Well, for me the way the story conducts itself after you meet the Emperor, and act 3, it just killed all desire to replay it.
Imo it is not GOTY worthy after the last act, but I think this game, if they ever finish it, has the potential to be more than a GOTY.
Interesting that you worked in game dev, anything we would be familiar with?
I really feel like 99% of people who say it's GOTY or even of the decade either haven't played it or are still in act 1.
Not saying it's impossible for people to think that, but just the shere level of the hype really comes across like that.
And often times people will even say it, sometimes they've only played like a few hours and already decided it's the most revolutionary and innovating game ever and game of the decade.
Imo BG3 felt like an old *unfinished* and rushed out old Bioware game like DA:O or ME1-2.
Like don't get me wrong I did enjoy it overall in spite of Act 3, but it's really not anything that hasn't been done before and the story is not as good I'd even say it's fairly weak for a RPG imho.
I do think BG3 has excellent character writing, not flawless or anything but the companions are great and feel a lot more '' human '' than they usually do and I also think this is why a lot of people think that the story is amazing too and they're kinda mistaking enjoying the characters for the actual story.
I think another issue with it too on replay is that it sorta makes a lot of it feel irrelevant, like most of the main plot for most of the game is '' wander around try to find a cure ''.
But when you know that's not really possible then it sorta makes it feel pointless, and then when the actual main plot kicks in it sorta just loses a lot of steam and starts sprinting through stuff.
I'd also say that the difficulty and combat is a huge issue for me on replay, I got insanely bored and just gave up on my second playthrough because every encounter felt like a slog that took too long and when there's no challenge it becomes a bit unbearable.
And knowing what's to come with the main plot I feel no drive to do anything regarding the main plot up until that.
It's not like I've never replayed RPG's before I've replayed DA:O and the ME games more times than I probably should I've lost count, but with BG3 I just had a total lack of motivation and everything '' new '' I wanted to see was basically just the fixed MInthara stuff I could just look up on Youtube.
