Baldur's Gate 3

On release all the language they were using made it seem like the opening area on day one paid access unlock, was a tutorial zone to get you introduced to the world and systems. Which it does. However that's it. Which is to say there is no this is one of many areas that you will be able to travel to on the world map. The druid goblin area you start in is the game. No baldurs gate. They just half a year ago announced their intention to sell us the other areas as expansions, and that baldurs gate will not be in this release of baldurs gate after non stop talk that they used as a selling point of what the city was going to be. Simply it is not going to be. The greater problem surprisingly is the childish writing. as an example (minor spoiler alert though i speak as hazily as possible) They have the big bad goblin menace qued up as some big deal and i shit you not they end up liner pipe lining you through a friendly goblin festival.... AFTER YOU KILL YOUR WAY THERE. Nothing flows, nothing makes sense, there is no flesh to the plot. just a plot that rams through everything in a straight line ignoring reason and the world around it.

Not early access, not beta or trail mode. It means full game. Not one red cent.

After finally getting to play this I am severely let down. This is not Baldur's gate.. it's like they just stripped away everything good. There is simply too much wrong with this that I can not even begin to explain. So I will just vent my disappointment on here and not recommend this game to anyone who has had the pleasure of experiencing the previous games.

This may be irrelevant but just a small mention for all potential buyers that all game cut-scenes have a huge watermark on screen screaming "EARLY ACCESS" while you're just trying to enjoy the cut-scene. Its not even small like in other games, its actually huge. Yeah, I know its early access - anyone who downloaded the game knows its early access. Anyhow, definitely not a deal breaker just something to keep in mind if you're like me and things like this really bother you to the point you want to talk about it in a review. Hope this helps someone!

I bought this in Steam, and got my money back. This is not Baldur's Gate. This is Pathfinder set in the Spelljammer universe. The battle system is Pathfinder. The graphics are still the same as BGI and BGII; that is to say I still cannot always see where my people can and cannot walk. However, the Baldur's Gate battle system is fluid. The die is roll in the background; your speed is accounted for; your number-of-attacks per-round are accounted for. Spells can be interrupted, because they take a certain amount of time to cast. In this imposter game, die are rolled in the background, and you are assigned a spot in the flow of battle. Sometimes, when you try to attack, that is to say move and attack, it will say you cannot. BUT, if you move, then attack, you can. That means poor game mechanics. Your spells will not be interrupted, because they are cast during your turn, not fluidly as part of the larger battle. There is entirely too many cut-scenes, making this more a movie in which you get to do stuff, rather than a game with period interesting scenes. The screen-scroll is off by default, so you are forced to fumble around in the options to find where to activate that. This crap with pulling the scene around is just that: crap. It hinders fluid game mechanics. In short, this is over-priced, poorly conceptualized, poorly planned, and poorly developed. They think that they are going to get 260€ for their digital content release, trying to emotionally blackmail avid players of the BG series into paying 60€ for something that is not true to the Baldur's Gate series. Bill this as part of the Pathfinder series, because that is what you have developed. You've taken a great game series and screwed it up for a whole new generation, who are unfamiliar with the original Baldur's Gate I and Baldur's Gate II games. Some of us are veteran players of those original games, and don't appreciate what you have done.