Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion What would you have preferred instead of the Emperor?

I agree that the flaw of act three is lack of polish but I don't think the problem is bloat. I do agree that Gortash and Orin needed more of build up.

For me, as someone who cares about lore, act 3 doesn't seem like it's taking place in faerun. It's robot fights, convincing the factory workers that they have nothing to lose but their control collars, and necrofire hellfire surface fights. Gortash is written to be an empty shell of person, a populist politician with no real core to him and while that sounds promising it turns out that finding that there's no there there isn't very fun.

Besides he dies on day 3 or so. And then you just need to forget about Orin and accept that there is no reason to focus on the other quests. Yes Shadowheart I meant to save the folks but perhaps we should do that after we stop the people in from exploding into mindflayers?

You really need to forget about the main plot - which is pretty easily done - to enjoy the boss battles.

So it's hard to say what's wrong because if you focus on the parts it seems good. Yes I liked Shar Cloister fight, yes I liked the Cazador battle, yes the city is lovely and feels like Baldurs Gate ( if you ignore the foundry). But the plot doesn't tie those together.

In BG3 there was a thread that tied the various side quest together. You need to raise enough money to pay off the shadow thieves. (and, in my head cannon, get strong enough to take on superpowered archmage)

And, as I've said before, it starts on bad note. For some reason you side with The Emperor over the Githyanki. And I don't know why my monster hating Tav did that.

It's Gith vs Mind Flayer who do you side with?! "The Gith! " <game over>

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It's Gith vs Mind Flayer who do you side with?! Uh. I guess anything other than "side with the monster" leads to game over so . . .

Good choice! Because the only reason someone would try to kill a eldritch horror that lies, manipulates, enslaves and murders is xenophobia glad you got past your aversion to tentacles. "Well, that's not really . . ." Don't argue bigot, just apologize to nice squid man.

"Oh I'm going to give him a piece of my mind!"

Actually no you won't. You will listen while they talk and accept that we've given him the good lines. Please enjoy the film, we put lots of effort into it.

"But I want to say . . ."

You've said enough, bigot.

Whatever, onto the next part of story, I guess.

Glad you came to your senses.