Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Every time I get to act 3...

I didn't have the feeling of being "rushed" to the elder brain finale. There are a few occurances that push you to one or other sidequest, but I found this quite fun after all.
- Misora constantly urging you to attend the archduke's inauguration. But there's no push to fight him. Could differ according to playing style, but I found it quite logical and natural to ally with him so as to betray him when the time was right for me.
-I read all the posters and plaques and the first time I read the poster about Florrick's "treason", I thought it said "execution takes place in 5 days.". Next time I reread that poster, I saw "execution takes place in 3 days". So suddenly I wasn't sure if I read it well the first time or if the time is really running out. I couldn't go back to check so put Florrick on top of my sidequest priorities. I think this "rime running out" was quite a fine touch to the quest. (If I didn't imagine it all )
- Finally the Baldur's mouth quest is pushed on you. Had a lot of trouble fining out how to do it. But it was quite original and different from the "normal" quests.

I also found the House of Grief quest quite revealing after finishing the bad guys. But maybe I've got a soft spot for Shadowheart. I felt very badly for all that she was put through. (As remarked in some other threads on the forum. There should have been a big hug-moment after this quest.)

Cazador's quest ended very bizarre for me too. My plan was to keep to the good side, release the spawn and just kill Cazador. But out of curiosity I wanted to see the cutscenes of Astharion ascending also. The plan was just to check that out and then return to the "good" flow and continue on from there.
But then the Gurs came and insulted my party in both flows, good and bad. That made me so angry at them that I changed plans and continued with the "bad" Astarion flow.
(I didn't include Astarion in my team anyway, so it wouldn't make much difference I suppose. Only took him with me to Cazador because it was his quest after all.)

Not all the quests felt bad for me, but I do agree that they are all packed too tight in a small area, and intermingle too much with eachother because they're practically in neighbouring doors.