RadonGOG: What the hell are you talking about?
adaliabooks: Compared to the first game it's awful. The story is really poor, the decisions never felt like they had any weight, the combat was still fun but because your characters all started quite levelled up it wasn't quite as interesting as the first one.
I'm hoping the third one rescues the series some what but I'm not holding out a lot of hope (I'll still play it mind)
I almost made exactly your first comment (about it maybe not being a terrible thing if Banner Saga had been the start and end of the series, at least for the time being) for EXACTLY the reasons listed above. Banner Saga was the game that finally enticed me into making a GoG account and I absolutely loved it.
BS2 was probably my biggest gaming letdown of last (or was it two?) year. Between the dive in quality and the fact that they sort of only released here reluctantly (there was some talk Stoic wasn't even going to bother bringing 2 to GoG) BS 3 has gone from the insta-purchase of the previous two, to a total "maybe" or even a hard pass if they really tick me off.
Which is a shame because I absolutely LOVED what they started to do and them as a company initially.