If you think this article or the comments here are “harsh criticism” you’re self-identifying as a full on fanboy of the neckbeard and basement variety. Get a grip.

I'm deeply confused by this "editing" complaint. Everyone edits their videos. Why are we pretending they don't? Is this some zoomer bullshit?

Yeah I was thinking of that too. I bet that ending is the vast majority of these, I hit it at like 50-something hours too, but if I knew what I was doing better it could easily have been 30-something hours.

You can complete the game and see the credits roll in Act 2, and you don’t even have to be far into Act 2. I’d say how but it’s quite a spoiler - it’s something the game literally encourages you to do though.

That you didn’t identify even a single one of those ways strongly suggests you are 150% “full of shit”. The issue isn’t that it’s far off from reality, it’s that DAO-obsessed numpties want DAO to be the best-written of the series when it just simple wasn’t, and they want to hate on DA2, but it actually much of the…

SEARCH AREA OH MY GOD.

You’re confusing demonologists and necromancers.

You’re so utterly full of shit.

It also means a gigantic amount of largely wasted effort and often seems kind of clumsy in its own way. Not to mention frequently exclusionary.

“nearly all of them are at least somewhat pushy about it”

Yes and it’s a pity it’s got a ton of issues - I actually experienced a bunch more issues with that specific questline, even after it technically finished, today. It all worked out in the end but they gave me second “Where fuck is Halsin” scare with absolutely no quest text, no map marker, no comments  from other…

It’s a very, very long game. According to Steam I’ve spent 73 hours on it since release (oh god lol) and I’m just starting Act 3 (of 3), which was claimed to be “even bigger than the previous acts” in terms of content.

Just starting Act 3 and some quests are definitely pretty unhelpfully described in the journal, or fail to update to reflect a changed situation. Which is usually okay if you’re playing continuously and know what happened, but can be confusing if you take a break, even overnight.

They don’t even though, dude, that’s the thing.

It's far worse in D4 than is normal for the genre due to you needing to be selling loot for gold. In other games you eventually ignore most items as valueless or not upgrades, but in D4 the economy is balanced on the assumption you sell pretty much every yellow and even blue item for gold. So you have to pick them up…

The not discussed but particularly surprising and cool thing re saves in BG3 is that you really can save virtually at any time, including in the middle of conversations, which is part of why one ends up with so many quicksaves.

“when it’s not coming out of the mouth of Rudy effing Giuliani” - Indeed. It’s like being sexually harassed by some sort of ghoul or lich.

Yeah, and even if The World’s End is “more challenging” to the audience it’s not exactly challenging. The biggest challenge it offers is that it’s kind of boring. Whereas Hot Fuzz has the distinction of being a comedic masterpiece.

I’m kind of in a bind there.

Which skits do you think were misses?