Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Storyline improvements?

Believe it based on what, though? There's evidence to suggest they had to cut the upper city out of act three, but the problems with the game go far beyond that. To the attack of a major city by a nautiloid going unremarked upon ever at any point, to the fact that a major section of land near a major city is horribly cursed and basically no one ever mentions it beyond that area, the way the game does not seem to actually know who the central antagonist is or if it does, utterly fails at presenting it. They added two companions by fan demand and completely screwed up in doing so, while a main companion who by evidence was always seeminglyintended to be a companion has a storyline that's just "collect these bits of useless metal and have a few conversations" only to then have a thematically baffling conclusion. Or the main villain of the second act, whose whole story revolves around family, having three random family members who no one in the game ever talks about and who muddle his themeing by their mere presence. Then there's the fact that we are presented with two ways to make it the the act 2 zone and they're framed as mutually exclusive, but there's actually no reason at all not to go to both, and in fact if you don't go to one of them then you lose one of your companions as well as missing out on informtion that makes later events of the story make complete sense. There are problems at every step of the way with this story, and the way I see it, they can mainly be traced to a lack of discipline on Larian's part, a lack of willingness to say no to ideas in favor of shoving in whatever seemed cool. If they had more time, we'd just get an upper city that has all the same problems and frustrations as the rest of the game, just maybe in a different package.

Let me point you to one other baffling choice there's really no excuse for; in the ilithid hive you can find notes that entirely spoil the reveal that the Absolute is a controlled elderbrain. What? When I first read those notes I thought "wow, if they're willing to spoil that, what other reveals do they have set up that they're saving? Turns out, nothing. Nothing at all. They just undermined what could have been an awesome moment for no apparent reason. That's what I call a lack of discipline. Stop asking for the people who made this poor story to fix it, they can't, they never could. Accept that the story is bad and move on to other games that do have good stories.