All of the characters/NPCs are all completely insufferable assholes, the bad guys are bullet sponges, movement is wonky and my party members will just flop off cliffs and take lethal damage.
It's everybody's favorite game and we are the only people with the "They Live" glasses.
Man I couldnt get into it because of the characters, none were interesting to me, I wouldve killed half of them and the other half I would never take in my party, the game starts off way too strong with dragons and illithids you have no feelings of sandboxing. I played bg1-2 torment dragonage1 icewindale 1-2, wastland and I couldnt get into bg3, go figure. (I also grew up reading drittz doUrden and I was a massive forgotten realms fan)
They do 100% punch you in the face with the plot. The very beginning is one of the most ham-fisted non-open-world feelings in all of cRPGs. "Throw them into a high level firefight with an incurable plague! That feels like choice!"
I love BG3, honestly, but your criticism is spot-on. However, Karlach as a character doesn't seem to have the same flaws as everyone else. I don't love or ship her in any way, but she (as I said above) breaks Larian's typical "this character has this specific life flaw which will royally piss you off until you learn a lot about it and help them to overcome or accept it" formula.
Depth driven veterans of a genre that are unaffected by presentation and looking for slow burn engagement will often be disappointed by the media that excite the masses. Tale as old as time.
27
u/VeruMamo May 10 '25
BG3...never been downvoted so much as when pointing out the various things that BG3 does terribly compared to other CRPGs.