Baldur's Gate 3 is amazing, HOWEVER - 

I didn't know koalas had fingerprints similar to humans.

Orin and (to a lesser extent) Gortash have a lot more connection to Tav if you play as Dark Urge, which I suspect was how the game was originally designed to be played, but they made normal Tavs an option because they knew a lot of people wouldn't enjoy the gory, evil route.

Honestly, people who truly do love a game are usually the people who have the most valid and thought out complaints about those games. Playing it for hundreds of hours will make all the flaws really apparent after all.

''a buff golden retriever that doubles as the love of life'' aint that the truth

The broken or otherwise unrewarding quests in act 3 was probably my main complaint. In particular was one that you didn’t get due to an act 1 decision, but that should have rewarded me with a portrait of my character. Instead I ended up with a portrait of Minsc, and while I am a fervent supporter of his “swords for everyone” philosophy, my half-elf bard has the edge aesthetically speaking and in any case Minsc spent the entire time at camp.

I really enjoyed act 3, mostly because I was really invested in my companions and loved getting to complete their story lines

I like Wyll, I really do, but I agree with you. This might be unpopular, but maybe they should have left Halsin as an ally and focus more on Wylls story. There was a promise, that he gets more content and decisionmaking in patch 7, so there is hope. And the three chosen could have been really interesting, but Orin and Gortash don't get enough time. Gortash, the mind behind the Absolute plot, even can be bypassed completely, if you attack teh steelwatch factory before going to his coronation. I'm a big BG3 fan and love a lot about this game, but I wish, some of the storylines had gotten a bit more love. Like the Hearthflame sisters in the House of Hope: we never really find out, what happened, that overprotective Korrilla turned on her sister Hope. Those two are my personal pet peeves, because I like them and had wished to learn more about them.

The only reason to visit the circus is to meet the absolute gigachad of the entire game: Popper. I don't know why he isn't the main character, to be honest. I guess it'd just be too easy. You'd just rock up to the elder brain, offer it a treato, the brain refuses so Popper just casually one-shots it and then everyone gets a treato. I really liked Baldur's Gate's scale - I'm extremely tired of game cities just being 'a hub location with some vendors and a pub, where you get the quests and then fuck off back into the fields' - but for a bunch of Act III I wasn't actually sure what the main quest was. Squidward shows up to yammer at you about tadpoles (again) and then seems to want to shag? I like that the character stories all wrap up in act 3, it's cool, and how some of them are tied into the main plot - Lae'zel's most notably - there's a huge sense that you're making some significant decisions. But they're also huge bits of content that require a whole bunch of time and effort to figure out. I was just doing things that seemed to be related to other things - you just start weedwhacking in order to figure out where the actual path is. After 150 hours, I just wanted to finish the fucking thing and it seemed like there was another 50+ hours to go. It gets exhausting.

Yeah, Wyll suffers from a pretty last minute total rewrite that complete changes his character & motivations. He's almost played better as an origin character instead of a party member.

Don't you dare disappear, love your game/fantasy analysis!

Koalas also have smooth brains preventing them from developing high cognitive functions, like spatial awareness or object recognition, that many other similar animals have. For example: a koala cannot discerns eucalyptus leaves, its primary food source, unless it is on a tree branch. Meaning if you took a pile of eucalyptus leaves and gave it to the koala and it had no other food sources it would literally starve to death despite having a pile of its favourite food.

I personally like Wyll. He's the guy that puts all his problems on hold to help out others, and is one of the less "quirky" party members.

I've made 20+ characters since BG3 came out. Only one of them has made it past Rivington. Only 3 of them have made it TO Rivington. The game definitely loses something in that act . . . Act 1 feels like a bespoke national treasure, to be spoken of in hushed tones of reverence. Act 2 is . . . fine . . . basically a spooky DND campaign of ghosts and shadows and one evil lord. The Nightsong saga is an exception here, being a deeply moving romantic tragedy. Act 3 is like . . . here's 36 quests we came up with last night go go go go go

I feel like I’m in the minority, but I loved the chaotic mess of Act 3. Act 1 and 2 had pretty clear linear paths (granted you could easily get sidetracked) but Act 3 just opened up this whole world, busy with interesting people to talk to and tons of hidden nooks to explore. I loved getting lost in all of it, and I had only one bug that made me reload a save. Although, I did play the dark urge on my first playthrough and the connections to the main story line (particularly to Gortash and Orin) might have kept my character a little more grounded in the story context. My main complaint about the game is that no matter which character you select (Tav, Durge, Origin) you have to start the same way every single time. I wish there was some variety in how the tutorial/starting scenes played out that was based on the character or your background or something.

