Whaou ! You hit hard in your video. Yet your points are accurate.
During the cutscenes, emotions and intensity are not there and most of the time our "mime low artist" main character seems pretty ridiculous.
And indeed, building the "team spirit" with the companions is boring, frustrating, irritating, exhausting ... It's a "if you're not with me, then you're against me" syndrome, black or white. It comes to a point I would prefer to play solo with the "lone wolf" ability. Btw it's possible in some RPG.
For the story, I remember in BG2 Throne of Bhaal, at a point of the game, you were able, if desired, to resurrect Saverok (the big bad guy of BG1). You could add him in your team (or kill him again for fun if you were evil) and through several discussions in the game, made him realize his past mistakes and make him evolve from a chaotic evil character to a chaotic good (if you had a good alignment character). That was great! And discussions really had an impact on my companions.
In BG3, I still don't see the point to discuss with them. Bla bla bla, disagree, bla bla bla disapprove... Ok, you know what, just go back to the camp and wait for the tadpole to eat your brain. In fact I just "need" them for their stats and abilities. And of course they are also good pack mules due to the tons of useless items in the game. Instead of disagree / agree / approve / disapprove I would prefer a discussion following a strong disagreement on an event that just occured, and through discussion we can come to an agreement or a neutral position or a reinforced hostility (even a fight, why not, with/without killing) that could be exploited later in the game. In the end, less black and white relations and more greys if you see what I mean.
Even if we are still in early access, I'm unsure these points (cinematics quality and companions relationship) can be improved as it seems to be a huge amount of rework.
But in the end, these details will make the difference between an average good game surfing on the BG legagy and a f*** epic game remembered as a new reference of the BG series!
Last edited by Killdren; 27/11/20 11:56 PM.
