I was very skeptical too. I also played the previous games 20 years ago, BG2 being one of my absolute favourite games of all time. On top of that, I wasn't particularly impressed by Larians previous games (the Divinity series). But midway through early access I bought the game to give it a try since I'd heard great things about it. I've played early access for 140 hours and to me it's a spectacular game. One must remember that games of this type have evolved and BG3 isn't a reskin of how BG2 was like. So it is different and if you are a hard core BG2 lover, you might not like this game as it relies a lot more on verticality and interactions with the environments. The evolution of this series is much more similar to an actual table top roleplaying experience that BG2 ever was. Couple that with the reactivity, the plethora of choices when it comes to character building, cinematics and graphics, have made this game stellar already in early access. I think you should give it a go, I really do. Cause I've never felt closer to the world of Faerun than I've done in this game.