There's an NPC with a child in act 3 that you can speak to that is begging for money.... There was no option to give them money... I felt bad for the rest of that session 😔

The issue with Act 3 (and partly Act 2) is that the game would have needed another year of polishing. Obviously, that wasn't an option because at one point Larian had to make money with it. However, to be fair, Act 3 is like any other game out there with tons of completely irrelevant and confusing side-quests that we shouldn't be bothering with given the urgency of the overall (main) situation. The problem is that, in Act 1, BG3 has shown that it can do better than the other standard RPGs out there. So Act 3 comes a bit as a cold shower.

My biggest issue with act 3 is that the first two felt really well paced but then you get to three and it felt like everything was just thrown at you and you gotta just figure it out

I’ve played through acts 1 and 2 8 different times. ACT 3 twice. Says a lot.

In early access; Wyll originally had his eye taken out by the goblin, Spike, and made his pact with Mizora after that. And his quest was to rescue Mizora from start Act 1, they were together when they got abducted by the mindflayers. And in order to find out where they took her, Spike makes Wyll torture the prisoner. But apparently people complained, so they rewrote to the Wyll we have today. Who by the way, according to this post i read, only has about 6 hours of stuff vs Astarian who has about 12 hours vs the rest of the origin characters have about 8 hours. I am going off memory with that, but the person had added up all the content each of the origin characters get as party members, and Wyll got the least, while Astarian is the favourite. And no, despite being able to find out about the missing gur children in act 1 (yes, you can find out about them in act 1, as well as, astarian's role), none of that extra content Astarian gets, involved confronting him about this fact when you go and tell him about the monster hunter. It bothers me and I wanted complain. Edit; I do like Astarian. He's a great character. I just also think his favouritism is an issue when it comes to the game.

I beat BG3 recently and Act 3 issue is how fast you get to Level 12 and how fast you get the best gear for each class. By the start of the lower city you get to 12 and no soon later you get to Raphael's place to get insane gear. Then all non companion quests become kinda pointless. Unless you really care about being a complenist or care to close some side characters arc, act 3 can be insanely short yet so big. Also Gortash, Karlach and Wyll suffer from have very little time to shine. Despite act3 being so big..

Name a more memorable duo than Larian and disappointing final acts

Love BG3 and Act 3 my favorite part of the game. I also got lost and overwhelmed and remember just standing there and saying "Where do I start? What do I do?" I just started exploring and had so much fun. First two acts set the stage and act 3 the grand finale. I do agree there issues from a story stand point in act 3 but it never soured my enjoyment of the game. Anyways. Great video and points. Love your sense of humor and always look forward to a new video.

Act 1 is amazing, no notes. Act 2 is alright, just a bit fractured. Act 3 is a complete overloaded mess and also the reason so many players don't finish the game. This is a pattern that was also present in older Larian games.

''she does not step on you'' i mean, she does wises you to die, that half way there

You are really good at weaving together these stories. and your one liner explanations of things... overactive pizza oven, undead wanting working conditions... lol never lose that flair & flourish you have. also appreciate the badger. very nice.

I think the issue with act 3 steams from the fact that it was supposed to be split into actual two separate acts - lower and upper city! Cazador's palace was actually meant to be in said upper city area, which is why it's placement is currently so weird and just looks like a door in a wall. Because it wasn't planned. And the moment u get to the upper city its bc of the final fight and thats it.

Totally agree with this video and I say that as someone who's played this game for well over a thousand hours and who's favorite act is act 3. I love the act for the finality of the long experience that is this giant game, one that I think blesses us the ability to play with up to three friends. I've bought the game for almost half a dozen friends at this point just to show them the game through multiplayer. While I love act 3, it is also the most flawed and bloated part of a videogame in comparison to the rest of the game I think I've ever seen in a major AAA game release. The point you brought up about this not being an MMO was very cogent and act 3 definitely feels to this day unfinished in many ways. As a videogame however, I think the gameplay encounters in act 3 are some of the most fun and challenging in the game, which is why I tend to forgive things like Wyll being so underdeveloped and coming across as an afterthought in act 3.

