what if i told you... there was never any upper city "content" in the first place...

If there were 2 companions I would wish more proper content from it would be Wyll and Halsin.

Wyll is a core companion. He's important to the entire story, a hero of baldurs gate that people know from title alone. He should be known and recognized throughout the city. I want a quest for him that is about him and not just him pushing the main plot. He has an abysmal amount of content and deserves so much better. I entirely missed his act 1 quest because I had no idea how to complete it without killing people, and even then I had no clue those people were important because I wasn't with him the first time I ran through. In act 2 he has almost no content, sure we save Mizora but unless you manage to save florence we miss content for him. How are none of the enemies going to react to the literal son of the Duke being brainwormed and present when their plan heavily involves Duke Ravengard.

This is also coming after the recent patch made his act 3 quest of finding the dragon A SUBQUEST. Updated kisses for him are nice, but not only does he have 1 maybe 2 greetings, but he's also lacking so much content that most companions already have.

Why couldn't we get content of meeting people wyll knew as a teenager who he was maybe friends with? I'm guessing we couldn't visit his estate because they removed the uppercity (which also removed Karlach's fully happy ending). I'm holding out hope that one day we get an upper city release and more content for my boy that gives us people we can ask about his childhood.

Now for Halsin, I love him, he's my favorite, but I'm aware he comes second to Wyll as a character who needs more integration. He's a possible companion you get if you side with the Grove and im fine with that, but please can he get more content. Maybe some dialogue, maybe a not exactly romantic scene after his act 2 quest. Just something more. I've also heart that prerelease he was the one who actually killed Isobel and part of his need to fix the shadowcursed land was due to his guilt about that and knowledge that he's largely to blame for Ketheric. That's so incredibly interesting.

We already know Halsin can be angry from how he acts once we reach the city, I'd love to explore what led up to Isobel's death and the connection between him and Ketheric. Can you imagine an act 2 confrontation if they kept that in? Imagine if having him on the team made it impossible to convince Ketheric to stand down. Meeting isobel again and him knowing who she is but being unwilling to speak because he's already guilty enough. A lot of people's biggest issue with Halsin is they find him boring, removing such an interesting part of the lore was such a bad call. Let him be complex.

Give my boys some proper lore Larian, I'm begging you to give them content.

weird to think that 5-7 days after bg3 release the speedrunners were reporting on things and I listened with curiosity. But speedrunners are not the best at noticing story related things. this is understandable. if they skip things on purpose then they can't notice what's missing. so they said "oh act 3 is a bit bugged" and we thought it's because that part hasn't been tested in early access.

BUT the game isn't even bugged. not technically. these aren't bugs but missing content still trying to trigger in the game.😭and that is so fucking sad. because functionally the game is kinda perfect. the game is even trying to do its job with the content that is missing. lmao

I just wish Larian would say something about the upper city that they were so proud of during the final panel from hell. what was the problem? what happened last minute? and what's next? if they don't plan on adding any of the cut content into the game then the karlach questline at the very least requires a new solution, a rewrite

just bg3 rant, some act3 spoilers i guess

Of course I picked the one character to romance who doesn't have a good ending as a choice, and now I'm genuinely feeling upset and thinking about starting another playthrough even though i'm pretty close to the ending. I get that it makes for a really touching and powerful and sad storyline but would it really been too much to ask to fix and include the option that was apparently made but cut out of the release, when all the other companions can get a happy ending. Actually fucking killed my interest to continue playing when I learned about this. Would've not picked this option for my good guy first run if i knew beforehand. I'm sorry but turning my wife into a mindflayer or sending her back to avernus is not a good ending to me. And it's not just Karlach's storyline, even though that bother's me the most. I really hope larian will patch in the upper city stuff in the future because this actually sucks ass. Great game so far but act3 feels so... scattered and broken story wise, there are lead ups to so many questlines that are just unfinished because they'd take place in the upper city, it's really disappointing. I know full well the amount of cut content and crunch times for release in the game industry, but I really wish they'll be doing an update at some point, as unlikely as that is. I'm gonna go sulk in silence now and think how to get my interest back to finish my playthrough or if I should just start from scratch.