Baldur's Gate 3

Bought the game on Steam, and gonna put the same review here, to hopefully save some people some cash until the game is something better. "Game crashes constantly, and character gets stuck in terrain constantly. Yes, it is a BETA, which is why it should not be a $60 game, as it is not at all finished. Gameplay wise, if you are expecting Baldur's Gate 2 in 2020, then you will be disappointed. This is a very different kind of rpg. You won't find that AD&D style play here, or isometric gameplay (though you can zoom out to something similar, but it mostly seems focused on being third person) that you may be familiar with from the old games. Combat also feels more like xcom or something of the sort, since combat is turn based, and are some bugs with that, due to character getting stuck on terrain, which can end your turn without moving or taking an action, but again the game is a BETA. You can turn off turn based combat with Shift+Space on your keyboard, but the game was obviously not meant to be played in real time. Is a whole slew of issues with real time. Of course, that is if you can ever get through five minutes of play without a crash to even do any combat. All together I'd say to pass on the game for now, wait a year until it is finished. In it's current state it is not worth paying a AAA price tag."

At the time of writing, this game has been on official release for three weeks and has already seen four hotfixes which had to correct over 1000+ glitches, errors and bad code. This game was in paid-for-pre-realease-beta-testing for over three years and still there are a LOT of patches needed to make Act III even playable, which haven't even been released at this point. Larian has proven one thing with this release, that a developer can skimp on actual game development and save a few million $$$, and just replace that with a couple $100K in marketing hype and still get the same result. 100+ GB for a top down RPG?!?! People will point to the cut scenes and voice acting and say that makes up the bulk of such size, but how many times will the average gamer actually watch such stuff? You play it through once, maybe twice, and then it's skip city from then on. Simple graphical glitches that any other AAA developer would've made priortity one to correct before release are getting a pass because of the hype raised by the marketing ads stating this is such a 'revolutionary title'. Spoiler, it's not. It's not that much different from either of the original DOS games. Just read the Larian fanboy reviews and you'll see commonality. Does the game look OK? yah. It's not earth shattering better than anything else, basically on par with any other title released in the past two years. It's not awful. It's not "Anthem" level broken, but it's definitely not polished, or complete. And there are a LOT of areas where the real fans will have to pick up the slack and make mods to turn something truly long term and playable out of what's been given here. If you're not fully fighting the itch or being bullied by your friends to jump the bridge with them, wait another six months til it's on sale for $30-40 and been patched a few dozen more times. That's no exageration, there's that much left still to fix.

Arguably the most beautiful rpg of its kind. Amazing voice acting, visuals, and story. But that's it selling point. The comabt is the absolute worst I've experienced from an RPG of this kind. Which is suprising having played abit of Larian Studios Divinity. It feels like it was made to bring in people that don't actually enjoy isometric rpgs. Kind of like how Palworld is marketed as a "monster catcher" but really it's just an FPS shooter for gamers that like the FPS genre but don't care for monster catchers, they just wanna feel apart of a "fad". Combat is so canned. I'm not one to min max, what's the point of playing an RPG is you're gonna min max, just turning it into an overly complex visual novel. I REALLY want to give BG 3 a higher rating but man... worst combat and mechanics I've ever experinced in an RPG of this kind, and despite great visuals and voice acting I've only found myself looking to fill the void BG 3 has created with older isometric RPGs that have solid mechanics.

I was a fan of Baldur's Gate I and II in their time; and now 20 years later, I am a true fan os Baldur's Gate 3 ;)

Good game but the story is kind of meh and everyone is special.