The characters *are* the game, BG3 has certain companions telling you take the power or destroy it the whole game, at the end, if you control absolute, they get mind controlled by you and cease to exist. If you destroy them, roll a die if it's a 14 you'll get to hear from one of those characters, roll another die to see what about? Sorry bub RNG says its a joke about Lae'zel, you get no resolution for that character, your relationship with them or their saving the world.
It's not more important than saving refugees, its more important than your companions who have been the bulk of the content of the game. Having companions root for you to sieze control, even during the cutscene when you make the decision, be irrelevant to the conclusion of it? and the same if you destroy it.
Hopefully the rumour of a bugged out six month later epilogue is true, or Larian can do what Bioware did with ME3 and slap on a, heres what your companions did epilogue on the end, of atleast the destroy ending if not both.
I agree with most of that. There’s definitely room for improvement, especially on the evil side by all accounts. I’ve not done an “evil” playthrough yet, and I admit it’s a bit off putting to discover there aren’t variations allowing to be just an arsehole dictator for instance with the brain under your control.
I also agree with people saying that rejecting or using the parasites (certainly the special one, if not the regular) should make a significant difference. An easy change that would actually make more sense is if you needed to give the special tadpole to Orpheus for him to make the sacrifice instead of you. It could just be a unique item you can’t remove from inventory. Then maybe if you’ve embraced the powers of the regular ones, Lae’zel decides you are already too far gone to allow her prince to take your place and turns hostile or something?
So, yeah. It could be better and it would be good if Larian are willing to take another look at some of it, but I don’t think it irredeemably shit. I certainly don’t think it’s as bad as many are saying. Nor should it require an enormous overhaul to address, just a few tweaks here and there.