I did know koalas have very similar thumbprints but its always nice to hear again.

Tbh i think every Larian game I've played has an undercooked Act 3, at least compared to the rest of the game. Games like Wasteland 2 fair better in mind because of the open world design it has and being able to access most quests in whatever order. Id argue BG3 isnt open world even if there is a lot of freedom in each acts' area.

i have done 3 playthroughs and i have never seen or gotten the Wavemother quest because the game makes you feel like if you don't go there immediately the duke will die. And thats also weird you go to speak to gortash and the duke is next to him but as soon as you leave the room the duke is in the prison

Far and away the funniest review of BG3. What's even better is that it's a funny review that hits the nail on the head. I loved listening to your telling of the searching for a "vet." I've been following your Twitch channel for more than 3.5 years. If I wasn't already following, this video would have made me want to. Wonderful video.

For statistics: I didn't read the thumbnail, but because I think I need glasses I liked to watch the playthrough-we-don't-talk-about-act-2. Even with the amount of bugs and issues you faced during the game, it was a complementary experience to mine. Let's see if the durge playthrough will have less howevers

BG3, and a lot of modern games like it, have a huge problem with urgency in their narratives. If you're actually _role-playing_ in this role-playing game, then what character with the slightest amount of common sense would ignore the dire, _universe-threatening_ stakes to go bother with some missing pigeons or a funny talking amulet? Surely any character, no matter how lol quirky they are, would understand the immediate need to take action if only to preserve their own life. I know its a thing we've come to expect from fantasy, but the ticking clock which the story _immediately_ sets up with the tadpole just kneecaps the roleplaying experience.

While it's not an excuse, by any means, I half wonder how much of the... Act 3-ness of Act 3 was a D&D-ism. By that I mean imagine doing what's possible to do in Baldur's Gate in actual tabletop; the DM will literally never be able to make every house or every quest interesting, and some of those quests will be unconnected or weird (largely because the DM had to make something up on the fly and got carried away, maybe; no I've never ever done that, nobody can prove anything). ALL THAT SAID, I don't disagree with you, and it's a video game -not- D&D so the same excuses don't hold the same weight, but ...in a strange way, as a forever DM, I kind of appreciate that? Is that weird? Maybe. Anyway, wonderful vid as ever, excellent points, keep 'em comin'!

As well as your very valid points my 2 main gripes with Act 3 were the entire Upper City being cut except for the run up to final battle. I think this caused way too much content to be crammed into Lower City. Also the boss battles with Gortash and Orin were massively underwhelming, both should have had an avatar of Bane and Bhaal phase like Myrkul.

I just hit 1k hours and I agree with pretty much everything you said, I usually start struggling in act3, I abandoned around 2 playthroughs as soon as I hit it because of the issues you mentioned. I love the fights there but getting to them can be really painful. Don't worry about criticizing this beloved game, we do it cause we care :) And good luck with the durge, without spoiling anything, it really feels like that's the canon Tav.

act 3 gets a lot of hate but i was genuinely so unfathomably disappointed by the ending, i had 700 hours in bg3 EA and thought it had the potential to easily be the best rpg of all time but the ending just soured and ruined all of that in such an instant the fact the game was advertised as choices mattering only for the ending to throw literally every choice youve made in the trash to present you with the binary choice of destroy or dont destroy the brain and have that pick between one of two endings was a mix of both seething rage and endless laughter at the undeniable hilariousness of it, YOU CAN KILL EVERY CHILD IN THE GAME AND STILL BE HERO OF BALDURS GATE.

You know what annoy me the most in act 3? The useless npcs the one that are there just to create the illusion of a population and you can't get rid of them, they pass through your companion during dialogues, and they for sure eat some of those sweet graphics that could be used, idk, to render the ENTIRE CITY. It really one of those thing that should be a button you can turn on and off and I don't understand how this is not already a thing.

