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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9839269" data-attributes="member: 18">I would definitely agree that the main story in BG3 is far weaker than the rest of it.I mean, I'm not him but off the top of my head and recent, Expedition 33, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Elden Ring, and Cyberpunk 2077 (esp. Phantom Liberty, but maybe that's considered separately - still even if it is, both individually fit the bill) all had significantly better actual main stories than BG3 did. And Elden Ring tells most of its story by implication and inference!Characters is where BG3 shines, not the main story, which is essentially about three sexed-up Power Rangers villains doing something obviously silly (in long FR tradition at least). Characters though, BG3 is light-years ahead of most games. I'd say 2077 has it beat but only if you also count Phantom Liberty, if you don't BG3 is ahead.(We gotta thank the Early Access crew for this, though - they had to push back on Larian from the start of EA to get Larian to gradually make the characters actually likeable and emotionally engaging.)I think a lot of this story blandness or weakness is because we know for a fact BG3 had major, major story changes to the entire back 2/3rds of the story part-way through development, playing down certain elements and playing up others, but the issue remains regardless of the cause, and thus it sort of becomes emotionally incoherent as a story.(I would say BG3's main story does hit a lot harder than say, anything Owlcat has ever come up with, at least, so there's that. And it's not as cold, clinical and frankly overthought as either Pillars game's main story, both of which are particularly sad misses because they're inherently emotive conceptually but presented in such a cold and almost cruel way that it doesn't really work, imho.)</blockquote>

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