I hate these guys. Seriously hate them.
"If you're telling a dark fantasy, you don't want combat to feel like your playing a chess game."
Dark Fantasy = Blizzard Action-RPGs ???
To me, this sounds exactly like that.
"..kept what was good about Origins and shaved off the edges and made something really unique"
Oh, no ! I think they've misunderstood something entirely.
Something uniue (not awesome, but
unique !) can only be achievbed WITH all of the edges !
A good artistic thing must disturb people - either positively or negatively - in order to be remembered ! Imho.
Here in Cologne, we have the so-called "Originals". Which were people who were so weird and had particular habits everyone knew them, in the past. They are the incarnations o "wedges", yet everyone knows some. There are even a few monuments for them, because they are still so well known within the public, even after a hundred years or so.
Or let's take the original
Nasreddin, for example : He is ull of wedges - and he is able to disturb people in a positive way.
No, no, no, polishing things too much leads - in my opinion - into forgetting. It is the wedges that are remembered, in my opinion.