I think the whole Szarr palace was unfinished and they pushed together a bunch of pieces. Like the spawn level felt like a lot of empty space around the rooms, and somehow I could hear the werewolves in the ballroom from down there? And is that the real Victoria or not? But the main rooms felt disjointed like how we enter feels like a back doorway like the real walkways around Moonrise and Last Light, but no front entryway? No grand opening to the Super Mysterious and Important ballroom up some sweeping flight of stairs with a dramatic chandelier? We just trot in through the servant's hallway and bam there we are. One doorway and we're in the study? It felt idk like a dollhouse, where only a few rooms actually work. And yeah the Lady Incognita stuff was apparently cut third act upper city content because the last hint where she could be is the scroll down in the crypt but even then there's nothing you can do on it. It really felt like they needed one more act, or to simplify the side quests so the main companion stories could be focused on, leading up to the final battle. (I'm also just salty that for how well Astarion's story was written the actual lead up to his fight felt a little shallow, going through the palace like give me one more fight please)

act 3 man, I gotta agree, especially if you are a compulsive "do everything"-er and therefore have to enter every single damn house. I actually just put the game down for a month or so at some point before going back and finishing. of course it was all fun, mostly, just so much of it without much plot progression, and reaching level 12 early into act 3 also meant little gameplay variety

"angry frog" "latent dommy mommy" "dracula's therapy starved cousin" "used car salesman" "vanilla flavour with a hero complex" "buff golden retriever who doubles as the love of my life" That alone deserves a like

Thumbnail read, commenting for helping out with the algorithm. Great video as always! Thank you! :)

Fantastic and hilarious summation of the game. BG3 went from a 10/10 in Act 1 to a 5/10 in Act 3 for me. Harsh? Probably? Unfairly harsh? Also, probably. Aside from the mess of unsatisfying content and overall overwhelming amount of things to do in Act 3, I encountered a bug that just whittled away at my enjoyment of the game over time. At least, I assume it was a bug and the game was not judging my for my decisions, or making every single character a prude. Very early on, Lae'zel jumped my bones. I let her. Then Shadowheart killed her. RIP. After this, not a single one of my companions would entertain the idea of romancing me. The Druid flirted with me a bit, but it never went anywhere. Gale and I had a nice friendship. Karlach? Not a whiff of a romantic dialogue option in any conversation with her. Astarion? Nothing. Shadowheart, nothing. I talked to everyone, every time I was at camp, waiting for a flirty dialogue option and they never appeared. The only characters who would have sex with me were squids or people I paid. Kinda felt like I missed out on a whole component of the game. I didn't even end up finishing the companions quests (except Karlach's, I kept holding out hope...), I was tired of all of it.

Act 3 isn't meant to be 100%'d Skipping content is a powerful decision in a game. Being able to do it without cheapening your experience empowers player choice.

Act 3 is incomplete due to the release of Starfield! They really should have let the game sit in the oven instead of trying to release it ahead of Starfield. Data miners found missing quests for Karlach, wyll and Minthara in the upper city as well as a map of Avernus. Swen openly said that the developers ran out of time when trying to make Jaheira romanceable. In reality, Balders Gate 3 needed to be released in December 2023 not August. Those 4 months could of helped Act 3 be what it needed to be.

I really love the game sooo much. But it feels bit hypocritical of the studio to criticize other studios for releasing incomplete games or releasing too many extra things to buy. But then say they will not make any additions after the next patch. I know i am probably misinterpretting it wrong. But i bought the game 3 times because i was supporting the company and then they say that it is done.

I love your channel and I never finished act 3, I just got choice paralysis and never moved forward haha. I'll finish it one day. I don't know, just commenting for engagement because you deserve it.

Your humour is magnificent. I love your honest analysis.

the emperor is undoubtedly my least favorite aspect of act 3. it kinda throws away the customizing your dream visitor, the twist that he's actually balduran doesnt feel earned or even interesting enough to be worth the retcon, and generally i dont think hes very well written.

Yes, I do enjoy your unhinged rants about the things you love the most. How could you tell?

I totally agree on Wyll's character: Every companion has realistic flaws we can sympathize with, except for Wyll. In early access, it felt like he had more contrast and a darker side (with his racism towards goblins or lying and deceiveing about his pact), which made him seem a bit hypocritical, since early-access-Wyll played up his hero-act more. Finished Wyll seems too humble and a bit superficial tbh. Feels like a lot of missed potential there.

