Well, why is everyone so happy to accept a badly researched and unsourced list as gospel? Why did it spread like wildfire? Those are the questions people, including Larian themselves, should be asking.
Indeed. Seems people are
missing something.
Although it's not very convincing when the community update states the upper city was never meant to be freely explorable (because why wouldn't it be?!), I agree with Ixal here
the large quality drop in act 3 [...] is about the pacing and narrative which falls apart which gets blamed on cut content
I'm all for cutting content if it improves the story. For example the whole side quest
about the underground dragon (including the revelation that the Emperor used to be Balduran)
could have been cut for all I care, because it doesn't add anything to the story imo.
What I'm missing really are good resolutions / closures for different story threads. For example
when freeing Orpheus with the Emperor around, first I have have to go through the whole why-don't-you-trust-me-after-all-I-did-for-you dialoge with the Emperor again although at that point it's well-established that he's a manipulative lying bastard. And after dealing with him it's just "we need a mindflayer for the job who is it going to be? You (PC) or me (Orpheus)?" And then Orpheus transforms into a mindflayer spontaneously (without a tadpole in his head) and all I can say is "You're a true hero!" That's laughable. Especially after all the built up and anticipation around Orpheus as antagonist to Vlaakith (who got quite an entry in contrast.)
Anyway, all in all I enjoyed the game a lot, but I feel like SiriusVI. This could have been literature.
It's so frustrating, because all the stars were alligned for BG3 to be a masterpiece of a game, a true work of art. Such an opportunity does not come very often, and for now, I feel like it's gone.
