So, many dozens of hours into the game, I started to feel tired. Very tired. I had similar feeling playing DOS2, Pathfinder Kingmaker and Pathfinder WOTR. I am not sure if it's due to my age (41) or due to the game lenght/ pace. It's a strange trend, the game feels HUGE, and at the same time it's slow.
I'm in the middle of act 3 now, and since we found out about the game cut content, I feel more and more disappointed. You can see the holes, the fractures and the patchwork they had to do, to keep Act 3 barely working. Sometimes I can barely play, cos my framerate goes to single digits. It's BAD. There are somethings that bothers me like hell, and I miss from more recent games. At the same time, some things are high quality, plot is very good and, in general, the game is solid.
Some things I don't like:
- Why there is no world map? Its hard to understand where we are, according to the game. This is a big departure from the old Baldur's Gate and also from recent crpgs, like Pathfinder. You cannot go back to previous areas, you cannot go wherever you want, and the game is heavily railroaded. There is just one path, and you have to go there in a very particular order.
- Itemization is meh and not very consistent. There are very few unique items, and the itemization, as a whole, favors melee attacks.
- UI, specially the character sheet is unacceptable. After Pathfinder, or, god, even Pillars of Eternity, the character sheet should be much better.
- Ilythid is horny and wants to fuck
- Cut content. Fuck, the game barely stands after act 2.
