So yes, let's praise BioWare for their world building, but do not try to tell us, BG2 is a better Roleplaying Game than BG3, in most people head's, a Role playing game just means "A good written game with binary choices".
Sorry, but I'm going to tell you exactly that, that BG3 is an absolutely lousy roleplaying game. It is precisely in roleplaying choices that I have my strongest criticisms for BG3. BG3 is a very glitzy superficial game that gives you the illusion of choices and alternative approaches to problem-solving, but where in reality your choices don't matter much and railroading is the norm in the game. Furthermore, even those illusory choices are over a very narrow range, where many other RPGs do give a much broader range of roleplaying choices than BG3. BG3 talks a good talk about such things as choices and consequences and options for roleplaying, but it does not walk the walk, even to the extent that the original BG games did.
Glitzy superficial. Illusion of choices. Railroading. ----that's just BG2, except in BG2 you even have less choices and more illusion.
Can you give me an example of what are these choices you think is just illusion in BG3?
BG2 triple the number companions. Triple the fun. BG2 6 party members. BG2 day/night/weather/time. BG2 more classes, more kits. BG2 friendship dialogues. More dialogue options. Who cares if its an illusion of choice (actually for many it is not). Exactly the same for BG3, in the end nothing really matters. So more is MORE, more roleplaying opportunity. Way better than less. BG2 different strongholds for every classes. BG2 WAY better leveling. Higher level spells.
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It just reminded me of the bowl of goat's milk that old Winthrop used to put outside his door every evening for the dust demons. He said the dust demons could never resist goat's milk, and that they would always drink themselves into a stupor and then be too tired to enter his room..
