Baldur's Gate 3

I can't stop playing this. With bugs and everything, I think it's the most enjoyable and the closest you can get to play DnD 5e on tabletop, which is EXACTLY what I wanted. So let me break this down for you: If you are and old fan of BG's saga and miss the good ol' times, this ain't the game for you. If you are a fan of Divinity Original Sin who thinks BG3 is going to be Baldur's Gate with OS mechanics, or Original Sin 3 in a Forgotten Realms setting, forget it. If you are a fan of both BG and OS and look for the perfect mixture between the two, you are going to be utterly disappointed. This game does not mean to be a succesor of any of that, instead it is creating something new and evolving to new times. Larian has taken the DnD 5e ruleset and has implemented (or is implementing) all that in glorious video game format, with gorgeous visuals, great story line, lots of lore friendly hints, incredible narrative, charmingly deep characters, challenging combat, dice rolls, engaging dialogues, awesome npcs and the most satisfying turn based combat I've experienced in a videogame. And why is all of that? Because it really feels like the tabletop experience! Great job, Larian. Hats off to you guys.

bought it on Steam when it first released. It's been in early access since, two years i think now, and it's still only released act 1, and they on patch 7. and that's hella bad, it's stupid slow, covid was not the blame, they tried and used it later. The game does not adhere to DnD rules well, in fact it's more a barrel-mancer game from Larian's earlier non-DnD games. it's also a shove fest, he who shoves first, wins. It's also DnD if it was set on Brokeback Mountain. and that was what killed it for me, last time I played they patched to include sausages for weapons. It's way too brokeback for my tastes. and I been DMin DnD since the 80s. DnD right now has the wrong people in charge of everything, and it shows.

According to GOG Galaxy, since buying into early access on the 6th of July, I've played this for approximately 115 hours. Over 100 hours in just under 2 weeks. I'm sold.

Incredible depth, systems, mechanics, world building, story. Baldur's Gate 3 raises the bar. Just get it!

I'm only 4 hours in playing couch split-screen with my daughter and we're both thoroughly enjoying it. We both played DOS and DOS2 split screen previously so we're very familiar with the genre. The choices as to who to play are really difficult as there are so many varied choices. We're loving every minute of it. As for the technical - we had some crashes during character creation even after updating to latest nVidia drivers. What seemed to work best is to have one of use do all the creation to the point of being 'ready' and then the other went through all of their choices. We're playing on a 10+ year old PC (albeit a Falcon NW build) and an 1080TI running Win10 and playing on a 75 inch TV in 1080p the game looks FANTASTIC. After the few crashes during character creation we haven't had any other issues and local split screen play has been great. One more thing, it's probably been said before, but the game is fairly brutal early on (we're on Moderate/normal difficulty) as I died once and nearly a 2nd time if it wasn't for a quick revival. But its all good. And for those who wonder HOW to split a group (like DOS2) where each player has a companion under their control - once you make it to your camp, you can split and group companions amongst the human players so everything is more balanced, instead of one player controlling all companions near the start of the game. Enjoy this game. The bar has been raised!