>>3817291
Every time there i seriouspost about Arcanum it's all "oooo you're autistic" so it's mostly
>>3816751 .
If you want an actual answer, of all the things people want Larian to do, I feel like they'd have a field day with Arcanum.
When you look at the game for more than 5 seconds and stop playing it like Diablo, it actually has a lot of moving parts to it. Shots can be aimed at different body parts, enemy weapons can be broken or taken away from them, almost every door and chest can be broken in with a weapon or a spell, you can play dice to get things from shopkeepers for free etc. Both mages and technologists have access to some wack shit where mages could have a proper duel with silencing, spell reflection, teleportation, stealth and all, while technologists have insane area denial at level 1 where a bunch of Molotov cocktails can clear out an entire are while being 10 levels behind, you can shoot people from half the map away, there can be an army of mechanoids who can heal you at all times. Fatigue being a single resource for both mages and fighters could lead to a situation where you could just kick someone to death if you tank the initial barrage. What Arcanum lacked is combat diversity and interesting combat design. The best parts were, like, that fight against a mage and a gunner in Tarant catacombs, some of the sections in the Black Mountain Clan mines, and maybe bandits in Black Root. The others are just going through a corridor beating up melee monsters.
Larian knows how to make some interesting sections, so they could bring some diversity and variety to all of that to make it shine with minimal changes. Even barrelmancy would be somewhat justified there.
I don't know why people are saying that Arcanum 2 would HAVE to have no racism and everyone must bbe nice because in BG3 every first person is an asshole towards you and giths fling every racial slur in the book at you without care in the world, just like Arcanum but without the nice options.
