Well, Sophie.
The general consensus is that act 3 is rushed. Which is why we got the railroaded nonsensical plot point of choose X squid. All we can do is voice our dissatisfaction and hope Larian comes out with something more coherent.
For me, I mainly play RPGs for story and RP. Since the game in its current form is lacking in the story department, and RP is severly limited, I will not come back for the next game is this is what I can expect. We all loved act 1-2, which is why we are way too forgiving regarding the state of the entire game as a whole. Imo.
I usually do not write posts like this on any forums, but because of the general opinion about Larian is that they really listen to the fanbase, I decided to share those thoughts. As a person that had experience working in gamedev, I understand that sometimes you can not do what you wanted in the planned timeline. However, I think in this case there were some changes made to the plot at the final lap of development, and for adjusting those changes to the general plot there was not enough time. Hopefully, they will react to the feedback of the whole community like with the previous ones.
Even with this ending, I believe this game deserves GOTY title, as Larian showed that games can be amazing without any microtransaction and not beeing "game as a serivice" . Probably this will not change the way of working of AAA studios, but maybe at least the number of released games with a game breaking bugs will be smaller.
