I don't play many PC games these days because of how woke a lot of the shit is. I got burned on Cyberpunk, so now I pretty much play FS2020 and that's it these days. The last game I played through was System Shock remake, which I found to be decent enough.
BG3 won game of the year from Worth a Buy, but I hear it has a lot of gay sex?
I found the game boring tbh. Story was meh. Gameplay was meh. I think it was probably a good game given games these days. I think I just don't like gaming very much anymore.
Also Virconia, not sure what her point was, I did not find a way to have her join me.
It had a ton of memberbarries, remember Sarevok, remember Jahiera (now old and weak), remember Minsc (with I think 10 strength?), remember the Slayer? It was all forced for nostalgia. So much focus on Jahiera being old as well, like she was half-elf she was not suppose to age worse then Minsc.
I felt used.
What they did to Viconia (and Sarevok) was complete bullshit and was the final determinator in my decision to not get this game. If the original characters don't deserve to have their redemption arcs, why the hell should any of Larian's get any?
I agree with everything you wrote but I don't think it was critical enough even tbh. I found balancing a big issue myself and the combat felt more tedious than anything. I felt confused at times at what I was even supposed to do to progress the story and then felt the options I wanted to take weren't feasible due to the difficulty and it wasn't easy figuring out how to improve my strength without ruining the ability to take the options I wanted.
The whole time I was playing BG3, I just felt like I'd rather be playing BG2 instead.