Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Unless a user campaign maker is released, I won't play this game again for a long time.

Just like the title says.

I didn't even finish my second playthrough because I got bored of it. That is not a knock on this game. I only played through Skyrim twice before I got bored of it as well. Now I find myself playing user made dungeons in Solasta with the Unfinished Business Mod pack, because that has just about every available race, class, subclass, and feat from the books that I care about available, and a bunch of the Steam Workshop dungeons are pretty high caliber stuff. If Larian released a toolset for users to create custom campaigns for BG3, I'd 100% come back and try some of those out, and I bet they'd be amazing, because of the creativity I've seen in the player community. If that never happens, I won't be playing BG3 again for many many years.

Yeah, when this was first being brought out I thought it was going to have tools like nwn2 or their previous games where people could make there own content. Played a good amount of custom content that way for those games and the elder scroll games.

Pretty sure this stuff got shut down and its a uninstall after your done.

This is why I hope we can see adventure packs. I have played through twice, doing a third with friends. I have tried a few different approaches to see if I can spark interest but I am flagging. This is a failing of any great adventure game. To have a truly decent storyline you cannot do an open world and that creates limitations on replayability. The creation of adventure packs or allowing player created adventures would be amazing.

I have no idea how people can have like 11 playthroughs already lmao, I struggled very hard with my second playthrough.
It doesn't help that the combat is not engaging at all it's way too easy and there's often way too many enemies and allies that drag things out and makes it feel tedious.
It kinda feels like a slog to get to choices that ultimately don't really matter or change anything as to where the main plot goes and I could just look up what I feel like I missed/ wanted to see on Youtube.
The combat is rly one of the biggest issues imo especially on replay, it's not challenging and it's the same fights there's no real RNG to what, where and how you fight every pack of monsters.

I kinda do want to do an evil playthrough for Minthara and to see evil Shadowheart, but at the same time my enthusiasm is kinda killed when I realize how much I have to slog through just for those parts when I could easily look them up instead.
Pathfinder WoTR obviously has a lot of repetitive stuff too but there's A LOT more depth to the combat and your big choices are a lot more meaningful and impactful your mythic path alone can basically fundamentally change everything which adds a ton of replay value.
Like you can become a literal swarm just consuming everything and everyone for the swarm, or a Lich with an undead empire or a troll trickster who's breaking the fourth wall and turn the game into a comedy etc.
In BG3 it sorta feels like Mass Effect 3 both with where the plot goes and how the endings feel.

Edit: Also considering where the plot goes, it makes a lot of the '' find a cure '' side quests feel totally pointless and like a waste of time.
I really think the complete 180 of the plot being personal into being a generic alien invasion hurts a lot of the side activities in hindsight.

You know, it wasn't until I read your comments here that I realized that one of my major reasons for ennui with this game is that fact that you CANNOT get rid of the tadpoles, and the game forces someone to become a Mind Flayer in order to complete the final fight. That REALLY felt like a chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga-choo-choo along the railroad narrative to me, after I found out that no matter what choices you make, you can't get rid of the tadpole and somebody, somewhere, that you work with has to either already be a Mind Flayer or agree to turn into one if you want to "win" the game. Now that I reflect on it, that's exactly why I stopped playing my second playthrough where I did. I'm only a couple of completed quests away from having that choice forced on me again. Nope. No thanks. That's another reason that allowing users to create their own story campaigns with modular map/dungeon tools would take this game from "I'll probably never play again," to "I'll most likely play it exclusively as I find new user created campaigns."

This game has hardly any replay value as there is nothing unique to certain builds of decisions. You can make a good and a evil DUrge run and then you have seen everything.

Larian should either provide adventures as dlc (or something similar working) or an editor so that players can create their own adventures.

An editor would be awesome

They should first all the broken crap, bad endings, storylines to nowhere, etc., that this game was released with, and then consider adventure packs, but as this took 6 years to release...

play something else

It’s normal, BG3 is a big single player game, not an MMO. You play through it once and move on, BG3 isn’t meant to be played continuously. Then a year or two later you sometimes get the itch to replay it again.

I liked BG3 enough to start a 2nd playthrough immediately after I was done with the first - in my 20 years of playing video games it only happened once, with Dragon Age 1.

There are 2 games I replay every couple of years - BG2 and IWD2. It’s like re-watching your favourite movie. They’re just too good. Majority of other single player games, especially the newer ones, you just play once and that’s it.