I completely agree. I played through BG3 five times (actually 4.9 times, my one honour mode save file bugged out just before I went to fight the elder brain, so no gold dice for me) and every time I got to act 3 I did less and less stuff and for most of those playthroughs the technical performance was abysmal. I, like many others, was hoping for an act 3 expansion/refinement dlc one day, but that's almost certainly not happening. I am really going to try to be there for some of your dark urge streams, as I think playing that origin adds so much to the experience, but I'd also love to see a video on your thoughts of playing that character. And yes, I read the thumbnail text. Great video as always, Jinzee.

My biggest point of frustration is Karlach's storyline: there's no opportunity to even try to find solution to her engine.I mean it's not like there's a community of formerly enslaved gnome engineers who have experience in working on hellengines and who must be very grateful to us for saving them despite their obvious prepatch tendency to share singular suicidal brain cell. FUCKING GONDIANS. And meanwhile we have Gale who is handed the solution for his bomb in the chest via literal deus ex machina.

I did know that Koalas all had unique prints very similar to humans. Idk if people read the thumbnails though. Prolly not if they are on their phone, most likely if they are over 35 and on a monitor? This game was great. top 10 of my lifetime at least, and I've been an avid CRPG since the original Gold Box Pool of Radiance made my C64 floppy drive sing like a helicopter. The biggest flaw for me was the level cap of 12. Normally I would think that would be more than fine, but there is just so much bloody content in this game that hitting level 12 right after Act 2 with another 100 hours left to play is more than possible. 15 or 16 would have made a lot more sense to me, but I assume they just did not have time to balance level 7 and 8 spells into the game. Even if I would have been 100% fine with only having 5 or 6 spells from levels 7 and 8 to pick from...heck, I'd have been fine with additional lower level spells, more skills/feats and a stat raise, but I also know a ton of people would have been livid that they couldn't cast _"Limited Wish"_ on every boss thereafter. Still, with so much content you end up with people like myself putting 200+ hours into numerous starts, totaling over 700 hours who never end up finishing the game bc the lack of progression at the end gets too tedious as you don't just feel like you aren't progressing. You literally aren't. Yeah yeah, i could install a multi-class to level 20 mod but that's not the same and simply didn't fit the characters I tried to play. Hopefully that will be fixed once the official mod tools are released and I'll finally be able to finish what I started...3 times...starting 2 years before the game's official release date...stupid game. And darn Larian deciding that expansion packs are not worth their time bc they make the total package off the rip. Except with the level cap at 60% or so of the content XP available it kinda wasn't a _"whole package"_ for people like myself who do as much as they can. Still, though I may sound mad at what could be considered a waste of time, I really did love the time I spent with the game and do assume that I will do a full run at some point. When the stupid level cap is raised.

I agree with a lot of your points. - Act 1 does feel the longest, with a lot of different places to go, especially with the entire Underdark biome. - I really expected Act 2 to be longer and have a lot more places to go but it ended up feeling too "samey" and gloomy (which is fitting but still). - I felt overwhelmed by Act 3 too; the city is so massive that is hard to know where to go first. I honestly can't help but to feel that, despite being massive and having a lot of stuff in it, that Act 3 was somewhat rushed. The chaotic mess of the act is actually funny, and the kind of thing you see in JRPGs: "The world is about to be stuck by a meteor but let's breed and race chocobos." Still, the whole experience was amazing; I only wish there was a way to free Orpheus while still keeping The Emperor at our side.

Yeah I REALLY wanted to love Wyll but compare to the others, he opens up much less to your character, even if the relationship with him at maximum. Plus, you find out about most of his personal stuff by accident and he doesn't wanna talk about it much. With several companions, you see them struggling with their own lives and you can help them (or make them worse). But you not really see wyll emotional stuff until Act 3, when his father comes into the picture .... but act3 is the shortest and you are already through most of the game and hardly know anything about him. Plus he cant make his own decisions about ANYTHING even his own damn pact!!!!.... Hopefully he get much more dialogue in the last big patch and not just romance content bc he NEED TO TALK MORE about his emotions!

