and I don't want them in a single player rpg either.
Level scaling. I understand this is to be minimal in PE, but any scaling at all is horrid. If I level up, and simultaneously, every creature on the planet levels up, I may as well not level up at all. Some of my finest memories of crpgs, and indeed, rpgs as far back as the 70s are about getting my ass handed to me, and returning a level or two later for revenge. If everything is mathematically balanced to always provide X level of challenge, we may as well be fighting nothing but orcs, because everything IS an orc with a different skin.
No exp for kills. If there is no exp for kills, then there's no point in exploring. It doesn't have to be a lot of exp, but there must be some, otherwise, what's the point?
Unless these proposed features are changed, I won't be purchasing this game. It's unfortunate, because it otherwise sounds like an excellent game, but the above features would absolutely ruin the experience for me. So, I guess it's back to waiting for a decent crpg and replaying the BG series for the nine hundredth time. I suspect PE will do well, regardless, but a lot of sales will be lost due to the forcing of such unwanted mechanics on gamers. I don't think the lack of such features would keep anyone from playing, but the existence of them will. And all to serve some designers ego because HIS way of playing is superior to everyone elses. So, back to waiting for a real crpg. It's going on 13 years now. Maybe Wasteland 2 will give me my rpg fix.
