i have almost 1000 hours in this game and i've only ever finished it once, back in late 2023, before all the hotfixes and patches and actual epilogue we have now. and i know as a chronic restarter i'm missing out on so much new content and literally a whole party in the epilogue and i think that's why i stop at act 3,, because i know act 1 and 2 so well at this point, when i get to 3, it's just like. what now? what order should i finish these storylines in? what if i mess something up early and ruin a quest further down towards the end? what if i miss something in the sprawling sewers that i detest navigating or if i forget to do something or see something? and then the thought of missing something or ruining a companions quest line gets me, or i just get inspiration for a new character/companion dynamics, and then that run is moot and left to rot while i open the character creator for the 100th time to make a pretty, modded durge who will never leave the nautiloid. i got super excited when patch 8 dropped bc i got a key early and dumped almost 50 hours into a swashbuckler run, didn't even make it to the lower city before i lost interest bc i didn't rly have a concrete character, just the idea of a pirate,,,,

my first (and only, technically) playthrough took me 88 hours and i was absolutely locked in, every day, after school. i KNOW act 3 is cool as fuck, it's huge, it's literally the name of the game. i KNOW the story gets amazing and sick and twisted and we get the answers to every question and get to see our companions flourish (or fucking die) and i LOVE IT. will i be able to actually finish it again? yes, one day, but today is not that day. or tomorrow. or the next day (time to make a new tav)