BG3 is a good game but hardly an anomaly, act 1 and 2 were really good but act 3 was a flop and the ending kinda meh, much prefer the slides in WOTR to three peasants with clubs and sickles killing 2 mind flayers. The graphics and animations are clearly better than WOTR and the voice acting is impressive for almost everyone, having everything voiced with a narrator is a big plus.
There are some really good quests and especially the companion quests. And speaking of companions they were all interesting albeit a bit too horny, sadly Karlach was the only one that felt out of place for me, her dialogue would have been awesome in Cyberpunk2077 but dind't really fit someone in dnd that just fought 10 years in hell.
The biggest complain might be the core system of the game, the ruleset of dnd 5e, my only experience with dnd are video games so no idea how it is in the tabletop or pen&paper, but compared to Pathfinder it felt like a dumbed down version fit for console or mobile games, tactician was way too easy, maybe they should add one more difficulty setting for people who want to spend more time with the battles and actually need to use some potions/scrolls etc.

If the game would have ended in act 2 with the defeat of Ketheric and throw in some more sidequests in the acts, it would have been a far better game. The whole second act is about ketheric, you can see his influence everywhere his whole family is across the map and you can learn things about his past his wife and daughter etc. the whole tragic shabang, was really good.
And then in act 3 you arrive to the coronation of gortash where he spills his whole plan in front of everyone and just let's you go instead of just killing you and take the stone right then and there, he clearly didn't need you because orin can't hurt him and he has the whole city under control to deal with the little bhaal cult to take full control but anyway, orin has a cool design but there is hardly any story, besides her mother and sarevok wanted to kill her as a child. It was just boring compared to ketheric, and weird that they didn't attack you after the events at moonrise towers. And yeah the netherbrain with its supreme calculations lets you climb it to see the grand design in action... the emperor instantly joining the brain when you don't give him the stones etc. and then the ending at the pier all feels so rushed and without much thought.
But still it's a good game and many criticisms are reinforced because of the massive hype around the game, i will definitely play it again in maybe a year or so and would instantly buy a dlc, but WOTR, for me, was the slightly better game.

Last edited by Buri; 20/08/23 11:33 PM.