Geek Confessional Thread 2024 [NOW 2025!]

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Confession time:
I quite enjoyed BG3, but I disliked the final act so much it soured the rest of the game for me. Also, Karlach is overrated. (Samantha Beart is great though)

I didn't have quite as harsh a reaction, but the third act did feel unpolished by comparison. Lots of fantastic ideas, but the intricate connections between them and the nuance and cleverness with which they unfurled, all of which were present in the previous acts, particularly the first, weren't there. Was so much time spent burnishing the absolute gem that was the first act that there wasn't time left to give the final act the attention it needed? The first act did benefit from multiple years of early access feedback as well.

 

[Autumnal]

I don’t like Erol Otus’ art. None of his work has ever made me think “Yes, that’s so cool, that’s how I want it to be in my games.” So many others, including a lot of people whose tastes I respect and generally share, do get something out of it that I’m comfortable identifying my reaction as another of my blind spots. But there it is, and I’m not expecting it to change now, almost half a century after first contact.

 

[Reynard]

I don’t like Erol Otus’ art. None of his work has ever made me think “Yes, that’s so cool, that’s how I want it to be in my games.” So many others, including a lot of people whose tastes I respect and generally share, do get something out of it that I’m comfortable identifying my reaction as another of my blind spots. But there it is, and I’m not expecting it to change now, almost half a century after first contact.

I feel much the same about Brom. I don't get it. I'm glad some folks do, but it's overrated to me. This, unsurprisingly, means I also don't get the Dark Sun love.

 

[TiQuinn]

confession: I watched it and enjoyed it and after reading this thread from the start and a lot of it is :
"It's popular and it sucks or i dislike that it's popular."

IMO, I watched it as a kid when quirky, offbeat sci-fi fantasy movies were kind of few and far between unless it was something like a Star Wars ripoff or a Conan ripoff. To someone who never saw it and comes from a different generation with higher expectations, I can see them bouncing off of it.

I love its weirdness. And the closing credits are a total bop.

 

[Mind of tempest]

I feel much the same about Brom. I don't get it. I'm glad some folks do, but it's overrated to me. This, unsurprisingly, means I also don't get the Dark Sun love.

I more like darksun for the alienness of it in comparision to more basic fantasy as sometimes things get stuck in a rut of blindly copying without considering why.
Also I love psionics for my own largely insane reasons and thri kreen come closest to the fantasy sapient species that makes sense to me, just not quite.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Sometimes a story simply needs a longer space to run. Sometimes it doesn't, but suggests successor stories.

The biggest risk is when someone assumes they'll get something like four or five seasons to unpack everything, since a lot of streamers consider two seasons all they want to bother with (Netflix notoriously, but it applies to some others, too).

Oh definitely. Some stories take time. But it's a huge gamble in today's streaming environment. I never expected the Wheel of Time series to make it to the end, for example.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Oh definitely. Some stories take time. But it's a huge gamble in today's streaming environment. I never expected the Wheel of Time series to make it to the end, for example.

Yeah. I'm really hoping Hazbin Hotel gets the fifth season its creator pictured being the logical endpoint for the series.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Oh definitely. Some stories take time. But it's a huge gamble in today's streaming environment. I never expected the Wheel of Time series to make it to the end, for example.

I hate that it is such a gamble as it restricts what stories can get told, and they seem to never want to gamble on anything solid it is like they are using bad data.

Yeah. I'm really hoping Hazbin Hotel gets the fifth season its creator pictured being the logical endpoint for the series.

not a me series but I hope it ends well if only so I do not have to get another firefly situation washing up on my shores

 

[TheHand]

Was so much time spent burnishing the absolute gem that was the first act that there wasn't time left to give the final act the attention it needed?

I really think this is accurate. Some good foundation was present in Act 3, but it really felt rushed and less nuanced. Also…

Spoiler: Spoiler for BG3 ending

I really didn’t like the focus on the mind flayers, and I thought surely there will be some solution and achievement for not using any tadpoles or tadpole powers! Nope, nothing, and not only that you’re forced to empower the Emperor (who I hated) or sacrifice one of your characters so that you can drive a mind flayers at the end. The devs seemed to think illithids were “rad” and everyone must want to play one! As I understand there’s a way to glitch the game with Gale and Lae’zel during the Orpheus conversation so no one has to become a mind flayers, but I had no desire to go back and try it u

 

[Mind of tempest]

I really think this is accurate. Some good foundation was present in Act 3, but it really felt rushed and less nuanced. Also…

Spoiler: Spoiler for BG3 ending

I really didn’t like the focus on the mind flayers, and I thought surely there will be some solution and achievement for not using any tadpoles or tadpole powers! Nope, nothing, and not only that you’re forced to empower the Emperor (who I hated) or sacrifice one of your characters so that you can drive a mind flayers at the end. The devs seemed to think illithids were “rad” and everyone must want to play one! As I understand there’s a way to glitch the game with Gale and Lae’zel during the Orpheus conversation so no one has to become a mind flayers, but I had no desire to go back and try it u

I can see a logic to the dev solution but I also see wanting to beat them wth out any illithid stuff, as I might what a PC sized aberration just not the brain eaters