Act 3 fatigue?

[Dark New Moon]

I'll start by saying I am in love with this game. I'm just so done/fatigued with Act 3. So done and so fatigued that after around 30hrs in Act 3 I raced to the finish line and couldn't wait to get it over with - knowingly leaving more than a few threads loose, which I hate doing.

I usually get very immersed and play slowly and carefully - I sucked up everything Acts 1 and 2 had to offer.

There's then a significant disconnect between 'world is ending now, must gather stones' and 'run around and do everything BUT what you're being compelled to do' that it stopped feeling feasible to role-play after a certain point. The pacing felt messy and off - I was accruing quests without meaning to every time I turned a corner.

I was pleased overall with my ending and epilogue, but it still felt buggy and inconsistent. I ran a redeemed Durge playthrough which was super satisfying until I was told in a dream sequence that I killed Wyll and his loss weighed heavy... despite never killing him and having him show at my party afterwards.

[wtiger27]

I like Act 3. There is a ton of content in it. And some of the best gear and combat. 1600+ hrs in the game, 6 complete play runs. I don't consider Act 3 to be boring at all.

[Northofmost]

Act 3 is my favourite, the non-linear content makes you choose your way through it.

[Thorak]

I feel the same as you, I just killed an avatar of Tyr and now I am running around helping homeless people and doing errands? Act 3 is too "open world" for my taste. I liked how act 1 and act 2 feels more like you are steered toward a goal while in act 3 there should be a sense of emergency but it's just lost.

[phily]

Act 3 is just badly paced. It throws tons of ♥♥♥♥ at you, at once and you can just stumble across stuff constantly.

[Oonayah]

While I do enjoy Act 3 immensely, I also understand what you're saying. In my estimation, Act 3 would feel better for a lot of players if somehow the "Gather Your Allies" aspect was pushed as hard as "Get Netherstones and Win".

I'm not sure how that could have been accomplished because, in a blind playthrough, you don't find out until the final battle that your allies will provide you with a bunch of fun buffs and summons. Still, giving the player a heads up on the tangible benefit of those allies would have gone miles towards making the questing in Act 3 more meaningful and important.

[Dark New Moon]

Originally posted by Oonayah:

While I do enjoy Act 3 immensely, I also understand what you're saying. In my estimation, Act 3 would feel better for a lot of players if somehow the "Gather Your Allies" aspect was pushed as hard as "Get Netherstones and Win".

I'm not sure how that could have been accomplished because, in a blind playthrough, you don't find out until the final battle that your allies will provide you with a bunch of fun buffs and summons. Still, giving the player a heads up on the tangible benefit of those allies would have gone miles towards making the questing in Act 3 more meaningful and important.

That's a great idea - would have smoothed out some of the internal conflict for sure.

[M]

after reading this, I wanna thank you all for not spoilering act 3 to me and now I know, act 3 is kinda "open world". it could not be better. I thought, all of BG3 is kinda linear.

edit: right now, Im close to begin act 2. or I ought to be.

[Cass]

Originally posted by phily:

Act 3 is just badly paced. It throws tons of ♥♥♥♥ at you, at once and you can just stumble across stuff constantly.

Yeah this. It's really hard to pick an objective and not get sidetracked, or accidentally advance another quest instead.

[Kernest]

Originally posted by Thorak:

I feel the same as you, I just killed an avatar of Tyr

Wow, some serious hidden content that millions of others must've missed.

But to OP: Yeah, I get a bit of act 3 fatigue every time. I think part of it is because act 2 is set in a dead and mostly empty land and then you're hit in the face with all this vibrant colors and people, sounds and things to do everywhere.

It overwhelms you.

I just take a break and then start by doing one quest and before I know it I'm back in the swing of things and all of a sudden it's 2 in the morning already, again.

[Steel]

Originally posted by M:

after reading this, I wanna thank you all for not spoilering act 3 to me and now I know, act 3 is kinda "open world". it could not be better. I thought, all of BG3 is kinda linear.

edit: right now, Im close to begin act 2. or I ought to be.

It's less open world and more like a ton of quests packed very tightly together and it's hard to grasp how it's all structured, you just run into stuff all the time with zero breaks. It's a lot.

[Mike Garrison]

Act 3 has SO MUCH STUFF, but you don't actually have to do almost any of it. The only required bits are to kill Orin, kill or ally with Gortash, and kill or dominate the brain.

But people who feel the need to complete everything are going to struggle in Act 3.

Also, you stop getting that "level up" rush, which can make people feel like they are slogging around for no reason. (Because, kind of, they are! Really, why are you saving some kid from a hag or worrying about newspaper headlines or whatever when you could be saving or conquering the world?)

[Vox Maximus]

Act 3 is the best Act by far.

[belgix]

Act 3 is BIG and I felt that too. The big problem with it is (almost) nothing is interconnected in the city and the only purpose of doing quests is to empty your quest log. There is little to almost no suspense in this act.

[Mike Garrison]

Originally posted by belgix:

the only purpose of doing quests is to empty your quest log

You can save a child from becoming a hag. You can save something like 20 people from the Iron Throne. You can save people from being murdered by Bhaalists. You can rid the city of a vampire. You can rid the city of a mummy lord. You can rid the city of a parasitic Sharran temple. Etc.

You can do a lot of good things if you want, and isn't that more important than just "emptying your quest log"?

If you are role-playing a selfish jerk, then that's cool. Do so. But if you are role-playing a hero, you have lots of heroic stuff you can do.

[belgix]

Originally posted by Mike Garrison:

Originally posted by belgix:

the only purpose of doing quests is to empty your quest log

If you are role-playing a selfish jerk, then that's cool. Do so. But if you are role-playing a hero, you have lots of heroic stuff you can do.

I've done all of it so put me in the category of role-playing hero. My point is, and you miss it, for the quest you said where are the connections between them or to the main story. You can claim that the Bhaalists quest is related to Orin (if fact that one way to do Orin's quest) and the vampire quest is related to Astarion fair enough, but most of them (not all of them) are just quests that ends nowhere. It's just doing quests for doing quests.