Are people genuinely trying to compare the humor of Baldur's Gate and/or Baldur's Gate 2 to that of Larian's zanier attempt? Holy cow.
They are. The Larian generation is fixated with Minsc/Tiax/Dradeel/JanJansen when they clearly had a well justified, integrated and circumscribed role in the game. Maybe the originals Fallout humor was also off-putting, immersion-breaker and made it a incoherent game. There is little point arguing.
As a side note, I think Larian did a good job on the Globins, which are more in keep with their expertise.
Ironic that you mention Fallout here, because Larian writing is very close to Fallout 2. Fallout 2 world was zany and whimsical, it was literally a parody with dark undertones that's why silly jokes worked there. Same with BG3. That's why these worlds are immersive, while BG 1 and 2 felt extremely cringy with all the out of place stuff you encountered.
