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[Lorianus]

Act 1 is a DnD Campaign, Act 2 a more story focused version of Act 1 and all of a sudden Act 3 turns into a run 20 meters and get/update 25 quests and the game turns into a checklist at that point.
It doesnt help that the 2 main Villains of Act 3 are undercooked and lack all the charisma Ketheric had in Act 2.

 

[Raven117]

I thought it was better than the second.

As did I. I felt Act 2 was too claustrophobic.

I'll be flat out honest. I didn't fall in love with BG3. It has all the pieces of a game I would love, but… it just…. Didn't.

 

[bitbydeath]

I did a BG3 replay last month, and I gave up in Act 3. I hit the level cap with a bunch of side- and main quests left, and all of a sudden I had no desire to wrap anything else up.

Level caps cutting off early is easily the worst part of the game, there should be no cap at all.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

The amount of digital pussy and cock thrown at you in this game you'd have to be going out of your way trying to not fuck someone. Shadow heart is my waifu and I haven't once sullied my fat dick for anyone else. I was offended when the emperor wanted my sausage. Like bro you know I'm smashing this cleric snatch raw right?

I'm baffled also how people scream "woke" or in your face homosexuality in other games yet this game everyone is fucking gay and got a total pass.

I'm walking down a road randomly talk to a npc and he just HAS to tell me about him and his boyfriend. It isn't just the companions all being bisexual so the player has agency to smash anyone… it's just like everyone in this game is perma horny just for the sake of it. Like on halls of hope. Why is this fuck trying to bang me? BG why is this drow couple inbreeding and trying to fuck me? It's way too much.

I'll send you a body pillow of Shadow Heart so you can sleep with her in RL

I hope that Divinity is more horny than Baldur's Gate III

 

[Zacfoldor]

The amount of digital pussy and cock thrown at you in this game you'd have to be going out of your way trying to not fuck someone. Shadow heart is my waifu and I haven't once sullied my fat dick for anyone else. I was offended when the emperor wanted my sausage. Like bro you know I'm smashing this cleric snatch raw right?

I'm baffled also how people scream "woke" or in your face homosexuality in other games yet this game everyone is fucking gay and got a total pass.

I'm walking down a road randomly talk to a npc and he just HAS to tell me about him and his boyfriend. It isn't just the companions all being bisexual so the player has agency to smash anyone… it's just like everyone in this game is perma horny just for the sake of it. Like on halls of hope. Why is this fuck trying to bang me? BG why is this drow couple inbreeding and trying to fuck me? It's way too much.

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Like the title says this is a SLOG of an act. It just keeps going and going and not in a good way. This regressed into some Ubisoft map filled with way too much shit to do.

I'm trying to power through to the end and do all quests but it just keeps adding more quests and more map layers and dungeons… bro enough is enough. Make 4 acts ffs not dump it all in the end and fuck up what was a good paced game.

Am I the only one who thinks there is 2/3rds of a good game here and one that needs half its content cut ?

Act III was a bit of a letdown for me in some ways. The game is best in the first portions - it's front loaded, IMO. Great game regardless - funny I have been thinking about this game all day and considering to reinstall it.

 

[Paasei]

Considering about playing it. Sometimes I just need to try something out of my comfort zone. I did that with Expedition 33 and that turned out to me agreeing with the GOTY award.
Maybe Baller's Gate 3 will do the same?

 

[xrnzaaas]

I haven't finished the game, but isn't there a consensus that act 1 is the most polished one? Staying for so long in early access and making constant improvements seems to be a result of that. Problem is act 2 & 3 didn't get that opportunity to be modified based on mass feedback from the players.

 

[geary]

The issues with Act 3 is that it has to tie up many side quests, companion quests and also have some quests of its own. That's why it looks so packed and overwhelming.
I didnt had a problem with it. I finished the game after 165 hours and a thorough playthrough which i bailed out 2 times and came back after few weeks.

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Level caps cutting off early is easily the worst part of the game, there should be no cap at all.

They wrote companions with god like backgrounds but couldn't make an epic campaign.
Also Jaheira is level 8 for some reason.

 

[Nocty]

I'm playing it right now for the third time with entirely different companions in the party and it's amazing how different the game feels.

I chose to go underdark both other playthroughs so taking high mountain pass this time around it's still throwing entirely new content at me.

I haven't even touched dark urge yet, I hear that is even better.

 

[LectureMaster]

How do you one shot rapheal? I've beat the game many times so spoil away.

Sorry for the late bump.

I said in one turn not one shot, lol. There are numerous videos.

 

[Gekikara]

I played it around release and found act 3 to be very good but a step below acts 1 and especially 2 because of the shoddy performance alone. On a base PS5 I had insane frame drops, constant crashes and bugs galore in act 3 while everything prior had been fine performance-wise. Ignoring the performance my only real gripe was that I reached max level a little too early which stripped away that sweet anticipation for the next level-up. Earning XP was a core part of the experience (with the total amount of XP in the game being fine-tuned and finite) so the game absolutely lost some major juice once I hit max level.

To be fair you could easily flip that around to be positive by saying the game allowed you to go through most of act 3 with a finished build and really fuck shit up.

OPs complaint about the companions is 100% valid though. I don't care much for video game romances at the best of times but the way this game did it was stupid and funny as hell to me. Not only did seemingly every man, woman and otherwise sentient creature lust after my hideous monstrosity of a character, some of them (like the bear dude) had full-on delusional fantasies even if you never interacted with them. It did kinda take away from the overall quality of the characters to be honest.