I adjusted my expectations for BG3 downward quite some time ago. Ironically, this allowed me to be at least a little bit excited by patch 9. I am happy that they finally added proper reactions, and the prospect of level 5 was enough to get me to reinstall. So far so good.

I'd still love to see a day night schedule, even if its something you select from a map similar to Dragon Age 2.

My expectation now is that I will enjoy playing the full release, but I doubt that this is a game that we will be discussing 20 years from now, the way we discuss its predecessor. Such is the way of things. If it was easy to make a classic people would do it much more often.