Originally Posted by Ixal
Saying the Pathfinder companions are a "bunch of walking tropes and cardboard cutouts" while praising the BG3 ones is certainly a statement...
BG3s companions are flashy because Larian threw money at VA and cinematics. But they are all style with only weak substance.

100%.
I would go on to say BG2 has more well written characters than the entire BG3 cast.

Why is it that I can replay Pathfinder Wotr, BG2, IceWindDale, Planescape Torment, PoE2 Deadire, Fallout 2, Disco Elysium...and still have tons of fun, yet with BG3 my second play-through was pure torture? Particularly after chapter 2.

Imagine taking away ALL VA and cinematics from BG3. Replace dialogue with text, and thing about the game content again.

Last edited by Count Turnipsome; 29/10/23 01:39 AM.
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..