Against my better judgement, ended up getting the game. So now i can bitch about it with full legitimacy.
Am about 8 hours in, saved the grove and killed most of the gobbos on the map (didn't even intend to, but between gobbos wanting me to touch feces and kiss their feet, i kinda accidentally ended up fighting the entire camp and murderhobboing everyone).
Pros:
-The game runs for me at all, am actually under spec but still able to put a few settings on medium and find the game pretty because i am not a graphics whore.
-Fine i admit it, the facial animations and expressions are good.
-Low level adventuring has been fun so far.
The bad and just general bitching:
-Everyone wants to have sex with me. And i sure af didn't incite it. Larian can't write romances for shit it seems, very little chase and effort required on your part. I'm starting to really agree with Roguey that bioware writers back in the day got too much shit, like poor Helpler and her "We have all sorts of girls, from innocent girl next door to raunchy let's have sex right now on the floor haha" (parapharased) quote has nothing on the companions here. The worst is i intentionally made a low charisma dude to avoid this problem, hoping the game's vaunted reactivity would take this into account. It did not, everyone seems to refer to my character as being uber hot. Granted having only 2 body options maybe ain't helping, guess everyone just agrees to put a paper bag over my pc's head.
-Kink stuff aplenty and some of it forced. The aforementioned feces touching? Yeah i had no choice but to dabble in it to some degree ¬¬ I suppose some smartass will say i could have metal gear solid my way into the goblin camp but i was doing fine relying on guile and subtlety to talk my way through and the game even misled me by offering an animal handling option to get an in with the guard by talking about his warg. Then i was locked into touching shit, whether that be my pc dabbing it on his face or WINKING and then tossing it. No option to back out of it or to attack, this was really a "dare you enter my magical forest of piss" moment. Then once inside met a disciple of pain and my companions were REALLY keen on my pc getting whipped, making me wish there was a "WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU ALL?" dialogue option.
-Related to that, the famed reactivity and a billion dialogue choices. Fuck you everyone who has been spreading these lies. Fuck you for EVER insulting bioware games and looking down upon them. To refresh peoples memories, i recently played both origins and inquisition, so believe me 100% when i say you don't have any more options or ways of answering people then you do in those games.
Though I am perfectly willing to believe there are a lot of racial and class choices. I wouldn't know because i picked a chad human fighter, no multiclass bs. So i haven't exactly seen any of those vaunted extra choices besides every once in a while having a fighter option which didn't even feel special *Sees a choke point* "CHOKEPOINTS FAVOR THE DEFENDER HUR DUR* NPC: "Wow mr fighter you are so good at fighting, we never thought about that :O". Yeah good thing i'm a fighter for that amazing fighter insight no one that isn't a fighter could ever hope to attain. Would have made more sense to lock these kinda options behind stats as i don't see why a barbarian with above average int couldn't come up with this conclusion also but oh no i forget, stats bad, which is why my char 8 fighter can become a bard any time he chooses.
Point being is without this gimmick and the writers enjoying your class/racial combo enough to provide more special snowflake choices, no you do not get any more ways of responding to events that you do in any other rpg. And you're just as often, if not more so completely forced into a very limited set of options and at the mercy of the writer's barely disguised fetishes. I do not want to hear anyone bad mouthing bioware games ever again when it comes to their writing or their simple paragon vs renegade dynamic and in inquisition i could get my pc to say some seriously badass things or good reasoning from time to time that i've yet to see in bg3 at all.
-Character creation is abysmal. But hey i can mix and match genitals :D Yeah i'm pretty sure i said this before already but actually being in the char create and having only 5 faces to choose from when i had more then a dozen for genitals really pissed me off. I was done with my character in 2 minutes, absolutely one of the worst char creators i have ever seen in an rpg, period.
