First off there are a ton of spoilers for everything story related here!
I am (was?) one of the biggest Larian supporters you could find. DOS2 is still one of my all time favorite rpg's. I was beyond excited for them to do a Baldurs Gate game. Now ... after having "finished" it, I will have to think twice on buying another Larian product again.
It's simple, the ending, or utter and complete lack thereof is a complete slap in the face to all the gamers out there who spent TONS of hours falling in love with the characters they spent so much time with. Honestly I'm astonished they can even sell this game as a complete game. It's not.
In my game, I was Astarion as a main player character, and romanced Karlach and nobody else. She had a fully upgraded engine and I had exceptional relationships with everyone else.
In the final battle (omg so bad, but that's another thread) I chose to have Opheus become the Illithid, and once we killed the brain, here's what happened:
1- I agree to kill orpheus
2- Laezel rides off into the sunset on a dragon to liberate her people from the lich queen (this was great, loved it!)
3- Gale contemplates using the crown, I convince him otherwise, he agrees and says he'll turn it over to Mystra (okay boring but makes sense)
4- Wyll says he wants to have a party and drink a beer at a tavern
5- Astarion suddenly turns light sensitive and ABANDONS the love of his life and all his companions and goes to live in a cave without a single word to anyone, most importantly the woman he loves Karlach
6- Karlach says "I'm getting hot" and falls down and explodes. I was given no dialog choices, no conversation choices, nothing whatseover. I had zero options to choose anything for her. The game forced her to explode and die.
7- credits
WHATTTTTTT???????????????????????????????? I just don't even understand. I have so many emotions. Anger. Confusion. I feel betrayed. I love these characters. The ending simply didn't even exist. There was nothing.
So to summarize:
There are 13 members of my camp, only 4 of which have any ending at all, and only 2 of those endings make sense. So 2/3 of the entire camp is just completely missing from the endgame, and of the 4 who have screen-time, half of that is either bugged, or doesn't make any sense at all.
Astarion - makes zero sense, so confusing, is this a bug? Or just horrifying writing?
Karlach - I know there's supposed to be some way to get her to go to Avernus with Wyll and myself, but I have no idea how to choose that. And I even had Wyll become the Blade of Avernus specifically for this. NEVER got any options with her. Forced death. Awesome.
Laezel - makes sense, good ending!
Gale - boring, but makes sense, good ending!
Shadowheart - totally 100% missing. Never had a single cutscene or dialog ever. What happened? Bug? Just totally unfinished? Completely missing content?
Wyll - says he wants to drink a beer at a local tavern. That's it. Nothing else. What happened? Bug? Unfinished?
Duke Ravengard - nothing whatsoever.
Minsc - nothing whatsoever.
Jaheira - nothing whatsoever.
Halsin - nothing whatsoever.
Aylin & Isobel - nothing whatsoever.
Arabella - nothing whatsoever.
Mizora - nothing whatsoever.
This is a MASSIVE amount of missing content that simply DOES NOT EXIST in my ending. This isn't even a complete game. How can they sell it as such? Why did I even bother doing ANYTHING at all with all those people in my camp?
Astarion would never Abandon Karlach like that. Karlach should have had some option to NOT DIE. Gale and Laezel are fine, and then literally zero content for anyone else. WHAT? I cannot in good conscience recommend anyone play this game and will have to think extremely hard on future Larian developments.
Has anyone else had any content for Shadowheart or any of the other missing people I never got anything for?
