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 human who came up with the analogy can speak for himself but I didn't take it that way at all. He's saying the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Surely you've seen movie sequels that had every element but not the right chemistry, right?
Now the point isn't to ruin anyone's fun -- I'm having a blast. But to let devs need to know what needs to be changed. The game is fun but not quite BG and not quite FR yet -- but it can get there.
Part of the 'not FR' feeling comes from the lack of an overriding heroic narrative. So far we are on a self interest quest and we do good things in the hopes that our deaths may be prevented. I'm that in chapter 2 we get the chance to be heroes for the sake of being heroes. "Make way evil . . .
