Still, it's questionable if the Definitive Edition will solve all problems or change the narrative at all, because if they haven't been able to come up with good writing within 8 years, why should they be capable of doing so now?
What do you mean, "they haven't been able to come up with good writing within 8 years"? What's wrong with the writing in the past 8 years? Isn't that when they wrote BG3?
Well it is not bad, but they changed so many narrative things on characters (like Halsin, Wyll etc.), they changed major plot lines (like the background story between Halsin and Ketheric), there are lot of plot holes, the whole Emperor is poorly written, they pick up some many plot threads and never end them etc.
If you check some threads on the forums, you'll see lots of complaints written by the fans, explaining that a lot more in detail than what would be good for this thread.
Also, I'm sure all my Minty fans on here can explain in detail why she is also a character that suffers from bad writing decisions
I had no exposure to BG3 before its initial release. From my experience as someone who started with the initial release (well, Patch 4 to be exact), the story of BG3 is quite cohesive and complete. The writing is excellent. I wouldn't go so far as to call the plot airtight. I did identify at least one inexplicable plot hole, but the story and writing are still far superior than what's considered the norm for RPG and adventure games.
From my experience, Minthara feels underdeveloped and incomplete. I wouldn't attribute that to poor writing. There is ample evidence from BG3 that Larian is quite capable of stellar character development. Rather, I think Larian just didn't finish what they wanted to deliver for her and decided to deliver her as an incomplete part of the whole. That's a shame. I've said it before—it probably would have been cleaner to remove her companion character and leave her as a boss. No one who had no experience with the BG3 EA would know any better. For all I know, there was an incomplete Alfira companion that was left on the cutting room floor.
It took me about 150 hours of pure entertainment to finish BG3 the first time, and I've spent almost 700 hours playing in total. I'm truly disappointed to hear that there will be no new BG3 content, but I'm happy for what I got.
