Now that it only affects perception and persuasion checks it is only...still ridiculously terrible. I did not think there was any way in heck they would leave it in with no cure for the entire game. I'm playing a ranger/sorcerer with the urchin trait who acts as a scout and trap disarmer. Except now he misses half of the darn traps! I bought an item that gives advantage on perception checks but apparently the Hag's eye curse nullifies that as well. I was hoping it would make it a wash and just set me back to baseline, even if the weapon is bleh at best compared to what I was previously using, at least it would let me find most things again. Nope. The curse just wipes out the buff. Lesser Restoration doesn't work. Remove Curse doesn't work. Bloody "Heal," which is supposed to fix EVERY physical malady does not work. I don't get it.
PC fans seem near unanimous in that it is a bit too steep of a price considering she could not hold up her end of the bargain. At all. If it is taking away fun for P&P CRPG vets who are used to DM's making the occasional *awful* call, imagine the backlash from console players? I bet that literally ruins the game for a ton of them, and don't kid yourself, about half will be playing versions of Aragorn who can no longer do his job as a Ranger because he keeps stepping on things ;^) .
I have very, very few gripes about this game, but that is probably a top 3 *fun* stealer. I tried to play with it, no, I did play with it. I'd have to go back literally 200+ hours in my first playthrough of the full game to change my pick. 20 Wisdom and I am still walking into ambushes and missing the obvious half of the time. I just can't believe that 277 hours into a playthrough, of which I have been max level for the last 100 or so hours, there is still no cure to be found. Craziness. That's another minor problem (the level cap) as there is just way too much content for completionists to force them to be basically stuck for over 100 hours with a maxed out character with pretty much no way to improve...well anything at this point. I'm not getting better gear, or at least not noticeably. All I can do is try to tie up loose ends and try to fix what I can before the finale. Except it appears I can't fix a bunch of them. Erg. The level cap I get as that would cost tens if not hundreds of thousands to add new spells, new effects, re-balance etc...but the Hag Curse?
Oh well, if that is my biggest complaint about the game (it also makes the character look weird) then it truly is a masterpiece. Yep. That is probably number 2 for me in things that I would change. First would be the level cap and I already understand that I'll have to mod that in on my second playthrough if I want a higher level cap for financial reasons if nothing else. Then the Hag. Then the no console command line. After that it's the crafting system, or lack thereof. Divinity had a much better system for crafting. This is the worst I've seen in an RPG since...it's the worst that I can recall in an RPG that had crafting. Alchemy is good and the few things we can craft are cool enough I guess. And not being able to romance Jaheira. Think about it. She'd be somewhere between 58 and 65 in human years depending on how she aged and how much elf she had in her. She's in great shape, eats a balanced diet of fruits, veggies, buts berries and fresh meat while being incredibly active. I think she'd still be pretty active in the friskyness department. Then we have real life. I *know* there are a ton of people 60+ who are playing BG3. I know a ton of people who were 40+ when BG2 came out and romanced Jaheira. Well, I know one. I bunked with a 47-year-old at GenCon 2001. I was covering it along with the release of NWN for a website. I'm just saying that I hope that was pulled for time reasons and not age reasons. A shape shifted Druid is fine. An alien is fine. But someone almost at retirement age? Well that is just pushing the envelope a little too far! Now please fix my eye Larian. Jaheira has better vision than I do.