One of my biggest problems with Act three is that it's easy to get dumped the whole backstory of the emperor (and the Dark Urge) almost immediately. You walk into act three, learn the whole truth about Lae'zel, your 'dream guardian' is a mindflayer who ran knights of the shield, and the brain is a big bad elder brain you gotta kill or it subjugates the world. The opening thing where the Gith invade your camp/the astral prism feels a lot like an info-dump. Especially if you take the time crunch messages seriously, and immediately run into Orin who is impersonating people and immediately kidnaps someone you know, and then you meet Gortash who info-dumps more on you and sends Wyll's dad to death row. Those could have been spaced out more. Or made me feel less of an immediate time-crunch to save the world from the Elder Brain, instead a gradually mounting sense of pressure. (Maybe RIvington doesn't make you feel hurried, but Wyrm's rock does and the city is more frantic. Or have it tied to the rocks somehow.)

Why would you say that the Emperor placed the tadpole into Tav's brain? I've never found anything proving that. There is a book or something that says that the emperor should lead the Nautiloids that were searching for the artifact, but I always assumed they found the artifact, the Emperor entered it and got his free will back, then Shadowheart's group snatched it from the rest of the group, but got captured by another Nautiloid. I guess there could also be a timeline where the Emperor found it, entered it, found his free will returning, then Shadowheart's group tried to snatch it, got caught in the nautiloid, then the emperor left the prism, came up all the way to Lae'Zel and Tav, tadpoled them (as seen in the intro sequence) and went back to trapped Shadowheart to enter the prism (and give it to her), BUT 1. How would Shadowheart not know about the mindflayer in the prism then? (and why did she say she found it, rather than saying it was placed with her?) 2. Why did only Shadowheart survive and be put in the pod? If the group was attacking that Nautiloid I'd assume they'd put everybody in the pods. So I'd argue that Shadowheart's group fought, got decimated, fled (only Shadowheart survived) and then Shadowheart got abducted. 3. Why does the dead mindflayer in the Goblin Camp recognize you? I assumed the dead mindflayer in the Goblin Camp was the one who tadpoled you, as it has a memory of reaching into your pod. I guess there could also be the option that Shadowheart's group snatched it from the Githyanki, but then why do Gortash's notes say that they have to steal it from Queen Vlaakith and never mention Sharran agents? (at least I can't remember reading anything about the Absolute's forces wanting to steal it from the Sharrans) but even if this was how it went, then still some questions remain: 1. Did the emperor only find the prism after tadpoling Shadowheart? Did he then enter it without Shadowheart noticing? If yes, how? 2. Again, why does the dead Mindflayer in the Goblin Camp have a memory of opening your pod?

Agree with most/all the video. Ironic his name is Wyll and you can choose to free him of his contract. Ironic because he definitely lacks in the whole concept of "free will." My largest gripe with the game was the unfinished content for Karlach. Its painfully obvious she was meant to have a possible final upgrade in act 3 if you manage to keep Dammon alive and he shows up in the city. We even get a special "enriched infernal iron" in act 3, hints of Karlach's engine being a prototype for the Steelwatch, etc. Some combination of those efforts should have resulted in a heroic solution for her. My secondary issue with the game is I felt there weren't enough options to give platonic hugs or aid to all the people suffering through... *gestures to everything* Okay, Shadowheart and Astarion may not have accepted hugs when they needed them most but Gale could have used one when Elminster first showed his mug. I hated I couldn't give food to the starving kid and his mom, I have 6k+ camp supplies but I can't share? And why couldn't I adopt a cat of my own to be in camp? Grub doesn't count, Grub is Yenna's and doesn't want to be pet. Malta would have been a good option. In conclusion... hugs... needed more options for hugs.

Honestly idk what happened but the illusion of bg3 shattered on my second playthrough, and I never recovered. I understand that you love the game despite the criticism you gave, but at this point, I disagree (and it breaks my heart). On my second playthough I started making things slightly in reverse (like killing the Ch'r'ai without speaking to him, or leaving shadowheart at camp when I went to the shadowfell) and everything broke. The narrative stops making sense to the point that I wonder if it was worth it, to give this impression to "freedom of choice" when in reality the only freedom you have is to kill quest npc's only to lose out on their content and that's mostly it. The promise of this "huge reactive incredible piece of media" is just a lie, and that saddends me a lot. Gameplay is fun tho :)

Doesn't make Witcher content because of dumb fan backlash then moves on to say anything negative at all about BG3.. hmm...

