Baldur's Gate 3

best game ever existing in this world, fight me

Having played the original Baldur's gate series, the other Infinity engine games, Obsidian's excellent Pillars of Eternity and good but unpolished Tyranny I was glad to see a new installment in the Baldur's Gate series. This game leaves the Bhaal-saga and is a new story set around in the Forgotten Realm's Baldurs Gate. The early access version allows you to play through the first act of the game. So far the story is good, graphics and atmosphere is excellent. Where the original Baldur's Gate game NPC's are either friend or foe, Baldur's gate 3 is far more diverse and allowing you multiple ways to accomplish a quest. I hope that Larian will take their time to complete the game and polish it before release. Keep up the good work!

As many people pointed out- this game is very different from previous BGs. I don't really want to touch this topic as it doesn't mean it's a bad game on its own (although it certainly is disappointing to get another Divinity expecting BG) but it's been a year since the game was released in Early Access and it still has many bugs and gameplay problems with little new content released (and no proper release date). It still crashes fairly often, there are many oddities in dialogues (like not acknowledging certain things) and you still can get attacked for no apparent reason and without warning (entering hidden passage in certain hideout for example- there are no doors there so you can simply wander in and get instantly attacked). Party management is a chore- only single character may be given orders, rest follows... And apparently the bug has already eaten some parts of their brains as they often get stuck and you'll only notice that they're couple hundred meters away after combat starts. Traps? They'll happily run into them and there's no auto-pause (or any pause at all actually) on spotting a trap- in this particular regard game is faithful to its predecessor and there are many of those. Yes, they try to avoid them but clearly aren't doing it well. It might be a good game eventually but for the moment it's not worth it- bugs are plenty and development speed underwhelming.

The gameplay, graphics, and sheer creativity of this game is wonderful. It's a blast to play and I grew very fond of my party. This said, the game has one serious issue; its not finished. As of right now you're limited to level 5 and act 1 of the game. This wouldn't be so bad if not for the fact that every update forces you to restart. I've seen the same cutscene 4 times now. I know how every decision will pan out. Iunderstand the mentality of prerelease games and how it helps developers raise funds and smooth out gameplay, however this has been early access for far too long. A complete game would be an absolute gem, however as of now it's just frustrating to create a character, level up, and complete quests, only to come back the next day and all your progress is gone.

Great story Great characters Beautiful crisp graphics Awesome combat system An overwhelmingly terrific experience Multiple ways of fighting, and completing quests, to an insane degree. This game should be played at a good pace, because its so grand scale in its complexity and design. The world and its characters, and the effect you can have, you will have to do multiple playthroughs in order to fully experience this game, that is its beauty, that your journey is your journey, if you and your friends only played this game once, you would all likely have had very different experiences of events that transpired. I have a love hate relationship with this type of combat system, i am very new to it but i actually kinda love it, there is always something to learn whenever i fail and die, i always manage to find a better way to deal with a fight and you can combat enemies in such vastly diverse ways, from complex spell combinations stacking onto each other delivering hellfire on your enemy to ... throwing the enemy into the depths of a chasm, combat is awesome in this game.