Having played BG1 & BG2 with all expansion packs back when they came out, the original DUOLOGY (there was no trilogy before BG3) pales in comparison to BG3. Compared to BG3, the old games contained way too much filler content - way too many recycled enemy encounters a way too many generic and pointless quests. I am a huge fan of the old BG series, NWN1, Icewind Dale series, DAO etc, but after spending roughly 300 hours with BG3, it made it painfully obvious just how much of the old games is made of pointless filler. In BG3, every quest and every enemy encounter has a meaning. You are fighting *new* enemies all the time. You don't need to kill 300 goblins to level up - you level up by progressing the story. The is no grind - just awesome new content behind every corner.