Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion Larian dropped the ball on endings - Why and how to fix it - (SPOILERS)

My take is this.

Act 1 and 2 are really well done. Then Act 3 shows up and you are just smacked in the face with the most unfinished part of a game I can remember.

Once you reach Act 3 and the illusion of the "masterpiece" is lifted, you start seeing that:
- The choice in this game boils down to 3 options
- Consequences are non-existent outside of X companion dies.
- Replayability, does not exist.

Act 3 is just pure QA hell. But the threads of where the plot goes wrong harken all the way back to the first time you meet the Emperor. And so I must echo what others have said regarding this. The late addition of the Emperor and the rewrite of the story around him dooms what would otherwise have been an amazing plot. The way it is though?
- Why would I care about creating my guardian when the character I create simply does not exist?
- I am honestly conditioned into hating the Emperor by the way the game is forcing him on me.
- I am not even sure where I am going with all this anymore, it is just frustrating to see.
*It is clear that the fix is to properly QA act 3, do a repass on the story and reintroduce daisy and consequences. If they do that, the game can indeed be a masterpiece. If they are going to reintroduce cut content (which I support), they also need to increase the level cap to 14. I was already running around lvl 12 for the entirety of the BG storyline. And I even skipped the creche entirely.

And FFS do not force me to have my fate in someone elses hand the entire game.