Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion [ENDING SPOILERS] Small clarification about the Absolute

You are completely right. The more I think about the ending and the plot of the story, the less sense it makes.

Also it saddens me that our range of choices and freedom is reduced gradually through the game:

In Act I there would be like 10-15 different ways to solve a quest/do stuff - all of them would be fun and interesting = Amazing and immersive.

In Act II there would be around 5-10 ways to solve stuff - you get a clear feeling that the narrative gets thinner and less open compared to Act I, but still amazing compared to most other games (just not compared to Act I of the same game!)

And then you hit Act III - which for most people is probably the part they looked forward to the most, and yes the city looks AMAZING, but the story/main plotline slowly falls apart and with most quests you are left with 1-5 ways to solve them (most of it is just fighting your way through no matter what, not nearly as fun or immersive as Act I), and most of the time it doesn't really matter how you do stuff and you also start realizing that most of the stuff you did in Act I and II also doesn't really matter and didn't really have any relevance in the overall plot of the story.

The ending has all your deeds reduced to who shows up as "summons" in the final battle. The amount of different ways to go about things is now almost down to 1. Nothing is good or bad, nothing really gets explained, characters can now suddenly just enter into ceremorphosis without being tadpoled, characters that have aligned goals suddenly feel the need to fight each other with no apparent reason, all your efforts to not allow the tadpole to effect you in 200+ hours of gameplay is made redundant and you are left with more questions than answers. And when you ask those questions you are not left with the feeling that the answer is out there - you are left with the feeling that there is indeed no answer, 'cause it's just not thought through. It's just not made properly.

The clumsy, illogical and just downright stupid ending made me forget how epic a game I just played. And that is by far the biggest shame off this game.