Baldur's Gate III (2)

[Morty]

I think you're greatly understating how much of its failure came from things unrelated to how close its design was to D&D, such as "it was a buggy mess that needed to be fixed by fan-patches" and "the writing was godawful."

As much as I think faithfully translating 3E rules to a video game is a poor idea (and Kingmaker has done a lot to reassure me of that), it really was among the least of ToEE's problems, yes. I distinctly remember wandering around an extensive dungeon and not knowing what I was actually doing there. Or fun things like multiple Rays of Enfeeblement stacking.