I feel like the game direction kinda got derailed when Keanu came in. Don’t get me wrong, I thought he did a fantastic job and I really enjoyed his character and the game.
But the original vision when they first started talking about the game spoke of having multiple story lines that were all very different throughout the entire game, not just the beginning. When Keanu came in to play a single character in one of those paths, so much time got devoted to him that the ideas for those other story lines basically vanished.
Granted it was very ambitious having multiple different full story lines, but that replayability would have been insane.
Yeah, I just finally picked up Cyberpunk a month or two ago. Great game—I thoroughly enjoyed it—but it doesn’t have the breadth of, say, BG3, where you’re missing out on a ton of content based on the choices you make. I could do a new Cyberpunk playthrough and like, do a melee build instead of ranged, but there’s no real story-based impetus for replaying it imo.
That’s a pretty tough comparison, to be fair. I can’t think of any other comparable RPGs with as much built-in replayability as BG3. And even in BG3, you’re stuck with the brainworm plotline, much like Johnny Silverhand. There’s just a lot more depth to the various paths you can take.
I feel like the game direction kinda got derailed when Keanu came in. Don’t get me wrong, I thought he did a fantastic job and I really enjoyed his character and the game.
But the original vision when they first started talking about the game spoke of having multiple story lines that were all very different throughout the entire game, not just the beginning. When Keanu came in to play a single character in one of those paths, so much time got devoted to him that the ideas for those other story lines basically vanished.
Granted it was very ambitious having multiple different full story lines, but that replayability would have been insane.
Yeah, I just finally picked up Cyberpunk a month or two ago. Great game—I thoroughly enjoyed it—but it doesn’t have the breadth of, say, BG3, where you’re missing out on a ton of content based on the choices you make. I could do a new Cyberpunk playthrough and like, do a melee build instead of ranged, but there’s no real story-based impetus for replaying it imo.
That’s a pretty tough comparison, to be fair. I can’t think of any other comparable RPGs with as much built-in replayability as BG3. And even in BG3, you’re stuck with the brainworm plotline, much like Johnny Silverhand. There’s just a lot more depth to the various paths you can take.