The cooks packed in a LOT off Birthday Cake ingredients into this. We've got flour, eggs, sugar, milk, butter, vanilla extract, baking soda, baking powder, icing, and so much more. I get a strong vibe that the developers were incredibly excited to be working on a Birthday Cake and wanted to include as much of as they could in their recipe.
If this isn't a Birthday Cake I don't know what is.
This post pretty well encapsulates why some people are just never going to be happy with Baldur's Gate 3, so thanks for posting it.
The Forgotten Realms are a setting explicitly designed to accommodate what amounts to fanfiction. Every time you pick up a book or play a DnD game you're getting an ever so slightly different mixture of elements from the world based on the writer/DMs preferences and what sort of story they want to tell with it.
So by saying "It still isn't Forgotten Realms because the elements of the world were used didn't adhere strictly to my personal interpretation" is nothing but gatekeeping. It isn't a valid argument.
In fact, arguing that someone else's interpretation of Forgotten Realms is wrong goes against the very spirit of the IP.
Really ? Interpretation ?
I didn't remember that everything was so close when I read books in the FR. Usually travelling means something and take time.
It's not only about the chosen elements, it's also about the size of the map and the integration of those elements... the time you need to travel from a place to another, the fact that goblins can't find the grove even if you litteraly walk for 3min between these 2 locations.
The structure of the map has many consequences on immersion and that's not the only strange things...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I never read anywhere that druids were living on the shore completely oustide of forests. Nor had I ever read than weak characters could survive in the underdark and fight against many great danger there.
Nor that goblins had so many spellcasters in their ranks, nor that everyone has 20L of blood in their body, nor that dipping your common sword in common fire create a magical fire sword.
Did you ?
Maybe you have a mixture when you play D&D tabletop, I don't know because I don't play TT but please... Don't tell me that it is the feeling you have while reading books or the lore of the FR. According to me, books and the lore of the FR are the FR. What you experience in your custom campaign and the interpretation of your DM is not the FR.
There are many references in the game and that's awesome, but that's still a custom campaign, not a journey and a travel across the FR. Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 were. BG3 is a cool game in a FR settings.
You may like it or not, I'm glad if you like it... But the inconsistency of the created world is a fact. The map is way too dense and even time/night/meteo doesn't exist in Larian's vision of the FR...
Just think about other games that use this kind of "open world" I.E The Witcher 3. Just keep every point of interrests in TW3's map but imagine a map 10 times smaller : that's what BG3's (and DoS's) maps are.
Anyway as I said I'm glad if many of you like it. That's also a fact...
But according to me this world is all but immersive. I'll enjoy the game even if it is designed to be a FR fastfood... But fastfood is definitely not what I prefer.
