games

it feels less mundane, and the factions underground are.... actually fun

writing is \better**

not great, but servicable

and the character writing and puzzles are more fun

have the ship at the beginning still crash on the beach, have there be a small fishing village or w/e, small amount of stuff on the surface

but make 90% of the act the underground

there's more going on with gods, the absolute, etc. etc.

and it's less dumb like the Goblin v tieflings v druids thing is

the underground was the last area to come out in EA

btw

so it's more recent?

2022-onward?

its the most recent content players could play

ye

it was 2022/2023

last EA update was jan 2023

the underground is a better look at what the games later acts will be more like

im pretty sure

i dont think it makes a better opening though

I see the cope has begun

cope?

i disagree with you on the writing

i dont think its better

its just less heavy handed

idk, I have zero expectation the rest of the game will be better

if anything its even more black and white than the surface

there are two different types of writing

its just not as redditspeak

and idk the actual name for what I'm talking about

i dont think its better at all, i jsut think its more like what the rest of the game will be'

the actual text they wrote for NPCs, is maybe a tiny bit better, but alot of that is no goblins

i dont

think the goblins are really that bad spooky

the worst dialogue comes from the tieflings and druids

hands down

uh, sure maybe

idk

it was all bad

the goblins act like fantasy goblins

idk what your issue can even be with them

I don't care as much about that writring though

the goblins have like

the LEAST dialogue

the actual overarching narrative, underground

is what I think is better

the writing for dialogue is still mostly bad

i think its less heavy handed so it comes off a lot less cringy

but general like, "how good is this story"

I don't really think it's better

I think the area concepts underground, are better

nothing is resolved, everyhing is loose ends because you need to see what happens next in part 2!!!!

which I'm attributing to "writing"

which is what im starting to hate the most

every single questline

ends with

"Yeah maybe you'll see me later..."

lol, yup

lot of that

not every quest needs to go to fucking baulders gate

"meet me in baldurs gate"

the underground it's 10x worse

is

all you get

every single quest

ends with that

or if it doesnt end with that its

open ended/no answer

so you're just expected to "find it later"

aka

progress the game

i don't think that's a good way to write at all

I think there's more of that above ground

there's zero point in getting invested

uhh

no

people MENTION baulders gate more

yes

but I'll concede, the underground isn't great at that

but underground EVERY SINGLE QUEST

has that outcome