5. It’s designed to fail the day after the warranty expires.

Yeah, that argument falls apart when henry just randomly moves the pick even though you didn’t move the controller.

Literally—well at least from the devs and ever since KCD1—that’s how it works.

How else would they express how noob he is?

Look at Henry like you look at yourself 10 years ago. So confident, knew so much less. He’s your intern. Interns are frustrating. You were also a frustrating fumbler at the beginning of everything you learned.

That “random” movement increases the further through the lockpick acrion he gets. But when he’s skilled, it doesn’t. He’s patient and gentle with the tension.

What more could you want from a lockpicking system that’s super basic for all gamers but still represents the reality of someone learning lockpicking?

Edit: Also he picks locks in the first game doesn’t he? So he just forgets how locks work because of his fall? Bad design imo but a great game other than that one system.

The immersion of this is all explained. I highly recommend you play KCD1, though it is more challenging and realistic in skilling and especially combat. You have to teach him to read before you can read lockpicking books, for example. Becaue obviously not many people knew how to then, especially a blacksmith’s boy in a small village. You can, yes. Henry can’t. And if you try read it appears as gibberish to you, slowly getting better as he learns.

Like all of Henry’s skills, he sucks at the start.

You are him. So you’ve got some faint knowledge that it can be done, but no idea how exactly, and with rudimentary tools to boot.

Just like you IRL, it takes Henry learning how locks fundamentally work, what picking is actually doing inside, then getting better at the feel of it. And just like IRL, Henry gets good at lock picking quite quickly after some practice and being shared knowledge. Sure enough, he too soon understands how easy mediaeval locks are.

All of the skills are like this by design. You may think something is easy, but Henry don’t. He knows as much as you did before you looked into it.

Don’t! It’s a scam. He never got the money. I felt so bad for him, I gave him an extra $1K.

BG3 is the same as any of the other games previously. A D&D game with an amazing DM. Immersive story and characters, great system at the foundation, and excellent gameplay to channel the story and system through.

I think BG3 spent most of their time saying no to dull or shallow ideas, rather than reinventing the wheel. And of course it worked incredibly.