Why Act 3 feels unfinished rushed mess ?

[Nospel]

Act 3 for me is the worst part of the game , these unfinished quests with companions and some major characters just left with no conclusion , u put so much effort to get them to Act 3 and then nothing , u see them once and have one dialog and thats it ... U can see and feel so much cut content in Act 3. Lets hope after patch 6 and all these hotfixes modding community will go crazy and make act 3 better :)

[alanc9]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย The Sylvan Learning Center:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย alanc9:

Huh? Act 3 isn't short. Maybe the crit path is, but enlarging that would make the pacing worse, not better.

oh you didnt understand my post :benny:

I did assume compressed meant compressed, yes

[Gorem]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย The Sylvan Learning Center:

basically they screwed up the pacing of act 2 and had to compress/rush the rest of the game

They couldn't really change act 2 much based on well, how act 2 is. You can't really add more to it besides indoor area's because everything is very focused there is not much wiggle room to fit in some of the things act 3 has.

The pacing is honestly good because of the focus, act 3 just needed more focus, but that's why I feel that the game should have had 4 acts. Cutting act 3 in half would solve the compression act 3 has with just so many things going on all at once as there are so many plot lines that act 3 has by itself. This would require making the level cap higher probably but honestly you hit the max level early in act 3 already and the act already throws the games best items at you at a constant rate.

Though that's for another thread, as really the game stops being balanced the moment you hit level 5 as after that, every fight even on honor mode is trivial.

[The Sylvan Learning Center]

Um they could do a lot of things with act 2, and with any act. It's their fictional game.

[[TKC]olT3lo]

The final battle was not good. Once the portal opens and you have some of your team in the portal, and others outside the portal, the way the game keeps switching between the two was horrible and a tad embarrassing. Needs to be reworked.

[King Ballsmear]

Act 3 is completely unfinished and uncared about like all Larian games.
Even Act 2 has some horrible inconsistencies like Jaheria knowing about your artifact even if you never mention it to her.

[Яeplicant]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย King Ballsmear:

Act 3 is completely unfinished and uncared about like all Larian games.
Even Act 2 has some horrible inconsistencies like Jaheria knowing about your artifact even if you never mention it to her.

Keep in mind, she's a Harper. It would be even weirder, if she didn't knew about it at all.

[mitchincredible]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Nospel:

Act 3 for me is the worst part of the game , these unfinished quests with companions and some major characters just left with no conclusion , u put so much effort to get them to Act 3 and then nothing , u see them once and have one dialog and thats it ... U can see and feel so much cut content in Act 3. Lets hope after patch 6 and all these hotfixes modding community will go crazy and make act 3 better :)

I think because this is such a long game and Act 3 has so many 'ultimate endings' to quests - it feels like it is rushed when you really need to look at the overall game and think about the quests you've been on leading up to Act 3.

[Woke Buster]

Because it is. And yes, no matter how badly they rush it, there will be people who are going to like it no matter what. Also, if there is a woke agenda present, activists will defend the game 24/7 zealously.

[Panzerbjorne39]

The fact that there’s no mention at all of Dammon or the Gondians trying to fix karlachs heart and have some closure there really ruined her whole quest line for me. Happy ending for her or not, it’s clearly botched by them cutting content at the last minute. And it was at the last moment because just three weeks before release, Swen was talking about it. Act 3 is jam packed with content. A lot of it just feels like a grind. The game is so long I think a lot of people get burnt out and then overwhelmed by it by the time they get to the city, The whole thing has left me with a damaged view of Larian and Swen in general because it’s very clear they dedicated the bulk of their time and resources into act 1 to get good reviews from media and casuals and then rushed the rest of it. It’s a shady way to make games.

[ShadowBastard69]

ACT 3 is definitely less polished that the other 2. really hoping the modding community picks up the slack and adds addition act/s and higher character level.

[Revan619]

BG3 is very front loaded. Acts 2 and 3 are very rushed. Incomplete by comparison. It makes the overall game feel very unfinished

[woops]

Act 3 feels bad because paradoxically it feels like it's much more on rails than act 1 and act 2 despite having a decent amount of content. The moment you get to act 3 you know exactly what you have to do: beat the two remaining bad guys and then you quickly realize that the decision making was all fake, you couldn't really ally with them even though the game acts as if you could. All the supposed haggling and trying to make deals with one or the other are total tease and not backed by content. The disappointment was huge even though I would have never allied with them but it destroyed my immersion. I could see that it was never an option and it cheapened the game to me because suddenly I thought that the rest of the game so far was probably all lies too and I never truly could have influenced anything. Then the next disappointment was that act 3 is just the city. It's not Baldurs Gate + the surrounding land and districts and various quests leading outside to the land. Nah it's just the city and sewers with a few areas that have a loading screen. Worst of all, weirdly it never felt like a city either. Every street felt like it was a tunnel. Somehow BG2 managed to create a far better feeling because I remember having a temple district, and other areas like that.

I'll give one example, remember the mage tower in the city? It felt like it was such an obvious questing area with a golem guard or magical walls at the back. It was far too obvious that you are able to get in there somehow. I want real discoverability, not a flashing neon sign that says "this is one of the content areas here, complete it please"

It began like that from the very start when the second you enter the city, you could go to one of those robot guards and it would tell you that they are evil and you need to go to the evil guy who invites you in. Is this really how a real villain would act? why would he not just have a group of masked people try and assassinate you? or outright kill you? It all felt so fake. Act 1 + 2 didn't have this problem.

[larhtas]

Act 3 feels amazing.
I’ve never seen a better act in my entire life.

[Maj. Grumpy]

Love Act 3, my favorite Act.

[The Sylvan Learning Center]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย larhtas:

Act 3 feels amazing.
I’ve never seen a better act in my entire life.

Yes you have.