Baldur's Gate 3

I'm 48 and have been a game since Commadore 64 in the 80s. Had every console thru the years imaginable- Atari, Collecovision, Intellevision, Sega, Sega Saturn, all the Nintendos/Playstations/Xboxes , and currently have a RTX 4090/13700k PC. This is the most fun I've had playing a video game in years. The gameplay is faitful as can be with DnD5e. The story and dialogue's writing and voice acting is incredible. Every day I play 8-12 hours like a fiegn. The Graphics are incredible- from the HDR to the 4k textures to the physics (omg especially water physics) , to the polish and optimization (180-220 fps in 4k all Ultra/High settings and HDR on). The on-the-fly switching to controller for exploring and back to M/KB for menus/battles (both are fabulous stand-alone too) is genius and useful. I love everything about this game and it's my 2nd 10/10 in the past decade plus. A TRUE MASTERPIECE! Must buy- if you miss out on this game as a gamer that's just a tragedy and you have critically failed your Intelligence check

I'm sure Larian will patch the game up and make it worth a damn in a year or two, but they should have done that before launching the game in the first place. As it stands, the game is bugged beyond belief and extremely unpolished. The first act is well done, as that was what was in Early Access, and the second act is also pretty badass with a few caveats (especially for Evil player characters, but I'll get to that), but act 3 is a hard wall. It's just bad, I don't really know how else to say it. Flow is interrupted entirely, many quests callback to things that didn't happen or happened different, entire major quests are broken to the point of being unfinishable. These are required MAIN quests. It's embarrassing to release in this state and even knowing Larian has a good reputation for fixing things I can't really forgive that. It is my understanding that they polished the mainline "good guy" route the most, knowing that most players choose those options, and it really shows. I have done as much as I can across several playthroughs, and discussed with friends, and evil just gets shafted. You lose out on tons of companions, entire areas become optional, major story beats make no sense or are hamfisted, it's just a joke. This compounds with numerous bugs that only strike for evil protagonists, it's just annoying and insulting in a game that claims to be about choice. The ONE single character you get for going evil (who you can get as a neutral character as well) was bugged on release to the point where nearly all of her post-recruitment content was just non-existent. That feels like something REALLY OBVIOUS that QA should have caught. But Larian decided to outsource QA to Early Access players, I guess. Once they fix everything I am sure this game will be pretty good but I just don't know how I'm supposed to feel about a company that releases something like this and expects money up front before they fix it. My mistake for buying in early, so I guess I won't again.

I haven't played a game with as many bugs as this one: - 1/3 of the saved game states disappear for no reason, - the in-game menu disappears after extended playtime, - synchronization worked until the first patch - then it didn't :) [Info from GOG that the game doesn't have this implemented - it's just strange that there's an option in the game to choose, and it worked - but what can you expect from GOG] - game crashes are the norm ;) - Polish translation - I've never seen so many errors, grammatical or spelling. - Most of the books/writings haven't been translated at all - just a square - because why bother displaying it in English, - Some dialogues were randomly in English :) - The camera work is even worse than the Polish translation; it's indescribable, painful to watch, - The combat system is a disaster - it sometimes drags on for ages, and enemies often get 5x more moves than you :) - Poor storytelling - but what can you expect from this studio's game. - Game endings :) hmm how to put it - they might as well not exist :) - Many issues like suddenly the team isn't grouped - and you can't group them for anything unless you reload a save or restart the game, - Controls are wonky, and the character can get stuck, - Team members teleport, jump, or take shortcuts XD - Mission objective markers are buggy - especially in dungeons/cellars in the last city. - Reporting all these problems [more than I'm listing here] to the developer - no response to this day. I played the game "with assistance" to see how it plays and how it presents itself. This is a much worse level than CyberPunk 2077 - I didn't think I would ever play a worse game [that this is even possible - but as you can see, it is]. Almost a month after release - the bugs are still there, and there's no response. The game goes in the trash - since refunds don't work - just like GOG - it's trash, and customer bug reports are ignored.

I have played this game since 2020, and have loved all the different things you can do and be in this game. I was really looking forward to seeing where the plot would go and what was the reviel to the mysteries in the game. Although I loved my time with the game, some of the execution left me wanting. Certain story elements seem to come out of nowhere just to fill a need to push the plot forward, and without mush depth the elemts were resolved and now onto the next plot point. Loved the game, especially the actual playing of the game mechanics, a good overall plotline and resolution. Very sudden plot points to get there though.

Title says it all. Constant crashes, I'm sure this game is good but I'm lucky to get 30mins before it quits to windows or hard restarts my PC. Never had an issue with early access version so I'm not sure what's going on, perhaps they changed something for the console release which doesn't play well with my system? I'm not running a potato either, RTX2070Super, i7-10700k, 32GB DDR4, NVMe SDD. At this point you're taking a gamble, as of now (11/09/2023) some people have no issues and for others its unplayable. Larian have suggested fixes on their website, other players have shared their tips for getting it to run, nothing has worked for me. Give it 6 months I'm sure it'll be fixed but I've been waiting 2yrs for full release. Very disappointing.