How MEA reminds me of Kingdoms of Amalur so far

I enjoyed KoA, warts and all. The respawning enemies got repetitive and the side questing was a bit grindy, but I liked the main story and the faction quest lines.

I definitely see the similarities between the free-form skill selection in KoA and what we've seen so far of MEA. The profiles strike me as being quite similar to the destinies in KoA where you could unlock them based on how many points you had spent in the three classes, and then switch between them for different passive bonuses.

Not sure I see the resemblance in the UI tho. Despite the obvious youth of Peebee and the Ryder twins, I still get a gritty vibe from parts of the MEA gameplay we've seen. Everything about KoA was OTT colourful, cheesy, cartoonish and enlarged. Even monsters that were big enough to rip your head off had a cutesy vibe to them. (This is what you were talking about, right? Sorry if I misunderstood.)

Facial expressions... not sure yet. The ones from Dec 1 were a bit awkward but that was 2.5 months ago and the devs have assured us that they're working on them, so we'll see. I think the facial expressions were hampered a bit by the art style in KoA, not to mention the fact that the unvoiced PC had a permanent blank expression.

All in all I don't think MEA will remind me much of KoA tho because it's squad based and character driven. These aspects are the main reason I love Bioware games and they were pretty much absent from KoA.

I adored KoA. One of the first game to succesfully join open world action gamepplay with a good levelling system. If they take lessons from them, I could only whoop with joy.

Whoop whoop!

Why it's easy to understand for those two?
Regardless, I wasn't judging your opinion, just explaining your stance, since we talked about it before.

I think the problem has a number of points. Firstly, I think time is a factor. When I first played in-depth RPG's like Baldurs Gate I was young. I had all the time in the world to read and take in a lot of information. Now, those same people have jobs, wives, kids, etc. They dont have time to sit down and read 35 pages of books or whatever. Some people do and thats fine but the majority dont.

Secondly, time also has a factor on stats. I dont have time to sit down and work out which sword does more damage +3 against vampires or whatever. I just want to hit things until they are dead. That may seem petty and trivial, but I dont want to have to go to university and study string theory to work out whether my next hit is going to be a critical or not.

Thirdly, people have lost their imagination/ability to suspend disbelief. What I mean by this is unless something is animated in front of people properly, then they throw a hissy fit because theyve been yanked out of their immersion because the lip syncing is off slightly. Considering people mention games like Kotor etc, youd think they'd learn to have a firm grip on it by now.

My main memory about playing KoA:R is that it was my first time using fraps and I accidentally hit the video record button without realising and wasn't made aware of it until my computer absolutely freaked out because I had almost zero disk space left and the PC couldn't function anymore.

Fun times.