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Super Serious Scientific Analysis and Critique of BG2:SoA

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Same with the story, it just felt bland and boring to me in BG1. There are interesting elements but overall it's just meh. I never cared about any of the characters. BG2, on the other hand, was much more engaging: the antagonist directly hurts you in the beginning so it's personal (Sarevok kills your mentor whom you actually meet in-game for a 10 minute prologue... ok, I don't give a fuck), and all the faction quests are directly relevant to your goal of getting revenge on Irenicus. Factions are also much more interesting, there's the whole shadow war thing, and the area BG2 is set in is inherently more interesting than the area BG1 is set in.
Also Serevok is only seen twice in the game - once at the beginning and once at the end. His big plan is to create an iron crisis and monopolise the market, then use that power to make a play for the throne. One wonders why the game needs to be set in Forgotten Realms at all, in some ways its a very dry fantasy story. The trade federation forming a blockade around Naboo had more fantasy than this.
Because Baldur's Gate was meant to be a tool for his actual goal just like iron throne was tool for getting it. He wanted to start bloody war which would fuel his ascension.
 

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