Baldur's Gate 3

I played 60 hours in the first week and loved every minute of it. The world is beautiful, the character models are stunning. The story doesn't have the DOS jokey vibe. It's dark and adult oriented. The combat is refreshing. I know it's EA but i can't wait to get more content. People are complaining of crashes but in 60 hours i might have crashed 4-5 times. So really depends on your setup. I streamed about 55 hours of this. I don't think i have seen a better Early Access game. Not sure why people are complaining. The game will likely release in 2022. Best bang for your buck in 2020-2021-2022.

This game has set a new gold standard in RPGs. Ignore all the negative reviews from early access (esp.2020 and 2021). This game is already changing the industry for the better. It's excellent in all facets.

Beautiful and deep game with actually good voice acting and decisions which matter.

I liked this game a lot. Played through it twice - once as the 'good' guy, once as the 'bad'. Tried it a 3rd time before I got bored and quit. Almost everything here is great: Graphics, sound, interface, gameplay, story. The experience is quite linear, though, so there's no much pulling you back once you've finished. As far as being a BG game... well, it is in the sense that it's D&D, and there's a lot of depth in your party. That's forced on you, because you get to make at most one character and the rest of your party is pre-gen NPCs. Which is a blessing and a curse, because if you like their quirky personalities it's great, and if you can't bloody stand them, well, sucks to be you I guess. Personal preference, but I'd rather be able to make my whole party rather than have NPCs forced on me. The game is capped at level 12, which you'll probably hit when you're only about 2/3 of the way through the game. That's a downer, because a lot of the incentive to explore side quests and just generally do stuff evaporates when there's no more XP reward to be had. My chief complaint is that the game feels very constrained. This is Forgotten Realms, a planet-spanning campaign of sprawling lore. Yet BG3 takes place entirely on a stretch of road leading to Baldur's Gate and a small section of that city. It makes an epic game feel incredibly small. I'd rather they included an overland map and allowed you to explore a larger number of smaller area maps, as opposed to cramming everything into just a handful of large area maps. Sometimes the tiny game area impacts the story's believability, such as when goblins can't find the druid hideout, which is actually just a couple of minutes walk away. But, overall I think this game is worth playing. I'm hoping it spawns some other 5e D&D games that leverage the engine without being sequels, like BG did with Icewind Dale. My current fantasy is that they remake the Pool of Radiance series using the BG3 engine. That would be really cool.

Die Story und das Charakterdesign sind über alle Zweifel erhaben. Darüber wurde mehr als genug geschrieben. Leider - und das ist für mich ein enorm großer Nachteil - kam Larian auf die absurde Idee anstelle des guten und vielschichten Systems ihrer bisherigen Spiele DnD zu nutzen. Das Spiel krankt für mich an allen Ecken und Enden an den Nachteilen von DnD. Ich werde mich duchquälen um die Story erleben zu können, aber im Vergleich zu DoS 1/2 machen mir die Kämpfe keinerlei Spaß. Sie sind leidliches Übel auf dem Weg zur Story.