Shin
Cipher
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- Jan 5, 2015
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Welp, I didn't read this thread, waited a few months before trying BG3 (I was going to play it to form my own opinion, being a huge BG1/2 fan) and managed to finish it a few weeks ago. The combat is enjoyable enough (as the D:OS games were), the D&D mechanics are a lot simpler than I was expecting but do a decent enough job and uhhh, well, I suppose these are the positives. The writing is simply terrible - I haven't played anything Bioware put out post Mass Effect 2 but I have a hard time believing they could do worse. The companions are all insufferably annoying, the new Forgotten Realms 'lore' sucks (although that's probably not on Larian) and while I'm not usually one to complain about 'woke' shit, the 'modern sensibilities' of how Faerun/the Sword Coast is portrayed strays so far from the IE games that I felt dirty for having played it (luckily I didn't have to pay for it since a GoG installer showed up on my harddrive one day). The music is bland (my god the song that plays in the Act 3 camp made me want to break my desk), and while some characters have a high degree of graphic fidelity, the game lacks a visual style (I have the same problems with the D:OS games). The pacing seems off and I think having Mind Flayers, Githyanki and Red Dragons show up in the darn intro sequence is a poor choice compared to the rags-to-riches storytelling that most IE games offered. Having said that, the Mind Flayers and especially the Githyanki culture are depicted very lame and not at all that different from the other races (but I suppose this fits the agenda). When I hit the level cap early in act 3 I lost most interest in whatever the game had to offer (since, unlike BG1/2 the game throws magic items at you like it ain't no thang and thus the game lacked any power progression the last 20 hours or so) and had to trudge my way to the final bossfight and was glad when I finally got done with it.
Again, to stress this point (probably made a lot in these last 689 pages), the writing fucking irked me in this game and convinced me that even Bethesda writes better games. At least Bethsoft knows (by now) they suck in that department while Larian pretends they can write epic fantasy. It's certainly more Twilight than Tolkien.
Again, to stress this point (probably made a lot in these last 689 pages), the writing fucking irked me in this game and convinced me that even Bethesda writes better games. At least Bethsoft knows (by now) they suck in that department while Larian pretends they can write epic fantasy. It's certainly more Twilight than Tolkien.
