[Spoilers] Ending thoughts

[Ω Ewigkeit Ω]

Anyone else think that endings are kinda weak?
There are no ending slides or anything.
For example if you get good ending and your astarion is not turned into a higher vampire, he will just run away from the sun. Being unable to heal karlach and her return to avernus.
It seems like doing companion side-quests is not as engaging as you might think, as you will never see their consequences beyond the camp talk.
Most of the choices in act 3 are really dumb too. For example, I killed both zenithar and the guild, and Jaheira was really angry at that, saying that it will bear great consequences after the battle will end, but there are NONE! Nothing literally says "oh boohoo, no underdukes and city suffers!" Just same cut-scene of the city being rebuild.
If you betray Orpheus (In my case he was a mind-flayer) you just control the brain and nothing, 10 second cut-scene ending, no after-credits scene (Before you guys will try to say that it's perhaps a marvel thing etc, in good ending there is a post-credits scene with Withers)
Maybe it's just me, but all those old rpgs, and not old too (Pathfinder, I'm looking at you rn), made me expect at least some closure on endings. What of my char, who romanced Shadowheart? What's in their future?
This game is great, but act 3 and ending feels so rushed, that it's insane, couple with bugs and broken quests.
Sorry for rambling haha

[wei270]

yeah i feel now days every last act is rushed, same the pass two game, it seem they just can't keep spending the resourse they had in the earlier chapter that were very well done, but ended up taking too much resources and time.

[Ω Ewigkeit Ω]

Originally posted by wei270:

yeah i feel now days every last act is rushed, same the pass two game, it seem they just can't keep spending the resourse they had in the earlier chapter that were very well done, but ended up taking too much resources and time.

I really do like this game, but it the ending feels really incomplete, and I feel like if you try to criticize it, people will just say that "Game is so big, it would be impossible to include every outcome".
I remember that exaggerated news that BG3 had 17k endings, they corrected it by saying that this is an amount of outcomes, but I just can't fathom how can it be even close to reality.
Oh and I really hate the "real" identity of the emperor

[mods twist his balls]

Yeah the ending felt rushed and we didn't even get slides ala Fallout. Kethric had a whole tower while Gortash and Orin had a pretty weak sauce boss arena plus Act 3 is a bugfest. And the companions stop talking the second you finish their quest.

[Snapsh0t]

I agree that the endings feel short and/or incomplete. When you devote 60+ hours to a game, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect an ending that wraps things up.

As an example, I romanced Shadowheart and she only had one line in my ending - "Good thing I learned how to swim." Seriously? That's it?

I think this could be solved by having one last scene where you can walk around and talk to the remaining characters before the final cutscene.

[Ω Ewigkeit Ω]

Originally posted by Logan Paul fanboy:

Yeah the ending felt rushed and we didn't even get slides ala Fallout. Kethric had a whole tower while Gortash and Orin had a pretty weak sauce boss arena plus Act 3 is a bugfest. And the companions stop talking the second you finish their quest.

It's true yeah, on my tactical run, I killed Gortash in his throne room and it broke some of the quests (Example: steel factory in lower city). Completing companion quests make them into dummies that just sometimes react of other companion stuff

Originally posted by Mat:

I agree that the endings feel short and/or incomplete. When you devote 60+ hours to a game, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect an ending that wraps things up.

As an example, I romanced Shadowheart and she only had one line in my ending - "Good thing I learned how to swim." Seriously? That's it?

I think this could be solved by having one last scene where you can walk around and talk to the remaining characters before the final cutscene.

Yeah, it was sooooo underwhelming with shadowheart. I thought that Gale had more physical scenes (For example his platonic star-gazing scene is as big as Shadowheart swiming scene)
I feel like they should add like 5 minutes more to wrap up the story, but people will call me a troll for asking that

[Zero]

i litterally promised shadowheart the world and she and i didnt even get an ending conversation i feel so betrayed, all the choise and difference in the entire game ending with absolutly nothing in terms of payoff

[Desertedcake]

Originally posted by Zero:

i litterally promised shadowheart the world

Yeah, I reacted the same way. A one-liner and she walked away from the MC. Felt empty from seeing it end like that.

Originally posted by Logan Paul fanboy:

Yeah the ending felt rushed and we didn't even get slides ala Fallout

The 'fallout' slides would've been so much better. Even if it wasn't animated but a photo and narration story of each party member. Hopefully, Lurian does a DLC doing epilogues

[Bloomca]

I got a dialogue with Shadowheart, and I think we were "together" (to be completely honest, I just spent 1 night with her in Act 1 and did her story quest), where she is glad that we'll spend time together. Although you get a choice to ditch her.

I feel like the whole ending is rushed, from the moment you get 3 stones and after it's pretty weak. Were slides and narration ending added in D:OS2 later in Definitive Edition, or was it there from the start? You also chill with Malady and other crew members before properly "finishing" the game there, was a nice touch.

[Bloomca]

Originally posted by Zero:

i litterally promised shadowheart the world and she and i didnt even get an ending conversation i feel so betrayed, all the choise and difference in the entire game ending with absolutly nothing in terms of payoff

Hold up, you mean you promised her before the final battle? I didn't do any of that, and I got a dialogue before the credits, where she said it was the best sex of her life and I chose to stay together and she was excited. Or do you mean that specific exchange wasn't good enough?

[Gemris]

Yea, I felt so empty after. After all the choices you made, you dont even get to see a glimse into the future. Just give me a sketch with some concequences text and it will give the very needed closure. The act III is buggy and feels very rushed + we dont even get to play in the upper city at all. They should have taken that extra month it seems.

[Kurnauskis uwu]

I romanced Shadowheart and did every flag for them and did Astarion's personal story in co-op and neither of them had anything to say after I killed myself in front of them. And even if I didn't take that choice there was no cutscene or even a one liner.

[Settings]

The ending is weak because Larian didn't implement any of the endings. Lae'zel and Shadowheart get an ending, Astarion mostly does, but nothing and nobody else does because Larian wanted to rush the game out to beat Starfield. An otherwise amazing game is completely ruined because you can get 100-200 hours in and realize the narrative has no ending, it just stops and tells you "Good Job" before fading to black.

This game does not deserve it's praise until it's actually finished, a story heavy game with no ending is just bad storytelling.

[Settings]

Originally posted by Zero:

i litterally promised shadowheart the world and she and i didnt even get an ending conversation i feel so betrayed, all the choise and difference in the entire game ending with absolutly nothing in terms of payoff

Having a character call you their soul mate and then stare at your lifeless corpse like a bug-eyed moron is terrible writing. There are files that indicate more was supposed to happen, but Larian didn't bother implementing any of it because Starfield comes out in September.

[Conner]

so I romanced shadowheart however when the ending occurred the epilogue cutscene with her and my character talking did not occur. I wonder if it is bugged or if something else happened

[Squackles]

Originally posted by Mat:

As an example, I romanced Shadowheart and she only had one line in my ending - "Good thing I learned how to swim." Seriously? That's it?

Wait really? I wonder what side-quest teaches her how to swim. In mine she made a joke about not having learned to swim; and almost drowning at the end.