The City of Baldurs Gate 3 is overwhelming.

[Konahrik Wulfgar]

I've seen many people even the Twitch streamer Cohhcarnage who I do follow, say that the city is very underwhelming and less to do than other acts.

Honestly from experiencing it and still progressing through, it's more overwhelming than Act 1 and 2, to me it feels more interaction than Act 2, Act 2 felt more rushed. Maybe some people just rushed to do end boss and was like, that's it? I'm exploring it all and it's just so much, been there for a good few hours, now today I feel as if I've been in the city doing a whole bunch of things for another 4 hours and still haven't completed some side quests.

Basically I'm saying, the city is not underwhelming and has equal or more content than Act 2.

[M.A.C.H.I.N.E.]

Agree, I really like Act 3

[pezenwever]

Obviously there's a lot of gamers who rush it without realising this. Sadly "some" of them are also pretty whiny and poor in the self reflection departement.
Doing all the quests, talking to random npcs and reading some books should take you +100 hours.

[Konahrik Wulfgar]

Originally posted by pezenwever:

Obviously there's a lot of gamers who rush it without realising this. Sadly "some" of them are also pretty whiny and poor in the self reflection departement.
Doing all the quests, talking to random npcs and reading some books should take you +100 hours.

And doing side quests for npc isn't some normal fetch quest either its literally a story within a story that even your pary members will add on to it.

[✙205🍉🐆→]

Athkatla>Baldur's Gate

[Konahrik Wulfgar]

Originally posted by ✙205🍉🐆→:

Athkatla>Baldur's Gate

We are talking about the location in baldurs gate 3 not bd2.

[Argonaut]

Half the content are quests that are lazily tied to one another and the other half is reoccurring characters with nonsensical quests. If you go to the Iron Throne you auto solve 4 quests while the Lorroakan plotline ends on a wet fart and a boring character.

The city is also small and if you are mildly competent at making a character nothing in Act 3 is going to challenge your party in the least.

Then there's the pandering with legacy characters that got completely destroyed by talentless writers and WotC idiocy.

[Konahrik Wulfgar]

Originally posted by Argonaut:

Half the content are quests that are lazily tied to one another and the other half is reoccurring characters with nonsensical quests. If you go to the Iron Throne you auto solve 4 quests while the Lorroakan plotline ends on a wet fart and a boring character.

The city is also small and if you are mildly competent at making a character nothing in Act 3 is going to challenge your party in the least.

Then there's the pandering with legacy characters that got completely destroyed by talentless writers and WotC idiocy.

Sounds like you just dislike the game cause it's not Half Life 3 type of hype. All I can say with that negative attitude go back to Destiny 2 for that "glamorous" writing and voice acting

[xposethedarkside]

I got lost for hours and hours in Baldurs Gate, just roaming around seeing what I could turn up. Just the sewers alone I probably spend a good 5 or 6 hours in.
I mean I could have just sigil'd myself to my quest locations and probably just rushed through it, but I found a lot of interesting stuff(including one unbelievably busted staff that made spell slots a thing of the past) by just wandering around and seeing what trouble I could get myself into.

[Konahrik Wulfgar]

Originally posted by xposethedarkside:

I got lost for hours and hours in Baldurs Gate, just roaming around seeing what I could turn up. Just the sewers alone I probably spend a good 5 or 6 hours in.
I mean I could have just sigil'd myself to my quest locations and probably just rushed through it, but I found a lot of interesting stuff(including one unbelievably busted staff that made spell slots a thing of the past) by just wandering around and seeing what trouble I could get myself into.

Exactly it's so much! People trash talking this act haven't done anything except beat the game

[Beast of War]

It is very important to understand Act 3 can be empty ( when you rushed and skipped content ) and very full ( doing all possible quests in Act 1 & 2 ) as a lot of quest continue into Act 3.

So when you skipped or ignored Act 1 & 2 content, quest giver inhabitants in the city are simply not there. Houses will be empty or have placeholder inhabitants that give no quests.

A good example is the well in Rivington. For 2 playthroughs there was an empty grotto down there with door controlled by a steering wheel lever to get out. That was because i ignored the Moonrise gnomes or had them killed by accident. 3rd playthorugh i made sure they lived to reach BG and i found a whole base and a vendor down there, that absolutely was not there when the gnomes did not reach BG.

And such is the complete Act 3 like......only filled with content, if you didn't skip, ignore, kill quest givers or get quest givers killed.

So it is pretty sure to say those YTers are rushing fools with quick judgements if they find an empty Act 3.

[✙205🍉🐆→]

Originally posted by Beast of War:

It is very important to understand Act 3 can be empty ( when you rushed and skipped content ) and very full ( doing all possible quests in Act 1 & 2 ) as a lot of quest continue into Act 3.

So when you skipped them or ignored them, they are simply not there. Houses will be empty or have placeholder inhabitants that give no quests.

I good example is the well in Rivington. For 2 playthroughs there was an empty grotto down there with door controlled by a steering wheel lever to get out. That was because i ignored the Moonrise gnomes or had them killed by accident. 3rd playthorugh i made sure they lived to reach BG and i found a whole base down there, that absolutely was not there when the gnomes did not reach BG.

And such is the complete Act 3 like......only filled with content, if you didn't skip, kill or get quest givers killed.

If you play as evil or dark urge, you are artificially limited in quests without offering anything in return, only the pleasure of destructive actions

[zacharyb]

I could understand if they thought the size was underwhelming, but content wise it's pretty packed. A majority of the buildings are related to quests or at least have something going on with them through notes and such.

Tbh if anything Act 2 seemed like it had the least content wise.

I kinda wonder if a lot people were just starting to get exhausted by Act 3 because of how long the game could be so Act 3 didn't seem as good to them.

[Beast of War]

Originally posted by ✙205🍉🐆→:

If you play as evil or dark urge, you are artificially limited in quests without offering anything in return, only the pleasure of destructive actions

Been there did that......while you are partly right you still have choices to follow the evil path or turn good. All choices have consequences ofc.

[DeMasked]

Act 3 is condensed when it comes to space to traverse but it still has a ton of content to explore and discover.

If Baldur's Gate was far more spread out to the extent of Act 1 or Act 2 it wouldn't feel like a busy city imo.

[xposethedarkside]

Originally posted by DamoclesTV:

Originally posted by xposethedarkside:

I got lost for hours and hours in Baldurs Gate, just roaming around seeing what I could turn up. Just the sewers alone I probably spend a good 5 or 6 hours in.
I mean I could have just sigil'd myself to my quest locations and probably just rushed through it, but I found a lot of interesting stuff(including one unbelievably busted staff that made spell slots a thing of the past) by just wandering around and seeing what trouble I could get myself into.

Exactly it's so much! People trash talking this act haven't done anything except beat the game

Yea, my thought when I got there was, ok, I can see all my quest markers on the map, or thereabouts since I hadn't uncovered the maps yet. But, they're there, they're not going anywhere, il get to them when I get to them. First I want to wander around and just turn over every stone, talk to everybody and see what turns up, and lots of stuff did. I found a shop with a lot of nicer clothes than the ones I'd seen earlier, and got a very nice dress for Shadowheart, and a spiffy shirt with ruffles for Astarion.

But it ended up leading me into a whole new quest line where I was helping to solve a series of murders, just because I wandered into a shop.

That kind of thing happened over and over again. You just gotta look.