Be glad that this is what you're getting. Pillars 2 is just reddit horny dialogue all the way and with Avowed(takes place in the same universe) they removed the horny part and doubled down on the reddit. Pillars 1 might be the last well written Obsidian game(I think Tyranny also wasn't bad but I didn't play that one yet).
Personally I've always thought it was the worst of both worlds. It's a generic and prosaic setting with standard D&D slop content, but it's ALSO impenetrably baroque. It doesn't matter how detailed you make your history and background stuff if it just fundamentally isn't all that interesting. If you're going to put all that effort into describing the little details to the point you're using a fictional naming language that's basically making it impossible for regular gamers to pronounce anything, you want to make sure it's in service to something really worth learning about. It takes some effort learning the lore of the Planescape setting but that setting is actually interesting and has content outside the standard bears, dragons, and ancient elves.
The crazy part is I actually played Avowed a month ago and the only dialogue I remember was the fish guy reiterating to my face what I just saw on my television screen. I don’t remember what else was said because I ended spam clicking the skip button.
Durance and Grieving Mother were both written by Avellone and had the worst prose of the game easily. Grieving Mother especially because she doesn't even really fit into the game world and seems more like some idea that he had for PS:T that didn't make the cut.
Most of the companions aren't great and up to personal taste. One of the things about WoTR is with the Mythic rules you can make a fantasy superhero and it's fun to find all the ways you can break the game. Lann works better as a turret, and I always found Camellia (Shut up I can fix her) and Ember put out enough healing. They also serve well enough for all the buffs you'll need.
Age of Decadence is great at pragmatic evil in a ruthless world, Rogue Trader is great for making over the top villainy feel plausible, Arcanum, NWn2:MOTB more like WOTR
I can agree about Grieving Mother, but on Durance? Nah, no way, nigga.
Vanilla Pillars is rather boring and a slog, but once you get to White March, it's incredible.
Sosiel isn't that bad, it was interesting seeing a sensitive artist find his place in a cruel world. He fails his main quest if you don't toughen him up before meeting the brother.
WotR is an awesome game, and pretty much a dream sequel to BG2:SoA.
Is the game done? Or are they still pumping DLC?
It's excellent and almost bug free now.
Wasn't the balance of the game completely broken at launch? Did they actually get around to fixing it or is this cope? I wouldn't know, the horny reddit dialogue filtered me out before I could even try it out, let alone get to the game being an unbalanced mess.
I've no idea what you're talking about. Sawyer is a known balance fag, to the point it ruins the fun.
The balancing at launch was so infamously bad that even people outside the RPG sphere were talking about it. Either it was fixed or you didn't notice it while playing, either way nothing can make me play this game after I've seen it's writing.
