but then you look at bg3 choices and realize that almost all of them (or maybe literally all of them with that knockout patch?) are "you get a quest / exp / gear / another npc" vs "lol u get nufin gtfo"
Yeah this is the worst thing of all about BG3. They talk a good talk about being a game of choices and consequences, but it is complete BS. Sure, it has a ton of choices, but all of them are entirely superficial and meaningless, where they give people the feeling, the *illusion*, of a choice even though nothing meaningfully happens or changes in the world or the story or the quest. BG3 is the most railroady RPG of all time.