Baldur's Gate 3

Don’t we all?

Her voice lines are also great. We find a trapped chest:

Normal characters: “Watch out!! It’s trapped!!”

Karlach: “hehehe this is going to be fun”

Act 3 has been a mass of script errors for me. I feel like every time I play, I have a scene where a companion talks about a plot line we have already resolved, or acts like something happened that didn't. It has actually really dampened my enthusiasm for the game, compared to how polished Act 1 was especially.

I hope your playthrough continues going well!

Yeah, I'm almost done bg3, just in time for starfield, but I wish there was some downtime so I could start a fresh bg1/2 run.

Same

I was losing momentum at the end of Act 1 because my gf wanted to check every single box and nook but Act 2 is starting to ramp up.

Listened to DOS 2 soundtrack at work non stop today.

Still haven’t had mine

But I’m hoping it will be a hot one (literally)

I see that as the opposite of a problem. Play it once and do a lot of things, then you play it again and it’s like 80% a new game? Fuck yes.

Just keep playing and replaying until that new factor goes way down.

I initially had the same worry. The game becomes a lot more enjoyable if you take a hard roleplaying approach: only do what your character would do, not what a completionist good two shoes would do. From early in my first playthrough, I had already decided that I was going to do a few more. So, it doesn't feel like it matters if you really obviously miss some content.

Say what? My halfling PC has to look up at everyone in every cut scene

My biggest complaint is that we can’t just let a more appropriate character take over a conversation. One of my clumsy, dim-witted brawler friends runs ahead by one pixel triggering a cutscene, and I can’t jump in mid-conversation to smooth things over with my bardic talent. This is our most common reason for loading a previous save.

Yeah, we were running into this in my game with my buddy; I'm definitely the dumbass running ahead because I've got stealth and dex for scouting, but invisible cutscene/conversation triggers keep catching us and my dunce of a character gets stuck talking to the punters. It's kind of frustrating that the game encourages players to specialize in that way, but then makes it rather hard to take full advantage of that specialization if you don't set up the encounter absolutely perfectly.

The other one where that happens is that when a combat encounter ends with dialogue - first Auntie Ethel fight, say - the game picks the character who had the last turn as who Auntie is talking to when the conversation starts. In that case, it's almost always the party member doing big damage that pushed her past the damage threshold, and they're generally not built for talking to people.

Those get even more frustrating because there's an interface option to swap who's talking, but it doesn't seem to actually work in the majority of important conversations. It's only when talking to filler characters that I can hot-swap who's talking. I'd also love if, in addition to that button working more consistently - it'd tell you if someone in the party has 'unique' dialogue options for that moment. I think that having the whole party participate in conversations is chaotic and hard to implement in multiplayer - but a better capture of how those same interactions 'would' play out in a D&D game.

Second biggest complaint is the number of things that you can mis-click to destroy your character’s reputation. I’d love to be able to opt-in to an “are you sure” dialog when you accidentally click a random item on the floor while moving around.

It's very frustrating to get a whole faction pissed at you due to misclicking some 'owned' container or accidentally dragging a barrel. Gith creche was a nightmare for that, because every room and hallway is decorated with owned containers. Some measure to make it harder to accidentally loot someone's mold cheese while they're standing right in front of you would be really valuable.

Thats an odd multiclass i guess it gives you wildshape but not sure why else youd want it.

I get crossclassing into fighter for a level for armor or to rogue for a few for bonus action moves/disengage or for sneak attack. The magic classes seem to not be so favorable to crossclass into though.

My main character is a Gloomstalker 3/Assassin 3/Shadow Monk 6 mix, but after finally getting enough Monk levels and gear to want to use only fists I discovered they don't work with the Gloomstalker extra attack, so I might change to just Assassin/Monk.

Character one I won't name because of spoilers is Eldritch Knight 5/Druid of the Land 7 because I wanted to keep them a fighter/druid for lore reasons. It's surprisingly decent to have access to Extra Attack, Shield and Magic Missile though. Obviously not an inherently powerful combo, but good enough.

Character two I won't name for spoiler reasons is Berserker Barbarian 3/Hunter Ranger 3/Champion Fighter 6 because I wanted them to be a Berserking Ranger for lore reasons and Battle Master felt too complex for that character. It does what you would expect, which is hit stuff hard and not much else.

I respecced Shadowheart to Life Cleric 1 and the rest in Lore Bard. Not really an odd multiclass but it's very powerful. Bless, Guidance, Heavy Armor, the Life Cleric healing buff plus the full bard experience.

Multi into Barbarian and just go hard on throwing motherfuckers at other motherfuckers! You can just pick up an enemy and yeet them directly off a cliff, or into other characters, if they're small enough and your strength is good enough.