Baldur's Gate 3

It was worth 60 bucks to play this early edition alone! I am so excited to get the actual release asap! Still exploring different characters, having a hard time with balancing on the Warlock, he just does, and dies, and dies! LOL. I have just started naming him skeleton knight! Love this game!

I am focusing on exactly one aspect of the game, other opinions about current state are all perfectly valid for likes/dislikes from others. What you actually do in this game, in early access with nothing complete, already matters. You can play the early content as good/evil/selfish/lawful as you want and the game and content morph around those choices. For example you can destroy entire areas of the game that in many games would lead to losing out on content, instead in this it opens new and different content. This is fantastic. When content is complete, polished, as long as this excellent depth of agency is maintained this game is quite unique - and to an extent it already is.

As something that is still in development, it is naturally impossible to fully endorse the game. I don't know where the story or the overall design will ultimately end up by the time that process is finished. So I can only tell you what I think of what I've seen so far, which isn't much compared to how much they promise will be in the game overall. Firstly, some have complained that this isn't a "Baldur's Gate Game" or that the title seems inappopriate. I've played a LOT of Baldur's Gate... I've played it all the way through at least once every couple of years since it's been out. To me, much of the dialogue, story, and tone fits well within Bladur's Gate. The artstyle, though a 3D Rendering with (almost excessive) use of cutscened dialogue also feels like it could fit with it's color palet and general design. So far, the two main complaints I would have is as follows: 1. A lack of companion variety. There are two points to this. In Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, one needs to choose up to 5 companions from many more. Here you are given the option to take all the companions available with you; though not all active in your party you can still interact with everyone at camp... this removes the need to choose and shows a smaller amount of characters, thus, lack of variety on two ends. Hopefully this will change, if they have more companions to be picked up later in the game than is currently available. 2. Combat style. This however was never going to be the same. The owners of DnD were never going to allow for DnD 2a rules, let alone the owner of it allowing reusing the old Infinity Engine. It was always going to be different. But while it is different... I can't say it's inferior. The blend of D:OS mechanics and 5th ed rules works well, and it has greater initial variety of tactical options than BG did. Ultimately, if you liked the original BG series for it's story, charm, and tone... I think you'll probably like this too. Now, quickly, GET TO THE HELM.

Buggy, unbalanced, still needs a lot, i mean A LOT of work. Its ok for now. The price is high for what you get, but think of it as an investment, you never know, it may get better and better if they commit to work on it.

I'm enjoying it very much and keep thinking of new reasons to come back to it!