I too love Baldur’s Gate 3 in terms of its gameplay, dungeons and dragons themes, story and characters (favorites-Shadowheart, Astarion, Karlach, Gale). But the game kind of lost a lot of steam and hype in act 3. The story kind of stops for a bit as a lot of quests are all over the place, there are difficulty spikes everywhere and none of the villains in that act are engaging. Baldur’s Gate itself is fun to explore and get involved in a lot of activities, but some of the quests, including the submarine one, were really rage inducing.

I think it's absolutely ridiculous when people complain that the game doesn't railroad them into finishing the main quest and allows them to do side quests with less meaning than the main quest. If you want to go straight through and just do the main quest, you can do that! You don't have to do side quests if you don't want to. Some of us like doing the side quests. Stop whining.

They never got Wyll right IMO, and its' a crying shame. There was the basis for a really interesting character there, but they never managed to develop it coherently. My guess is that too many people got involved in the creative process. Too many cooks spoiling the proverbial broth. Probably someone higher up the chain dictating that Wyll had to be a "good" character because the game needed some "good" characters. And so the original creative inspiration was blocked. And eventually lost. Wyll is a bundle of contradictions. The game introduces him as this dashing, charismatic folk hero with a dark secret - but that isn't how Wyll presents. We discover that he has all sorts of baggage from the past - but none of that baggage leads to any complexity or layering in his character. He's a warlock, but he doesn't experience the pull of the dark side - despite the fact that everything is set up perfectly for it.We have the resentment against his father, the lure of power... we could even have had some sexual tension with Mizora... but none of this is explored. Wyll is just good and noble. I can't see the coherence of the creative thought process here. What is the point of establishing all the elements for a really interesting character arc only to make nothing out of them?

BG3 killed its antagonist and, with him, its plot at the end of Act 2. BG3 as a whole is visibly unfinished despite years in early access. The praise heaped on it is largely derived from the fact that it cleared a very low bar of quality in RPGs. It's a 7/10 game.

We don’t know that the Emporer infected us. It could have very well been the dying Mind Flayer in Act 1

I agree with everything. Act 3 makes me rage quit so often. SO OFTEN.

Speaking of D&D related things, I've never personally played it but plan on getting the revised core rule books later this year and wanted to ask if you had any advice for a newbie like me.

Im not gonna like as Rouge i enjoyed breaking in houses and for sure not stealing anything!

Yea, I have brain worms too. I wanna watch this!! I haven't played it yet though!!

what aggravates me about the game’s lack of attention to wyll is the lack of allowance towards showing vulnerability. he is a character that goes through A LOT, and a key part of his reception to certain events is not dwelling on his own feelings and instead disregarding how he feels just to focus on his goal. that in of itself is not bad, because it gives a lot of insight to how he’s been coping with the events of his life (since he was SEVENTEEN mind you). but when you consider just how much he goes through, there should be that moment where he can just air everything out, at least once. every character at some point in the story has their moment of vulnerability - even jahiera, minthara, and minsc are able to reflect and show an emotional side to them. the closest you get to wyll really feeling what has happened to him is wyll trying not to let his voice waver while talking about his father. this, alongside really questionable aspects of the game, make his lack of reactivity all the more reason as to why bad things happen and continue happening to wyll, because if he isn’t allowed to dwell on it and pushed to move on, it teaches the player to as well. it’s so frustrating. this and the fact that you technically don’t even need wyll to find ansur and complete that quest. even though it’s test MADE for someone like wyll, you can honestly just do it without him and there aren’t any consequences for that??? LIKE HUH???

NO! No howevers. Just purge act 3 from your memories as I did.

