Baldur's Gate 3

Yeas, I am loving it. The characters, the secrets, the monster design, the magic, the battles, the mystery, the humor, the depth of atmosphere and overwhelmingly rich story ... Seriously, I can't get enough if this game. And there is sooo much content around every corner. This game is eating my time as I am eating hamburgers on my way home! Impressive work on so many layers. Pros: too many! Cons: - Camera feels clunky, it's really hard to turn the camera to the angle I would want it to be. - I am missing a real Pause key. There is turnbased mode, but thats not the same as in the old games - Sometimes, but rarely, a wrong language translation confused me. - (Btw, unfortunately only English voice acting - but: kind of every character is voiced!) - The performance is not very good on aged computers. However the devs are going to improve it with Patch 2, though. Long story short: This game is awesome. Worth every penny.

I waited until I finished the game until I submitted a review because Larian's final acts often leave me unsatisfied. I enjoyed this game, but there are a couple of things I didn't like. Pros: The game is huge. You can do hours and hours without even touching the main story. The main story is good and has enough twists to keep it interesting. It's great that the final battles rely heavily on ranged attacks (my go to in all RPGs). Cons: There are too many playable characters. I ended up ignoring all except Laezel, Astarion, and Shadowheart. I molded them to my style and I cared about their stories. Nobody else mattered, so I never used any of the other chars. Either don't have all these chars or allow the party to have more than 3 chars to go with the player character. The Level 12 limit is too low. I was easily a level 14 and I didn't even do a lot of the extra storylines. Lots of reviewers complain about the sex. It's pretty avoidable if you know how to read, but it just didn't need to be in the game in the first place. Many, many good RPGs don't have it and never needed it.

But boy, I was totally sucked into... It quickly overtook a lot of my favority games of the last years in play time as I enjoyed it sooo much and even played a second time through and started a third run and a fourth coop round is starting soon. It never gets boring. Something even very good games did not achieve for me. A lot games I enjoyed once. Some of them I had to push me for the last hours, and I usually explore everything in the beginning and tend to more and more go only the mains tory to the end. Not this time... I never playes another BG and never played D&D. But I played and still playing a lot of other RPGs (Computer and Pen&Paper). The grpahics, the mechanics, the story, the love to detail. the music... and I now want to start a D&D roudn with my friends ^^

This game simply isn't fun. Maybe I'm missing something? I'm following the linear early game content, and at level 2 it's already not enjoyable. Turn based combat is useless if half of your attacks miss, do minimal damage, etc. The purpose of a game is to dispatch trash and level up/ learn your class, not engage in mini boss fights against overwhelming odds. I'd get a refund in a second if I could. The only reason for the 2 stars instead of zero is due to OK graphics. I have no idea why this game rates so highly.

First of all. If you enjoy Divinity Original Sin 1&2 you may enjoy this. There are a lot of similarities. There is one thing that completely kills this game for me though. Killing a child in ANY game is something that makes me want to walk away immediately. I don't play games to be innundated with poorly veiled modern day politics in poorly worded dialogue. When you add child murder I stop playing. Weaving current events properly into a game can be a thought provoking and moving experience. That seems to be completely lost in this game. It is brought into the game with the finesse of a sledgehammer through killing a child, and having a druid of all things (has Larian studios read ANY of the Forgotten Realms novels?!? It certainly doesn't look like it) act like some sort of neo-nazi is incredibly immersion breaking. As a 35 year veteran of D&D it is obvious that they have no idea what druids are about. If druids believed the people from Elturel would disrupt the balance of nature they would never have shown themselves and carefully manipulated them through magic and animals to move on. They WOULD NOT invite them in and then have the second in command turn into some sort of nazi all of a sudden. And every druid in the grove would know that the person had a tadpole in their head the SECOND it happened. Sylvanus would never allow this kind of desecration of his most holy groves. You want to create a story in a 40+ year old world? LEARN THE LORE! I realise that this is an early access game, but when you charge $60 you don't get to have as many bugs as this game has. Broken textures and shaders, horrible camera angles, unresponsive UI, crashes, dozens of invisible walls stopping targetting. The fact that you can't click on a spell and then on someone's portrait to cast it on a party member, something that was possible in the original, is just bad. All in all. The story seems lackluster, the mechanics are ok, It's not worth $60 though and I doubt it will...