RPGs are an interactive genre. If you don't like one branch the story can take, why go that way?
You misunderstood that part. It's not that only Illithids can use the Netherstones, it's just that when you're going up against an Elder Brain, only an Illithid can even begin to have hopes of fighting against it - though how that makes sense, especially since 99.9% of Mind Flayers tend to be enthralled by an Elder Brain when in their vicinity, I have no idea.
Yes, but the difficulty check was 99, so your 20 didn't count for shit.
By this point it's pretty obvious that most devs in the capacity to do something like BG3 will try to ride the wave of its work on animations, wacky romances and other stuff. I hope I'm wrong but I don't see Bioware implementing immersive sim level design for their future games.
If you wanted proof that the game is woke, this is it, more than the bear stuff and everything else.
Who really cares what Bioware copies? Everyone knows that whatever they do will most likely end up in shit.
Verticality in BG3 suffers from a deficiency of the game engine that limits creatures to standing on surfaces; flight, levitation, misty step, and other abilities serve only to move from one surface to another, akin to jumping (which is, of course, quite useful). Solasta, by contrast, permits actual flight, with creatures/PCs/NPCs altering their distance from the ground below them, and even allows wall-crawling for some creatures (and PCs/NPCs via a particular magic spell).
You're not forcing me to do anything I haven't already done.
Raph is too much of a mustache twirler to be a good main villain. He doesn't actually cause the player any obvious harm for most of the game. He's just evil and has selfish ambitions in the long-term.
