Ok, I made an account on here just to vent my frustration. I think I heard about BG3 coming out in late 2022 - I was super extremely excited. I am pushing 40 and do not have the time or interest to play many games these days anymore but having spent most of my teenage years / early 20s GMing various D&D plus having absolutely LOVED BG1 (especially) and 2 ( to a lesser extent)... Color me excited. Fast forward to last week I buy the early access, thinking I would just dabble around in Act 1 til August 3rd.... I am ready to stop playing after about 4 hours and uninstall.
Mindflayers ? The rogue dude seems to be a vampire ? They sent a bunch of level 3 characters to rescue some arch druid from a bunch of goblins (how did that happen exactly ? And what is my party supposed to do that the arch druid could not himself ??? )I see a fricking red dragon through the telescope on top of the Druids Cave ?????
What exactly would have been wrong with taking the (granted, completely absurd and way over the top) prologue but then turning it into a "normal" BG game ? The mindlayer ship crashes on the beach, you get blown out, you look for other survivors.... And then I would much rather fight 2-3 goblins, or maybe some giant spider, an orc, a wolf .... Is this really what "the casuals" want ? Red dragons, mind flayers, flesh golems and so on ?
I thought this would be the game of the year for me. I am honestly very sad to see they turned it into this clown fiesta.
You don’t fight the mind flayer or the red dragon. The Archdruid was overwhelmed by an entire fortress worth of goblins, ogres, hobgoblins, bugbears, and drow. You don’t fight them all at once; you either talk or sneak your way in and do it one by one intelligently. Like maybe going after their leaders. Or freeing the Druid to help you. Maybe play the game to find out how you do what he could not.
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