Maybe I am a small little crybaby, but BG3 feels too depressing for me.
I enjoyed Act 1 very much. Wonderful overground and underground levels, lots of secrets, you get to at least meet all of the followers, some roleplay too (I expected more, but my expectations are my problems). Even then Act 1 has its share of unbearable douchebags:
Kagha (really, shadow druids seem to be the lamest attempt to make druids evil-aligned, not BG3's fault tho). The rest of the druids who follow Kagha's orders like she's Stalin, not a fellow hippy teaching harmony. Mol and her (at first, I thought Mol was a boy) underage bandits hellbent to get into trouble and make fools of their parents. Nettie and Mayrina's brothers throwing their life away for some rotten reason. Mayrina... no comments on Mayrina, really, she's a godawful person. Oh, and the Giths -- really, both Vlaakith loyalists and rebels feel like psychos you'd better avoid.
But that's act 1. Act 2 is just... well, if you saved the tieflings, most are killed off screen. If you speak to Isobel in Last Light Inn, chances are the surprise fight will fucking destroy Last Light (of course, Marcus, the Absolute has given you wings because she loves you, not because it is convient to have your kidnappers airborne). Destroyed Last Light is minus 30 people right of the bat. Maybe 40. Perfect. Our railroady DM is a fan of the trolley problem, it seems, and he wants to see the trolley to run over more people. I bet it is so much worse when you're playing Dark Urge, but I never was interested in the Urgelord.
The location itself is just... well, grasslands and crystal caves disappear. Now we're exploring smoker's lungs from the inside. Shadows drop cheap tear jerkers called "shadow remnants". Ketheric relatives are turned into nasty monsters -- wow, what a subtle metaphor for sin. Nasty is really the keyword here. Everything is so nasty, foul, angsty, goddammit.
My problem with BG3 is that I had left no stone unturned in Act 1 and have no wish to turn any stones in Act 2. BG3 seems like a good game, but I'd rather whine about it on some forum rather than attempt to sit through the gloomy bore one more time. It's more fun that way.
P.S. What's the deal with all those villains who consider friendly fire a form of team building practice? Ketheric does it. The Gith do it. Nere does it (justified, Nere is a stupid hate-filled manling who think he is done licking cunts). Regill from Wrathfinder does it. Down with this "for the evulz" routine. It is not effective, it is an 8 INT (at best) move which damages your army and foments disloyalty.
