The game is not that big, it's far more linear than advertised, the maps aren't really that big, and loot is lacking. The only reason people have 100+ hours is due to extensive conversations, dialogue, and the fact that it gives you no direction. Once you know what to do and where to go, the games shortness becomes apparent. The spell list is underwhelming, and so are the number of classes available. Not producing an expansion is going to hurt longevity, and eventually, people will stop playing because of it. The level cap sucks. Yes, I know, you dont need to be level 20, but who cares if you're brokenly op? It's supposed to be fun, and believe it or not, there are people (like myself) who DO enjoy grinding levels, and there are more of us than people realize. The level cap is a huge miss. The story is not that great (I'd even go so far to say it was very clearly rushed), and the only thing holding it up are the party member quests, which are far too easy to fuck up thanks to the lack of direction. Exploration is strongly discouraged due to the abysmal loot, and it feels unrewarding. There aren't enough legendaries, and you often stick with the same weapons throughout the campaign and are rarely encouraged to try something new. Also, horny companion system makes no sense. Please, please tell me why I was a complete, total shithead to gale and halsin yet they still both "confessed their love" to me? Like, I literally went out of my way to earn their disapproval, and I chose the shittiest dialogue options with them every opportunity I could, and they still said they wanted to sleep with me. Wtf?
I don't know how much I would actually pump up Old Bioware on that front, but yeah, the writing quality is actually something I noticed a few hundred hours in. The VAs and animators do such an amazing job that it can slip by for a while, but the writing, taken in isolation, is just kind of... acceptable.
I find all the party members insufferable. I change their classes almost immediately for better synergy or I switch them out for the soulless NPC's Withers has. Ironically, I've been D&D 5E Dungeon Master numerous times and I find the party members to be absolutely authentic characters real people would play. Good work Larian, ya made the characters so table top believable that I want to find a new group to play with.
I loved the character design because I hated the characters too: Lae'zel was a close minded warrior, Shadowheart a smartass, Gael Mr nice guy not so nice when you do something he doesn't approve, Astarion the vampire rapist... Etc.
But then I kept on playing and I realized they were really deep characters. Lae'zel was indoctrinated super hard, but she's smart and can recognize when things don't make sense, even if she totally believes those things. Shadowheart has been lying to everyone, including herself, and putting a mask on; but she's a really sweet woman.
Astarion was abused in every possible way for centuries, and being a total asshole is his way to cope.
My point is, yeah, the characters are flawed and can come across as dicks, but many real people do too until you understand their circumstances. Not saying that what they do is justified, just that they are interesting characters and redeemable from my PoV.
"I was told by a genetic engineer about a project they were on in England once and I never told the story on air because it's so fantastical. Oh God. They had in tanks, people with gills and they were little babies. They were in there just gulping, clawing at the sides. You see a turtle at the zoo and and it wants out out, and you feel for it. They got humanoids crossed with fish and stuff. I mean, we are screwed people. I mean, do you understand that? And I know I keep obsessing because it's in the news what they're doing now. They don't show it to you. They show yeah, gestating on farms or embryos and humans growing in animals. No, it's beyond that. They take them out. They keep them alive. The gulping humanoids in their tanks, scrabbling at the side with human horror in their eyes." Alex jones
That's where they keep the people from Innsmouth after raiding the town back in the 1920s.
But soon we will wake the Old Ones, and all of the wastrels and the greedy and the human garbage will be cleansed by ice and deep water. The Earth will sink and the Seas shall rise.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
Gale is the worst written character in bg3. Individual lines, character personality or voice acting has nothing wrong, but there is so much wrong in the story and backstory.
Gale is my least-favorite party member from a personality standpoint, so I asked my wife why she's always romancing him in every playthrough. She said, "I dunno, why would I be attracted to an autistic-coded nerd who talks like he ate a thesaurus?" and I don't know how to process that.
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