"Brain worms" eh? You should probably find a cure

I know what you are saying, the characters felt disconnected, there is no long story

Act 1 & 2 I was smiling the entire time and constantly saying this is gonna be best game i ever played. But when Act 3 came it was such a disappointment that it soured me on the game entirely.

i can never side with nere because he sounds like the teenager krusty burger employee in simpsons

I don't think the text on ur thumbnail is that small, it was big enough that I clicked the video even tho I know the video is about BG3 and not koalas XD

Went from 90 fps in act 1 and 2 to barely 30 in act 3 its crazy

you know because of baldurs gate 3 and their lack of accessibility i am now used to leaning forward to read small text ((like in your thumbnail) (just wanted to mention this because i regret buying the game)

I'm not gonna watch because of spoilers but I love ya and I love your videos. I'll come back when I'm done

must be one of those rare act 3 is the best and its not close people. best encounters ✅best exploration ✅ best side quests and the best gear ✅ sure at max level the game becomes bordeline childsplay and especially easy with fireworks to even oneshot the endboss on honour mode or how big and massive filled to the brim with content the act is....

Only big problem ACT3 has is that it's overwhelming tbh, otherwise a lot of the best encounters in the game are in the ACT3, although I have to say I was really disappointed by the finale on release, but patches improved that and maybe the new patch coming this fall will further improve the epilogue. Otherwise, people are really exaggerating ACT3 problems. The one BIG PROBLEM BG3 has for me is the lack of customizable Origins like Durge. I swear they should've forgone making the companions playable and instead gave you a couple customer Origins like Durge, similar to Dragon Age Origins, because this REALLY adds to the experience when your character is not just a blank slate who feels like they have just appeared into the world yesterday, instead they are written into the story and have people who know them and places that matter to them and have actual motivations which are validated and explored in the actual gameplay and story of the game, instead of everything just happening in your head. Imagine if you had a custom Origin of Bauldurs Gate noble and you learned that your family is now somehow involved with Gortash's scheme and you gotta solve that. That would really give you a lot of reason to care about Gortash personally aside from the whole end of the world and squid for brains thing. Huge missed opportunity there.

Thank you for reminding me I need to get bread at the store and start a new BG3 save to abandon after act 2!

The Drak Urge have a history with Gortash and Orin so there will be a difference in your playthrough in act 3

Jinzee, I did NOT check those houses.. Gortashes' what? Gonna have to play act 3 again AHAHAH also, did you romance anyone? 👀

Not discussing flaws because the rest was good enough? That sounds just silly, how would anyone ever improve? And yes, Wyll is stupid: "Reading the fine print? I don't have time for that". It's soon time for dark urge? I need to hurry up with that one then.

It was super cool to recognize you in the recent skywind trailer

this video was exactly what i feel most modern gaming analysis videos lack. Which is a great balance of humor and criticism, really enjoyed this and it inspired me to be a better creator

Yeah, I agree with so much of this. Especially how Act 3 feels somehow both over-filled with crap, but also unfinished at the same time. They cut so much, including the last third of Karlach's personal quest, and left in so much stuff that they could have cut and we wouldn't have lost anything important at all.

Jinzee is so damn superb in these videos. Their content is absolutely, incredibly captivating. This was a fantastic video, I needed a good laugh, and this gave me a hundred reasons to smile. Thank you, PB

You explained all of my complaints PERFECTLY. Great video, excited to see more!

I really like how big Baldur’s Gate is, but I do agree that a lot of the quests were unsatisfying and felt unfinished. The Gondians sucked. We didn’t get to see Gale talk to Mystra the second time. There was no justice for the fireworks, you just murdered them.

i personally enjoyed the political part of act 3, like siding with gortash to avoid the steel watchers and target orin first, and i enjoy doing the random side quests and just figuring out more about the game. plus act 3 is when you can finally tie up all your companion’s stories (i love the companions). also i think orin is much more relevant in a durge play through but i totally agree act 1 and 2 are so much more cohesive and developed, i think larian actually rushed act 3 sadly. can only imagine how much cleaner it would’ve been

The reveal that dreamvisitor is some mindflayer called the emperor is where it went downhill. Sadly this comes right after the amazing kethric finale.

I DID know about the koala facts. The prints are so similar that sometimes koala handprints mess with crime scene investigations in Australia

Act 1 definitely benefited from early access and player feedback

I missed your content. So much. But i'd rather have this over you being burnt out and unwell every week/month. Had a load of fun for 20 or so minutes. Thank you. Have a great day.

1. I read the thumbnail bc i was curious why there is so much text 2. Your intro gave me witcher2 jumpscare

I hate city settings in RPGs. Act 3 never stood a chance.