I beat the game once and haven't played again yet, but it was fun
I will probably play again someday, but with a different approach based on lessons learned.
It took me probably 275 hours or so... which includes many re-dos of battles because some were difficult for me. Really enjoyed (thanks Larian!)
I'm somewhat of a completionist, and sometimes I wish I wasn't. In the case of BG3, I wish I wasn't, and wish I had set better boundaries for myself. I took so much stuff that I didn't need that ended up sitting in my camp's chest all game it was crazy. Lesson learned.
* In my next playthrough, I'm taking hardly anything. And if I swap out weapons or clothes, don't keep the old ones. I will just quickly toss or sell, since I never once re-used an old item that I decided I didn't want to equip in my party.
I tried to explore every crate, vase, shelf, rack, nook, cranny, and everything else. Tried to do all the dialogues, all the side quests (only missed a couple early on when I was still learning how the game works), and tried to read every book and text I could (the ones where I couldn't get caught) -- well, at least 'open' every book (quickly skim through, sometimes not paying attention) and then save the books/texts to my camp. I don't like reading in games, but do understand they help with immersion and lore.
In the end, I had
811 books/texts/readables in my camp's chest; some duplicates, no doubt. Lesson learned: they did me no good
Only benefit is that I can read through them at my leisure now. I may do that to an extent at some point to learn more lore. (Even though I bet someone has posted them online, so it was even more of a wasted effort that I did that. Oh well)
Nothing wrong with Larian's approach to the stuff. I like that they put junk objects and such all over to help make the world feel more realistic, and let us hold on to anything and everything we wanted. It's on my shoulders to change my ways based on lessons learned if I want. I've learned that I don't want to be a hoarder next time and probably not try to search in every single box/crate, shelf, corpse, and so on. I think I want a more streamlined, go-with-the-flow experience next time
Did you have any lessons learned without being too spoilery? Did you also collect every book or something else that you later regretted spending all that time on?
