Probably better to just emulate old games and play indie titles these days. Even Ubisoft starts with a subscription service now, wouldnt be surprised if more big companies follow and then you cant even refund a game which you didnt like or was buggy. So maybe worth getting a steamdeck or switch 2 if it has to be a console. Sony/MS have become too greedy and censor happy. But I would thing at least the switch 2 is still a 2 years away.
Did it even have computer bots? I cant remember anymore. But yeah during that time Perfect Dark, Duke Nukem 64, Mario Kart, Diddy Kong racing, F-Zero, Smash, was all pretty fun with friends. But Forsaken was kinda special because I had that one friend I always played with who camped all the good items then blew you up with the titan missle if you approached and got a new one. So I guess there were bots or else I would have nothing to do there unless to instantly die to the camper.
Do you have any specific quests in mind here which dont fit while you travel? It really arent that many epic quests really on the road. Only one which comes to my mind is the chest with beholder bottle in it. And that only really gives you an option to trade in the zentarim hideout. And the only tavern early on you find is burning. The Githranki on the road make sense because a giant ship crashed near by.
Cant really think of any major quests you cant pick up in npc hubs unless you count the Ravengard rescue from the burning tavern. Nightsong quest starts in the druid grove which is a big quest hub.
I disagree with that that you have to get your quests from a questhub somewhere its not an mmorpg and even there I hate it makes exploring no fun if you just collect all quests in a city and follow the quest markers to the goal.
Also the area with duergar/myconids is optional you can also go over the mountainpass (no underdark needed) and directly into the shadowlands if you can beat/avoid a few level 5ish undeads where the shepards can rezz the ghouls.
Overworld map would have been great but devs probably didnt want to balance the game arround the legendary items in the city.
If you get it for free and dont pay for it sure. You can also install a few mods which dewokify it. Which would get deleted on nexus immediatly. https://modhq.org/Baldur's%20Gate%203 (especially no alphabets and better aesthetics and no male romance are great) https://rpghq.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=48682#p48682
this one is also good if you want to remove asian/african looking headshapes
But even without those the game is mostly woke free until the end of second act if you ignore the diverse druids. And you can sacrifice one character you dont like at a certain spot for more crit damage when enemies bleed.
Would be nice to have the full speech of that from a different source but cant find anything from him on youtube from that speech. Allegly the word "not" got cut out of the clip, said someone on twitter. No idea if that is true but not unlikely.
Its already harder if they cant pay smugglers anymore. But they can also build a few asylum centers in lybia there and anyone who wants to have asyl has to go there with a working passport. Should discourage enough to do the long journey.
yeah but that would bring other problems aswell, just have some prisonships ready where you can put them and then drop them back in africa or syria where they come from. They will run out of money to pay smugglers at some point.
Certainly not wrong, and these survival/building games are getting kinda boring anyway.
What wouldnt I give for a great isekai rpg game where you slowly have to grind your powers via Elderscrolls type leveling and all that with a mature theme with lots of gore and evil stuff you can do. Preferable very realistic like the bookworm anime where you arent too op.