Act 3 can kind of go to hell.

[Gearwar]

Look, aside from the weird glitches, I am having a hard time getting into it. Almost all the side activities end up in everyone attacking your party and after you kill em its over. Or they do not and then they just give some phony one line and its over too ( githyanki egg quest for example).

Then you have the main quests in act 3, which are infuriating. If you just follow the main objective head on, you miss a ton of side content that isn't even on the map. So if you do end up hanging back and waiting how it plays out (and by that i mean, explore the whole map of act 3) you get impossible choices... literally. And the choices that make you lose said content are basically thrown at you right at the start of act 3.

I am at the foundry and I am still trying to figure out a way to explore a certain prison and i have wasted atleast 3 hours now trying to get to it without missing half of it. I do not even care about any outcome at this point, i just wanna see the thing.

Its ♥♥♥♥ like this why this game, as good as it is, should never be GOTY. Tears of the Kingdom all the way. Pathfinder wrath of the righteous is better than this too.

[butbka]

We have dozens of topics why BG3 doesn't deserve GOTY. Why we need one more clown?

[Gearwar]

Originally posted by butbka:

We have dozens of topics why BG3 doesn't deserve GOTY. Why we need one more clown?

I like to entertain, hence why i got into the clown business.. and if you think my rant was about the game winning GOTY you really should join my circus

[Rommel]

Originally posted by butbka:

We have dozens of topics why BG3 doesn't deserve GOTY. Why we need one more clown?

He's just trolling hoping to get a ton of rewards like the other trolls....
Surprise people still can't figure that out lol.

[butbka]

Originally posted by Gearwar:

Originally posted by butbka:

We have dozens of topics why BG3 doesn't deserve GOTY. Why we need one more clown?

I like to entertain, hence why i got into the clown business.. and if you think my rant was about the game winning GOTY you really should join my circus

Good clown should have original tricks. At least one. You are boring.

[Gearwar]

So everyone just gonna ignore the issue i brought forward, focusing on that GOTY thing?

Act 3 is still a complete mess.

[butbka]

Originally posted by Gearwar:

So everyone just gonna ignore the issue i brought forward, focusing on that GOTY thing?

Act 3 is still a complete mess.

Still very old trick. Try again.

[pascal.difolco]

Act3 starts messy, with too many quests and things happening every 20 steps, and I didn't like it much at first
But after some time it kinda really focus towards the game end events and stuff and became quite more engaging and fun to me
I also never had noticeable bugs or issues in my 40 hours Act3 playtime...

[Kaisha]

I generally agree. Both Act 1 and 2 had a clear progression to them. You were working toward an endgoal, even if hitting all sorts of side quests in between. In Act 3 the 'end goal' is pretty much just 'end the game'. None of the side quests really matter all that much, all the great gear is so OP builds and even classes stop mattering, and of course the ending of Act 3 is really a let down.

Add that to the poor performance, bugs, and incomplete quests and storylines, and yeah... act 3 wasn't great.

[Revenant]

Originally posted by Gearwar:

Its ♥♥♥♥ like this why this game, as good as it is, should never be GOTY.

I've played through it several times, but I do agree with the above sentiments about glitches and weird design choices. Act 3 feels rushed and incoherent. Well, let me rephrase that: Act 3 *was* rushed, and is therefore somewhat incoherent.

I'm not sure if it is the best game I've played this year, but personally I would only give it a B+ (especially given the lack of tools for building custom modules).

[Chaosolous]

I really enjoyed Act 3 tbh, but I'm not having such bad technical glitches as others seems to have.

Weird too because I'm holding acceptable framerates on a mid PC at max settings.

Then again, I don't have a meltdown if the game has a few frame drops here and there. Especially in a game with this kind of pacing where reaction speeds aren't all that important.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

At one point, it did go to Hell, but Larian cut that content too.

[Octopuses]

Second half of act 3 is pretty good. Act 2 is my favorite though. Anyway, game is clear GoT, even if act 3 is not perfect, just by itself is still better than other games released this year.

[ElBarto56]

Act3 was actually my favourite.