BG3 has plenty of other strengths over its predecessors. It’s just not its main villain. Gortash and Thorm were both great, but our attention was divided amongst several antagonists rather than how much of the spotlight Irenicus got.
Ketheric was good, in general I felt like Act 2 was where the game peaked for me. I didn’t really feel like Gortash was all that great of a villain honestly, although part of it may be that he got introduced so late. And Orin was absolute dogwater so that didn’t help the impression of Act 3 for me.
I feel like they needed a stronger throughline antagonist, even the big brain is introduced very late. Maybe doing something with the Emperor instead of “not all Mind Flayers are evil, actually! Hey, would you like to fuck one?” would have been better for me, I don’t know.
But I think an Elder Brain is just inherently less compelling as an antagonist than something more human, and I’m not really sure how to get around that.
BG3 has plenty of other strengths over its predecessors. It’s just not its main villain. Gortash and Thorm were both great, but our attention was divided amongst several antagonists rather than how much of the spotlight Irenicus got.
Ketheric was good, in general I felt like Act 2 was where the game peaked for me. I didn’t really feel like Gortash was all that great of a villain honestly, although part of it may be that he got introduced so late. And Orin was absolute dogwater so that didn’t help the impression of Act 3 for me.
I feel like they needed a stronger throughline antagonist, even the big brain is introduced very late. Maybe doing something with the Emperor instead of “not all Mind Flayers are evil, actually! Hey, would you like to fuck one?” would have been better for me, I don’t know.
But I think an Elder Brain is just inherently less compelling as an antagonist than something more human, and I’m not really sure how to get around that.