Well in my thread I simply stated that act 3 isnt done, it is still EA.
And the tower speech certainly falls in that category. Parts of act 3 are quite honestly ridiculous, with bugs and all. For the scene you mentioned Shadowheart is in my party, yet when the fist guy starts talking she is standing next to him. And.. then my party opens the doors and walks in??? Just wow. Inexcusable after 3 years in early access.
I feel like after we contributed to early access for 3 years. We are owed a finished game so they better get to work. The game can still be a masterpiece but work needs to be done.
Yeah the animations can be really janky too in cutscenes, I really felt like it got way jankier in the last sections of act 3.
Even act 1 still has a lot of jank.
Today for instance I was talking to Minthara about the Grove and managed to intimidate her into '' you don't get to tell me what to do '' and she dropped it.
Then I speak to her again because I am doing evil playthrough and want to kill the Grove, I just didn't want to be a pushover about it.
And she just restarts the same conversation as the first one where she starts reading my mind and the same dialogue options like nothing happened lol.
There's a fair bit of '' jump cuts '' in the animations during dialogue sometimes too.
I definitely do feel like being a bit extra critical towards Larian due to the hype and praise they're getting, with that I think higher expectations is kinda justified.
It feels like there's a bit too much of them touting their own horn and people uncritically following suit.
Like okay they're not doing mtx, good for them and us too I guess.
But I still think they released the game in a bit of an unacceptable state which according to all the hype they're supposed to be above and people are a bit too keen on shrugging it off and making excuses for it.
Edit: Oh yeah on the Minthara example too, another one was the Tyr and Karlach thing Lae'zel and my character was commenting on '' are we really going to hunt a devil for them? '', after I had already killed her and given them her head rofl ( and also killed them afterwards, so everyone involved was dead ).
Even in the act 1 early access playtested content there's so much of this I am running into the facade of polish really wears off.
