Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion Big spoilers, cut content and feelings after 2 playthroughs

I haven't experienced such mixed feelings in a long time. On the one hand, this is the best story I've seen in the gaming industry. On the other hand, I am very disappointed.

This will be a very big post. And I want to apologize for my English

To begin with, I will say that the fears began after the refusal of the limited party after the act 1. On the one hand, this was good news. but I began to fear that they lacked content.
Apparently it turned out to be true.
I can sometimes be wrong about official statements, I have been following the game and the news for a long time, and I can confuse fan theories with real promises

I wanted to go through the game at least 2 times on the good path of Tav and Dark Urge, and I eventually did it. My party -Astarion always Shadowheart Karlach. The rest have been replaced from time to time.

The music is also cut off. Larian says about its composition for each companion


Now in order
Act 1


-Lots of cut dialogue.
-- The entire top of the map is filled with activities. In Grimforge This Activity was getting less in EA. This is both the content of the camp and the plot. I thought that content would be added after the release, but no.
-Nautiloid - I may be wrong, but Larian it seems that we were promised to increase it and put our comrades there, In the end even cut off the deck
- Characters no longer care about their items (Necromancy of Thay, Artifact)
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I actually like the new interactions, but I don't understand why they cut the old ones.
When I played EA, I saw replay value. I spent 300 hours there without even touching the evil walkthrough, and always bumping into little new pieces.

-In crèche wary more content is cut off.



Act 2
I like the atmosphere and the plot, the interaction of companions.But this is insanely small for Tav, A little more for Dark Urge.
But I would like more disclosure of Ketrik, not only in writing.
And Larian also said act 2 is the biggest, but But it takes no more than 15 hours with some dialogue skipped. Act 1 fast run is 20 hours, skipping all dialogue.... In addition, the Moon Towers were announced as Act1. The city began with act 2. But now we ourselves see how everything has become...

Starting from Act 2, our decisions are ineffective.
There are almost no scenes with characters, only small comments, but they almost do not interact with each other and it will go into the 3rd act


Act 3

It looks big and confusing, But time accumulates not because of the plot, but because you run everywhere. This is not the saturation of the 1st half of act 1. There aren't really that many quests.

If you have lost half of your companions, the act will be even shorter, same with NPC. I won’t even talk about the endings, this has already been said many times.


Companion, romance

Some have almost no personal quest. Those who are connected to the main story are not so important to her.
After completing the personal quest, we have no continuation in the romance.
Astarion spoiler
All companion interactions reduced to one sentence in the camp. And there are almost no events in the camp. In total, there are 2 romantic scenes per act per companion. Larian bragged about their romantic branch but it is not much different from other games... No, I really like the companion, they are very catchy, but even in the Astarion branch there are a lot of holes.
I'm not talking about Mintar and Karlakh.





And most importantly in act 3
I'm not sure, but I think Larian was talking about the upper city a couple of months ago. That there will be quests and we will be able to walk there