I think having more dry, situational, ironic comedy in greater representation could be nice. BG2 had aggressively comedic moments of different types. BG3 is definitely more serious than DOS2. Maybe tweaking the kind of humor represented is the way out.
I suspect that this is always going to be subjective and unfortunately I don’t think there’s there’s any easy way out that’s going to suit everyone, or any right answer. All we can do is share our impressions to give each other and Larian a sense of how things are landing for different folk.
And for me, personally, while some stuff could be polished, I don’t see the amount or quality of the comedy in BG3 so far as problematic, and generally enjoy the silly bits (even if the animals sometimes get too silly), the blacker comedy of Ethel, Mol’s gang and the goblins, the different ways in which our companions can be amusing, and so on.
I think my biggest problem with comedy in the game is that I don’t feel I can play an amusing, witty PC because the protagonist lines either aren’t there or aren’t well-written enough. I really hope that’s going to be addressed in the full release as it’s not fun feeling my charismatic bard, for example, is too often the butt of others’ jokes without having the wit to dish it out in return.
Mainly, though, my issues with the writing lie elsewhere entirely, but I and others have already discussed that at length in other threads.
