Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Some criticism (SPOILERS!)

Will start from most disappointing ones - in game about Bladur's Gate, you will not go futher said gate. Developers created massive additional locations like Underdark, but for some reason decided not to let us into upper city. It really felt like they run out of budget and decided to cut things. Or maybe not, but it still feels... weird.

Second - no epilogue. I feel like every good crpg should have an epilogue, reflecting on our actions and showing the consequence. Ending feels rushed and lacks fufillment.

Tech state of the game is far from release worthy. Companions constantly being stuck somewhere and you have to go back to pick them up, citizens run around, scared of any summon, making mage gameplay problematic. Quests glitch. But most crusical problem for me was in combat - at some point of the game enemies start to overthink their moves. For example, in last fight every tentacle took around 30 seconds to make a move. Because of this i literally hated every long fight that included random npc's running around, and lots of enemies - simply because such fights could last for hour and more, with how slow npc's think. Also there are minor stuff like broken mithril weapons, missing translation parts, etc.

Game design wise, it could be a lot better to have shared inventory, at least for single player, because moving items from character to character is tedious and boring. I don't see any value in that.

Camera has a giant problem with not being able to see elevated place, unless you have a character there. Several times i faced a problem where i could not target specific point with my flying ability just because camera would not let me see the upper floor. Maybe it is possible to switch heights somehow, but game did not tell me the way to do that.

I might be wrong, because i only finished game once, but it seems like consuming illithid tadpoles has no downsides. By not doing it players only restrict themselves from powerful abilities, but gain no benefits story wise.

Rng is quite terrible. 3 misses in a row with 75% hit chance is a regular occurance, and it feels wrong. Carmic dice does not help with that.

Some of the quests, like searching for clown parts are very vague and it's hard to complete them without walktrough. And rewards for such hard quests could be better.

Minsc could be recruited only when there is a few missions left before the end of the game... why so late?

Companions often seem confused. For example, in Ball ending Astarion says that i should take the power for myself, but when i do so, he says "what the hell are you doing?".

Story wise... i liked certain quests, especially at the beginning. And main story were cool and mysterious... utill the Moonrise Towers. Once you enter the city, you already saw biggest plot twist, and the entire final act has no surprises at all, it is absolutly predictable and... not as engaging as previous acts. Idk, maybe i am a bit biased here, since as a video game writer myself i hardly hate anything more than dull endings, that do not have some major twist in it.

Some of the companion quests (i haven't seen them all yet) also feel bland. For example, Astarion's quest reminded me a simillar quest in Enderal - there you are also helping a stray assasin to take down his creator and master. But in Enderal there is a sudden twist - when you reach the master, it appears that you got it all wrong, and instead of just experimenting on children, master took only those with lethat diagnosis, who would die anyway, and gave them a chance to live. Even more - instead of having some sinister plot he only wants to ascent and become and unmaterial being. And Astarion's quest goes in very predictable route instead - his master were as evil as described, and only significant choice we are making - is what to do with the power.

Also, watching how my very unathletic mage climbing a kilometer of spine was very silly. It would be wiser to let players use some kind of flying creature, or magic to teleport there. But climbing... meh.