This is an amazing RPG but the game processes from a master piece of story telling and plot development, to progressively go down hill with the last bit being a mad rush to the bottom.
Is this really true though?
I've watched Larian drop the ball on endings in multiple games now. My diagnosis is actually a bit different. From where I'm standing, problems with the main plot begin *right away.* I don't actually think that starting the game off with an epic chase on an alien spaceship, multiple dragons, teleporting to hell, etc. is a very good way to start the game, in fact I think it is very bad. It's a longstanding Larian tendency in writing where they apparently think that rushing as many "epic" things into the plot as quickly as possible makes it better, whereas it in fact just cheapens them imo. BG3 is never at any point a "masterpiece of storytelling and plot development." What it does have is some pretty good *sidequest* writing, and really fun gameplay early on, and that fun gameplay helps to gloss over the weakness in the writing. It's later on, where the gameplay begins to unravel, that people begin noticing the lackluster plot more. This is compounded by the fact that the writing itself does genuinely decrease in quality as the game goes on.
Agreed, but that wasn't always the case for Larian. Divine Divinity had proper pacing, though obviously an old and low budget game with far lower production quality. Those particualar issue only started with Divinity Original Sin and it's sequal.
I think you just missed the biggest flaw though. The MC should be meaningfully and uniquely tied into the story. There must be a reason why YOU go out and try fix things, and why your companions look to you as the leader and defer to your descisions. And you only have to look at the classics with good and memorable stories to see that in use. BG1, BG2, DA1 (sort of), DA2, ME123, PS:T, NWN2 MotB, all had that and it's why their stories worked so well without ever feeling contrived. The origin character mechanic completely undermines that. It reduces "tav's" role to a subset of an origin character, and an irrelevant part of the story.
